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Southern Shuffle
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Did ya know that the actor who played Chunk--Jeff Cohen--had chicken pox on the day they shot "The Truffle Shuffle" pictured above, and he was so scared they would re-cast the role that he showed up anyway. You can actually see the blisters on his belly and chest if you look closely. See, I DON'T want you to look closely at the rain forecast, since it continues to shift south as feared...especially if you live in northern Oklahoma, which I'm fearing might get a big GOOSE EGG this go around. Even the heavy rain advisory from WPC is farther south.
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I've attempted to put together the graphical forecasts both the Tulsa and Norman NWS offices put together for this weekend into early next week. As both have cautioned, these could definitely change as we get closer to the event itself. Oh yeah, and I was never very good at puzzles. Sorry, didn't see such a forecast from NWS Amarillo for the Panhandle, nor from Shreveport for McCurtain County.
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We often say that we need a good tropical system to get us out of drought at times, and while this "thing" that hit the coast last week as a low pressure system never amounted to much in the way of tropical storm formation, it will move over us as a mid-level trough this weekend and tap into deep moisture flow from the Gulf of Mexico (and bring some upper-level moisture from the Pacific with it) to produce the possible heavy rains being forecast.
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And we are in the midst of a lovely cool down from the unbearable (well, to some...I beared it but I never "bared" it) heat of the past 2 months. We will be hot again today and tomorrow before we go back to early fall mode with lots of gray skies and rain with temps in the 70s and 80s.
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We should struggle to get out of the 80s over the next week after Sunday's big cool down, at least. Still seeing cooler and wetter than normal weather to end August. September doesn't look hot and dry like July and the first 3 weeks of August, at least. Or does it?
Say, did ya know that Jeff Cohen later became an entertainment lawyer?
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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