MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... November 30, 2015 November 30, 2015 November 30, 2015 November 30, 2015
So, what's new?
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Well, some folks wanted winter and they got more than they bargained for. In fact, judging by the, uh, fact, that Governor Fallin declared a state of emergency for all 77 counties, I'd say we all did. If you're one of the lucky 100,000 or so that got your power back (or never lost it), you've seen all the ice pictures you can handle, so I won't add to the misery. Ice thicknesses from what I've seen peaked out over in Caddo, Canadian and west Oklahoma counties from 0.75" or so, with a few reports bigger than that.
Simply put, this was one of the most powerful, juicy storm systems to ever hit the state during November with floods in the southeastern half of the state and massive ice across the NW half. The ice sort of overshadowed the flooding across the SE, but at one point nearly the entire eastern half of the state was under some sort of flood advisory. Hugo led the state during this storm with nearly 10 inches of rain, but amounts from 4-8 inches were widespread across that SE half of the state.
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Keep in mind that some of those gauges across the NW half of the state were coated in over a half-inch of ice, and while much of that area has been above freezing, it will take some time for that ice to melt and register in our un-heated tipping bucket gauges. So the totals you see there are probably a bit of an underestimate. With that understood, we are frighteningly close to having had our wettest November on record, and also right in the range of finally eclipsing 1957 as the wettest YEAR on record. Here are the current estimates for November (with some melting to go).
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Oh so close, just 0.21" away from 2004's 5.96". One thing to remember when we talk about these records is that they are UNOFFICIAL until NCEI (formerly NCDC) releases the official datasets in about a week or so, but our Mesonet numbers are usually fairly close. I think we can safely say that both NE and SC OK easily beat their records for wettest November on record.
As for the year thus far, we now stand at 47.38", again, tantalizingly close to 1957's January-December (so we have a month to go still) statewide total of 47.88". Another 1.5 inches and yet another record will fall.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20151130/jan1-nov30-totals.png http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20151130/jan1-nov30-depart.png http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20151130/jan1-nov30-pct.png If you look on that totals map, you'll see Tishomingo leads the Mesonet during 2015 with 77.1 inches. That in itself is also a record for the Mesonet, besting Broken Bow's 76.61" from 2009. Now we still have a long way to go to top the record for any observing station in Oklahoma. That mark stands at 84.47" from Kiamichi Tower, a COOP observing site in LeFlore County. I'm not sure if Tishiomingo can get another 7" in the next month, but if they, do...well, it won't be pretty.
I have lots of figgering and writing to do for the November summary due tomorrow, but hopefully we'll have a better accounting of just how much rain fell and if we broke any other records. It does look like most of the state will be get above freezing today, and then a bit more mild weather is in store for the state for awhile before our next system hits next weekend. It doesn't appear at this time that it will be nearly as strong as the last system, nor will there be as much cold air with it.
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Winter. Ugh.
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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