MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... September 25, 2024 September 25, 2024 September 25, 2024 September 25, 2024
Pulverized
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240925/mothership.png
Okayyyyy, that's about enough billion dollar disasters for awhile. Well, I don't really know if it was a billion dollar disaster, but to me if you have golf ball to baseball size hail over about 40-50 miles, that seems like that would cost a lot to repair.
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240925/yesterday.png
And while we're at it, why is it "golf ball" but baseball is "baseball?" Why isn't it "golfball?"
At least some folks over in eastern Oklahoma got some decent rain SANS spherical frozen missiles of roof and windshield death.
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240925/rainrfc.12hr.png
As is sometimes (often? usually?) the case due to the convective nature (hey, "Convective Nature" was my band's name in the French Foreign Legion!) of our precipitation, it can come with bad things too. So now we hope for even MORE rain from the remnants of tropical storm--soon to be hurricane--Helene, which will bring the Gulf Coast loads of misery over the next 72 hours. it does look like Helene will become a Major Hurricane of at least Cat-3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, meaning winds of 111-129 mph. SUSTAINED winds. Personally, I'd prefer a Cat-3 on the Homer-Simpson scale, which would mean 111-129 jelly-filled donuts.
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240925/09L_tracks_latest.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240925/cone.png
Oh, you want a yikes? Well here's a YIKES!
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240925/thurs-7pm.png
As for us, though...it appears the chances of seeing significant rainfall from the remnants of Helene are getting a bit slim. In fact, slim for the next couple of weeks in general.
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240925/7day-rain-forecast.png
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240925/oct2-8-precip-outlook.png
We could definitely use the rain, preferably WITHOUT the spherical frozen missiles of roof and windshield death, please.
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climate Survey gmcmanus@ou.edu
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