MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... August 21, 2023 August 21, 2023 August 21, 2023 August 21, 2023
Melted face anyone?
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My family yesterday: "You gonna try and mow the lawn again in the heat like last week?"
Me: "NO!"
Them: "Good, even you aren't stupid enough to try that again."
Me: "The heck if I ain't! it just hasn't grown any since last week."
HA! That'll teach 'em. Oh, I get the disrespect, but hey say it lovingly (I mean knowingly).
I'm gonna say something that might shock you, especially you long-time Ticker readers, but I'm fed up enough it needs to be said:
I'm really looking forward to the new "Roadhouse" movie. I KNOW I KNOW...nobody can take Patrick Swayze's place. His Dalton was both a modern day philosopher AND a buttkicker. But I'd like to see Jake Gyllenhall's take on the character, even if I can't spell his name.
Oh, something even more shocking? I'm tired of the heat. Yes, me, the infamous heat lover (and we all know just how painful that can be), fed up, exasperated, tired, worn out, with this heat. Remember how Hannibal Lecter yearned for a view? Well, I yearn for a cold front (no cannibalism required, although I am willing to learn). Doesn't have to be a biggie, just something to bring us back down to normal. And no humidity, please.
For the second time in a week, our Mesonet site at Oilton has broken the network record maximum dewpoint, uhhhhh, record, with an 84.81 yesterday, just 7 days after it had broken it the first time with an 84.61.
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And that nasty soup helped give us TWO sites with a 125 heat index yesterday, at Okmulgee and Webbers Falls.
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And if the heat index didn't get ya, the actual air temps did.
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Didya know that Grandfield tied the all-time highest temperature ever recorded in the state for the dates of Aug. 17 (114F) and Aug. 18 (112F)? And didya know we should be on the lookout for the same thing today? 112F is the value to beat from Mangum back in 1984.
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https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20230821/todays-forecast-highs.png
Consider this weather cemented in at least through Saturday when we MIGHT get a cold front in here that brings us down to normal'ish heat.
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Here's the deal though...that might not happen. It COULD happen, but when I went to go through the models to see if there was any difference in the air behind it, some of them didn't have it coming through our area, getting shut down just to our north. So for now, let's say this is a lot like an emergency bathroom visit after eating Taco Bell...probable but not definite.
Rain? No. Just no. In fact (maybe fiction), we might not have significant rain chances through the first week of September. Good chances of above normal temperatures, though.
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Our flash drought continues to intensify across southern Oklahoma.
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I wonder if it's cool on Anthrax Island today?
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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