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Halvsies
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My Tuesday mornings are usually reserved for my Mensa meetings. I told them they would have to find somebody else to clean the bathrooms this morning because we have big weather happening.
A friend of mine had a trip to Tampa Bay next Saturday and asked me for some resources to track it. I told him "Yeah, you might want to postpone that trip." It certainly appears that Tampa Bay has the possibility for a catastrophic hit by a possible major hurricane. Lot's of "possibles" there, but we're still a ways out and those things like to wobble.
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Yikes! All that scary language, and in reality the storm surge could be the most devastating part of the storm. Would this scare ya, from the Tampa Bay area NWS OFFICE:
- LATEST LOCAL FORECAST: Life-threatening storm surge possible - Peak Storm Surge Inundation: The potential for 7-10 feet above ground somewhere within surge prone areas - Window of concern: Begins this evening
- THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY THAT INCLUDES TYPICAL FORECAST UNCERTAINTY IN TRACK, SIZE AND INTENSITY: Potential for storm surge flooding greater than 9 feet above ground - The storm surge threat has increased from the previous assessment. - PLAN: Plan for extreme life-threatening storm surge flooding greater than 9 feet above ground. - PREPARE: Evacuation efforts should soon be brought to completion before driving conditions become unsafe. - ACT: Leave immediately if evacuation orders are given for your area to avoid being cut off from emergency services or needlessly risk lives.
- POTENTIAL IMPACTS: Devastating to Catastrophic - 3 FT surge above high tide floods beaches in barrier islands. - 4 FT surge above high tide floods Matlacha and cuts off causeway to Pine Island. - 4 FT surge above high tide cuts off the causeway to Sanibel. - 4 FT surge above high tide floods much of Bokeelia and ST James City. - 5 FT surge above high tide begins to submerge Cape Coral and Fort Myers west of U.S. 41 and south of Daniels Parkway.
YIKES YIKES YIKES!
Now we feel for those folks, this is obviously one of those storms, at least it appears to be early on, that could change things forever down that way. All that being said, darned if we wouldn't take about half that rainfall distributed in a nice timely manner over the next month.
Sure, and I'd like to be buying lots of combs and brushes for myself, too. Life isn't that easy, obviously. So while Florida and then up the East Coast deals with Ian, we deal with whatever it is you want to call what we have: lots of high pressure, NW flow cutting off the Gulf moisture, and endless sunny skies with no chance of rain.
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I keep showing the same maps over and over, but I hope that eventually we'll see a change somewhere down the road. It doesn't look like any changes are happening soon, at least through the first week or so of October. So we might as well learn to live with it, and it's not bad temperature-wise, to tell the truth. We have nice cool mornings that require a jacket, then deliciously warm and afternoons with lots of dry air making it feel even nicer. Just look at yesterday's highs vs. the maximum heat index values.
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Those lower heat index values vs. the actual air temperatures are simply a consequence of that dry air being more efficient at evaporating your sweat, which is a cooling process for your body. That's what sweat is for, after all. Nice design feature, right? Now as we go forward, our drought is going to get worse and worse. Even now, we have the second worst topsoil conditions in the U.S., behind our good friends in Montana.
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So while we send our prayers down to the Southeast, we also say them for our area. Catastrophe is catastrophe, after all.
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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