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Laura if you will
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Sorry. Much like Ray in "Ghostbusters," I went with the first Laura that popped into my head. Now who among you (of a certain age) can forget Half-Pint and Ma and Pa, and those other two sisters whose names I can't think of right now? But most of all, this was a chance to finally meme Nellie Olson, who was right up there with the Malachi Brothers (how dare they use the Malachi Crunch on Pinky Tuscadero in that demolition derby...Google it, youngsters!) as my most hated childhood TV villians. I rooted for JR, by the way. Oh, that smug Bobby Ewing and his lustrous head of hair.
Okay, now that I've totally lost anybody born after the 1980s, let's get into the meat of the matter. It now appears that even with a somewhat historic brush with two near-simultaneous tropical systems impacting the Gulf region over the next several days, the impacts to the bulk of Oklahoma will be minimized. The southeastern edge of Oklahoma could definitely see some impacts from tropical storm Laura (forecast to become a hurricane), but tropical storm Marco's chances appear nil.
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The 7-day rain forecast reflects the abrupt cutoff of the tropical impacts from east to west, with far southeastern OK possibly seeing 3+ inches of rain, and drought plagued western OK seeing just above a sprinkle.
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Yeesh. Yeah, that's gonna leave a mark. We already have drought intensifying across western OK, and the heat is going to remain with us for at least the rest of this week. Now there is some hint of some relief with our first fall cold front next week. I say first FALL front because for us weather types, fall starts on September 1. There have definitely been some fall-ish type fronts earlier in August, of course, but let's get technical for no apparent reason for a bit. This front could possibly enter the state a week from now and bring our temperatures down to below normal once again, and bring some much needed rain chances. This is just now starting to show up on the long-range forecasts. That's both good and bad...good that it's at least showing up, but bad because that gives the pattern lots of time to change.
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Some of the long-range models are starting to reflect this as well.
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Keep in mind the chances that a cold front is draped across the state at exactly 7am on Sept. 1 are about the same as me buying a new comb, but you at least get the idea. No, not that I'm bald! The idea is the pattern might finally be changing again and we can get a nice cold front and increased precip chances for more of the state.
I think there's a chance. Even Nellie Olson reformed and became nice later on.
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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