MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... February 9, 2017 February 9, 2017 February 9, 2017 February 9, 2017
Summer is nigh...for one day
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By the way, why is that first "r" there in "February?" If I was spelling it first, I'd have spelled it "Febyouwary." And why do you have to put the punctuation INSIDE the quotation marks? And also, why are we going to have June temperatures in Feyouwary? CRAZY! Well, not really. It's happened before and I'm sure it will happen again. But this temperature roller coaster ride is playing havoc with not only our wardrobe choices, but our ability to stamp a little drought out here and there. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map shows drought still going strong in Oklahoma, and getting stronger day by day.
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And I warned ya. I told ya it was going to happen. Here's the news in my best Okie-ese: We've done gone to orange on the consecutive days without a quarter-inch and tenth of an inch maps.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170209/mesonet.rainfall.tenthinch.png http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170209/mesonet.rainfall.quarterinch.png
Our big Jan. 13-16 storm system is about to fall off the 30-day rainfall maps and those are going to look pretty scary if we don't get rain soon. Oh, rain soon? Glad you asked. There will be a chance of rain with an upper-level storm system that approaches the state, maybe-possibly, early next week. The trouble with this forecast is that it's a cutoff upper-level low (famously known as "weatherperson's woe" since its difficult for the forecast models to handle. It's out of the obvious flow pattern of the atmosphere (thus, the term "cutoff low." It's doing its own thing. At any rate, there will be a chance of rain coming up, and this follows a strong cold front on Sunday, so there will be a chance of snow-that-melt-before-or-quickly-after-it-hits-the-ground. These forecast amounts have been all over the map...literally, so take them with a grain of salt. Okay, skip the salt in case it doesn't rain.
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Until then, however, we're going to be in Fire Danger City. You know with all that heat, dead/dormant vegetation and strong winds that it was going to pop up. Well, consider it popped.
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If life gives you fire danger, make s'mores? NO! Just don't burn anything outdoors, especially in these counties or you could be subject to...well, I'm sure it's something bad.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170209/BurnBanMap02817A.png
Winter returns Monday. Blah. Don't get used to it though.
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State Climatologist out!
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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