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February 2, 2018 February 2, 2018 February 2, 2018 February 2, 2018
It's Bigfoot Day!
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20180202/bigfoot.day.png
Yes, it's that annual but futile ritual (no, not me looking at my hairline) where
we go down southeast around Durant (DOO-RANT for you out-of-staters) and search
for Bigfoot. Once we coax the big fella out, we check to see if he sees his
shadow. Personally I think he just gets online and looks at the CPC Drought
Outlook.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20180202/month_drought.png
BUT, Bigfoot did see his shadow this morning, thus predicting 6 more weeks of
drought, at least. The 7-day precipitation forecast and the medium-range outlooks
certainly seem to back him up, at least for the next couple of weeks.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20180202/7day-precip-forecast.gif
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20180202/feb7-11-precip-outlook.gif
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20180202/feb9-15-precip-outlook.gif
Others would say he's just thinking about persistence...it's been dry so long,
the climate pattern is just sort of "stuck" in that mode.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20180202/mesonet.rainfall.tenthinch.png
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20180202/mesonet.rainfall.quarterinch.png
Let's let old Mr. Sasquatch go back to roost now.
By the way, he eats groundhogs for breakfast.
Gary McManus
State Climatologist
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climatological Survey
(405) 325-2253
gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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