MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... June 4, 2015 June 4, 2015 June 4, 2015 June 4, 2015
Ain't it sweet!
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20150604/emergency-drought-test.jpg
(by the way, if you're too young to understand what a test pattern is...get a haircut and go find a job!)
This is the Emergency Drought Broadcasting System. Due to the complete lack of drought in the state of Oklahoma
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20150604/20150602_OK_trd.png
we will be signing off from this station until we are needed again. It's been a long haul, with 239 straight weeks of having at least D1 (Moderate) drought somewhere within the state of Oklahoma's borders, all the way back to October 26, 2010, some 1673 days ago.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20150604/20101026_ok_trd.png
Sure, there's still so D0 (Abnormally Dry) conditions out there in the NW, and you can see why when you look at the rainfall maps. Those areas in the far NW and western Panhandle just haven't gotten quite the same amounts as other parts of the state
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20150604/90day-rainfall.png
but they've gotten enough to eradicate the more detrimental short- and long-term drought impacts. Here are a few pics from out in Cimarron County in the far western Panhandle sent to us from a reader. No color re-touches here...it is a weird shade of green for that part of the state. Here you'll see the before and after pics showing the change from May 2013 vs. May 2015.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20150604/july.2013-1.jpg http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20150604/july.2013-2.jpg
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20150604/may.2015-1.jpg http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20150604/may.2015.2.jpg
I will admit I have gotten a bit alarmed by the abrupt end of the rain after I have gushed so much about how El Nino is upon us (even though its influence starts to die out pretty quickly as we enter summer) and I think THIS round of relief is different than others. The rainfall maps since May 31 are a bit bleak, after all. That's only 5 days, but that's sort of unusual for this part of spring, especially after the pattern we just exited from.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20150604/may31-june4-totals.png
BUT...the 7-day rainfall forecast is starting to light us up again.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20150604/7day-rainfall-forecast.gif
This looks more like a middle-of-next-week sort of deal, but it doesn't appear to be the deluges of May either. But enough to give us some reinforcements from that rain. Other than that, it's just gonna be plain old hot, with high temperatures 5- to sometimes more than 10-degrees above normal. Humid, too, so it will obviously feel a bit muggy out there. We are up to 2 straight days with highs at or above 90 across western Oklahoma, so I guess we can watch this map's numbers go higher and higher for a bit longer.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20150604/tmax.ge90_streak.png
So that's it. Welcome to the doldrums (for awhile). Nothing exciting to talk about today, like drought or flooding or tornadoes or hail or severe winds or...
Ain't it sweet!
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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