MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... April 22, 2021 April 22, 2021 April 22, 2021 April 22, 2021
To hail with this
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Yes, it's another Ticker where I substitute common words for curse words in a display of sophomoric (more like junior high) humor. It was either that or a Star Trek "HAILING FREQUENCIES OPEN" meme. Dang, I should have gone with that! Anyway, fresh off our widespread freeze yesterday, we had a few holdovers this morning. Eva decided to come in with a ridiculous 25 degrees, and various others across NW and NE Oklahoma also fell to the freezing mark.
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Now we go back to our regularly scheduled spring starting tomorrow with another of THOSE days in Oklahoma. We'll have a dryline to our west and a surge of moisture coming our way. With enough daytime heating, we will see the possibility of storms developing tomorrow afternoon, and with that comes the chance for the normal spring severe weather modes (including tornadoes, which looks like a low chance for now, but not zero).
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More than 24 hours out so of course you'll want to stay weather aware and check with your favorite media and local NWS sources tomorrow leading up to the possible event. Then we look ahead to a nice warm weekend (probably be windy... ain't it always?) and our next chance for severe weather next Tuesday. Not to be alarming (OMG!!!...just kidding), but seeing SPC throw up a 15% risk on day 6 is a BIT alarming. It could REALLY be one of THOSE days (where I RANDOMLY capitalize WORDS in MY Ticker).
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The cool weather has largely kept severe weather contained thus far this spring, but as that cool weather goes away, we'll see more chances for big severe days.
Speaking of severe, we still have problems with severe drought across south central and central OK, as well as the far western Panhandle.
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This is another area where the cool weather has aided us. If we had seen lots of hot, windy days as we often do during April, the deficits we see over the last 30 days or so would have meant more drought expansion and intensification.
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Since we are into late April by now, the chance for rain will come with storms most of the time. So be it. There are some big rains forecast over the next week with Friday and Tuesday's storm systems, but most of that will depend on where the dryline is, where storms possibly initiate along that dryline (if at all), and how soon those storms transform into a squall line (if at all), filling in the gaps. As is often the case with these types of storms, western OK will spend more time BEHIND the dryline than ahead of it, with more discrete storms when they initiate, so less rain for them.
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Lots can change between now and then...even tomorrow, but we will now need to start watching northwestern OK where the moisture has become scarce over the last month.
Watch for not only spring to come rushing back this weekend, but early summer as well as we get into next week.
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Who's ready? I'm ready. You ready? Helen Reddy. Helen's ready? She better be...here comes spring!
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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