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January 22, 2019 January 22, 2019 January 22, 2019 January 22, 2019
The Winter Father (Part Whatever)
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20190122/Winter.Part.3.png
Oh, you found yesterday refreshing (except for the wind), did ya? All you cold air
fans? Especially you folks out west with all the 60s and 70s? AHA! I thought so.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20190122/yesterdays-highs.png
Well, sorry, back to winter today as we have yet another powerful cold front
moving through, and again with little chance of any wintry excitement. Maybe a bit
of white stuff up north, but not enough to do much.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20190122/nws-tulsa-wintry-weather.png
Nope, just cold cold cold. And with that comes a bit of danger for those out and
about working in it. So here are some safety tips from our friends at the Amarillo
NWS office.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20190122/nws-amarillo-coldWX-safety.png
On the longer time scale, I'd expect more of the same. Brief warm ups with
more frequent cold fronts. Strong ones, usually. We've seen this type of pattern
before, with a large trough of low pressure mired over the East Coast with us
on the western edge. That means with the jet stream often coming over us from
the NW, we get those periodic cold fronts. As the trough meanders back and forth
a bit to the west and to the east, that's when we get a warm up. When it shifts
to the west, we get a bit more cold air.
A sticky pattern, they call it. The medium-range outlooks from CPC appear to
continue this pattern well into next week (and beyond?). Now these maps
weren't interpreted/massaged by human forecasters, so we'll watch for today's
maps for some changes. Doesn't look like much would change, however.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20190122/610temp.new.gif
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20190122/814temp.new.gif
Don't worry, it's January. Save for August, it's possibly the most boring of all
weather months. This is expectable.
Gary McManus
State Climatologist
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climatological Survey
(405) 325-2253
gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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