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MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... June 17, 2024 June 17, 2024 June 17, 2024 June 17, 2024 Inside Out Drought https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240617/7day-rain-forecast.png Don't look now... https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240617/hideous.png I TOLD YOU NOT TO LOOK! I literally wrote (get it?) "Don't look now," but you still looked, and you have nobody to blame but yourself. UNFROSTED strawberry Pop-Tarts...ugh. Here's another thing to not look at, since I have your stomach in knots...are we seeing the development of another flash drought episode in Oklahoma, which would be our third in the last three summers? The rainfall maps are getting ugly (and not getting much help from this week's rainfall). https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240617/mesonet.rainfall.tenthinch.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240617/mesonet.rainfall.quarterinch.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240617/30day-rain-totals.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240617/del30day_rain.current.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240617/pct30day_rain.current.png Right, so we're going about 2 weeks without a significant dose of moisture for most of the state, and even longer in a few areas. Shorter in a few others. Add that unfortunate statistic(s) to our recent heat wave, and things start to get a bit worrisome. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240617/tmax.ge90_streak.png Plus, here comes the wind to do some more damage. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240617/windy-monday.png The good news is we're not in flash drought yet. We still have pretty good soil moisture reserves, although our friend Anxiety is whispering to us that that can disappear pretty quickly this time of year. NW OK is looking sorta serious NOW, however. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240617/16inch-pct-avail-water.png Anxiety is all talk, right? Well, all THOUGHT, but we need rain, badly. Or goodly. Pick your adverb, depending on your perspective. It doesn't look like we'll get much help from that tropical wave/depression/storm (or whatever ends up forming), as it's forecast to stay to out south. We might get enough moisture up this way for some showers, but it doesn't look like any widespread impacts, except some nasty humidity, maybe. We will see those temperatures calm down for a few days coming up, but then we go right back to the frying pan. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240617/two_atl_2d0.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240617/nws-norman-7day-temps.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240617/june22-26-temp-outlook.png I don't want to deal with another flash drought. You don't want to deal with another flash drought. We don't want to deal with another flash drought. Still...better than tornadoes, no? And UNFROSTED Strawberry Pop-Tarts. Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey gmcmanus@ou.edu ================================================== The OCS/Mesonet Ticker https://ticker.mesonet.org/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from the Ticker or for questions about the Ticker or its content Phone or Email the Ticker Manager at OCS Phone: 405-325-2253 Email: ticker@mesonet.org --------------------------------------------------- -C- Copyright 2024 Oklahoma Climatological Survey ===================================================