Ticker for June 3, 1998

                
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A Day of Contrasts
Heat continues in the south and southeast, with near 100 F temps as of
2:00 pm today.  Walters and Grandfield have eclipsed 100 F for the seventh
day in a row, and Tipton is on the verge of doing the same (99 F at 2:00).

A sharp cold front has releived the northern third of the state.
Temperatures in the panhandle and extreme northwest have been in the
50s and 60s since nighttime hours.

At 1:00 pm today, the temperature at Hooker had dropped **41 degrees F**
since 1:00 pm yesterday.

A statewide map of 24-hour temperature change is updated every 15 minutes
at the Mesonet Subscribers' Data Page:




Fire Danger Indices
The hot, gusty conditions of the past six days in the southwest have taken
their toll on the Oklahoma Fire Danger Model Burning Index.  The 11:00 am
Burning Index (BI) image shows a region of heightened BI in the southwest.




The Fire Danger Model runs five times per day, and the latest model output
is always available at

http://agweather.mesonet.org/fire/data.html#gifs