MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... October 24, 2023 October 24, 2023 October 24, 2023 October 24, 2023
Subtropical fun
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The Ticker is officially off again today but I had to Tick this morning to Tock about the remnants of Norma, FINALLY arriving after all the talk and FINALLY breaking our rain embargo, otherwise known as flash drought. At least for much of southern OK. The rain totals are increasing even as I type.
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At the very least, it's good to see these maps being reset.
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And remember, this is one of three storms visiting the state over the next 5 or 6 days. Oh what the heck, let's call it 7 just in case. So those rainfall totals are gonna be going up even more after today's rain.
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Unfortunately, not all will enjoy those larger amounts with the northwest and Panhandle being largely (relatively speaking, which is an odd way to speak--try it for yourself and find out) left out, but then again not all will "enjoy" those large amounts if it leads to flooding.
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The risk for flooding will continue with our second storm moving through late tonight through Thursday morning as those soils become saturated from the Norma remnants moisture.
Also as we noted yesterday, a big change is coming for this weekend with a more widespread (and hard) freeze, more moisture, and the possibility of frozen precip for NW OK. The outlooks for the end of the month and early November give those hints for our first bigtime arctic cold front, a veritable Blue Norther. No, I don't know what "veritable" means, but I used it anyway.
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By the way, Blue Norther was my band's name in seminary school (which I flunked out of for drinking all the sacramental grape juice).
Hey, did you know that 40 years ago, Norma's Uncle Tico made a visit from nearly the same spot in the Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, bringing Oklahoma some of its worst flooding in its history? Yep, in 1983 Hurricane Tico made the same journey north and interacted with a stalled cold front, dumping as much as 16.95 inches of rainfall in Chickasha over a two-day period. Former Ticker writer extraordinaire and now Chief of the U.S. climate branch NCEI wrote about Tico's visit back in our 2008 seasonal summary. I've captured the pages here.
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Luckily, no stalled front over us right now, so we'll get breaks in the action as the storm systems roll through.
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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