MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... August 19, 2020 August 19, 2020 August 19, 2020 August 19, 2020
Septgust?
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200819/todays-lows.png
Uhhhh, lows in the 50s? We'll take it! I know it was mostly 60s, but those 50s pop out at ya. Heck, that's almost football weather (although football weather this season could be anything from summer, fall, winter or late spring)! That's a far cry from what we would "normally" see for mid-August, but Oklahoma's "normal" weather is made up of tons of normally abnormal weather. And this isn't quite THAT amazing, considering we had a slew of 50s for lows during the first week of August. But we have short memories when it comes to weather in Oklahoma, especially in the dog days of summer (and winter as far as that goes) when the heat and humidity seem to stretch on endlessly. And some of these lows actually encroached on record territory!
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200819/aug19-record-lows.png
The 54 at Bristow is just one off it's record low for the day of 53, set back in 1950, and Miami's 55 is just 2 degrees off their record (again, back in 1950). That must have been some morning back in 1950, 70 years ago. Wow, just typing that 1950 was 70 years ago makes my bones hurt.
At any rate, we should always enjoy extremes on the cool side in the summer, just like we should enjoy extremes on the warm side in the summer, because the bill always comes due soon, and Mother Nature has one heck of a collection agency. The heat will be back by this weekend. Now the key is whether that humidity will be back as well, because that sticky weather is the worst. Right now we're sitting pretty with dewpoints in the 50s and 60s, which helped those temperatures drop into similar territory last night.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200819/current-dewpoints.png
It doesn't look like we'll be getting back to those unbearable conditions we saw earlier with dewpoints staying in the 70s with even some low 80s, and heat index values in the 110 territory. But it will be hot nonetheless.
We're on the downward slide for temperatures, dewpoints, heat index, the State Climatologist's hairline (I hear ya talking out there), but that's "normally" speaking. It's the peaks and valleys you have to watch out for.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200819/2020-temperature-trace.png
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200819/2020-dewpoint-trace.png
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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