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February 22, 2019 February 22, 2019 February 22, 2019 February 22, 2019
Thar she blows!
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20190222/windy-saturday.png
Yeah yeah yeah, chance of storms tomorrow in the eastern Oklahoma, chance of snow
in the Panhandle, turning colder middle of next week, blah blah blah.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20190222/nws-tulsa-saturday.png
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20190222/nws-amarillo-snow.png
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20190222/nws-norman-temperatures.png
That's a typical day this time of year in Oklahoma. What's not typical, although
we are sort of infamous for it, is the wind we're expecting tomorrow. As I awoke
this morning and perused the forecast discussions of our local NWS offices, as
I do every morning, this caught my eye from the fine folks at NWS Tulsa:
"This will set the stage for a classic big wind gust setup due to
momentum transfer, most likely across NE OK and far NW AR...If the GFS
is right, our houses would blow away."
Uhhhhh, what? Okay, I get the hyperbole to make the point, but I'm not in favor
of a real life "The Three Little Pigs" scenario. And then NWS Norman added to
the excitement with this:
"Could see gusts approaching 60 mph across southwest Oklahoma and
western north Texas and a High Wind Watch has been issued for this
potential. A bit of concern does exist with latest GFS showing
stronger winds even into central sections of Oklahoma."
For the folks out across western Oklahoma, these types of winds happen quite
often (well, often enough) with the passing of synoptic systems behind drylines.
You can often (There's that word again! Have you been out there after a storm
system has passed??) see winds of 50-60 mph for nearly an entire day. But
it's a bit more unusual (less oftener??) to see it in central and northeast
Oklahoma. Certainly not unheard of, but not something we're as used to.
So we'll have to see just how far those 50-60 mph gusts extend into the eastern
two-thirds of the state. Right now there is a high wind warning for southwestern
Oklahoma.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20190222/latest.oklahoma.winds.gif
But as the NWS forecasters mentioned, there will almost certainly be more
high wind alerts issued for tomorrow as that storm system tracks across the
state. Batten down the hatches. Hatten down the batches. Men, keep your kilts
cinched tight. For the ladies, I'd suggest the same. Odd that you'd choose to
wear kilts, but who am I to judge?
Gary McManus
State Climatologist
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climatological Survey
(405) 325-2253
gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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