MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... November 2, 2011 November 2, 2011 November 2, 2011 November 2, 2011
Frontpocalypse!
Hope you've been to Braum's to buy your milk and bread today (just previewing that line for our first snow) because the most talked about cold front of this week is currently barreling through the state. Oklahoma has one of the best front trackers in the business with the Mesonet, of course.
Air temperature http://www.mesonet.org/index.php/weather/map/air_temperature/air_temperature
Winds http://www.mesonet.org/index.php/weather/map/wind_map/wind
It's currently close to 40 degrees cooler in the Panhandle than it was yesterday at this time.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20111102/current.TAIR_24H.grad.png
Some of that farther to the east is due to cloudiness, of course. The wind chills are also dropping to BRRRR levels with 18 degrees showing up in the Panhandle.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20111102/current.TAPP.grad.png
Welcome to November. Another big piece of news a bit farther out is the rain event expected for early next week. The NWS' Hydrometeorological Prediction Center has some encouraging words concerning the possible moisture (sorry for the shouting):
"THIS SYSTEM WILL BE WETTER WITH BETTER DYNAMICS ALOFT AND IS ANTICIPATED TO SPREAD HEAVY RAINS TO ITS NORTHEAST FROM OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS THROUGH THE MIDWEST TOWARDS THE GREAT LAKES... EASING DROUGHT CONDITIONS ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS AND PORTIONS OF OKLAHOMA. THIS SYSTEM COULD CAUSE AN OUTBREAK OF STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE SOUTHERN PLAINS INTO THE MID-MISSISSIPPI VALLEY EARLY TO MID NEXT WEEK. STAY TUNED."
Great news except for the severe outbreak, of course, but we need the rain regardless. I received a picture from a relative concerned about the endangerment of the Walleye Rodeo at Canton Lake due to dropping lake levels. Now it's still half a year away, but when you see a lake drop to 27% of capacity, it will give you pause. Here are a couple of the pictures.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20111102/canton1.jpg http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20111102/canton2.jpg
We need to get Oklahoma's lakes and ponds a big drink before spring. Maybe this coming event next week will be a start. So far we've seen little recharge of the reservoirs because the soils are so thirsty.
By the way, I'd think you would want the lake levels to be low in a Walleye Rodeo. Seems like your horse would drown.
Gary McManus Associate State Climatologist Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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