Ticker for July 12, 1999

                
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Same Concept, New Map

At this point on the calendar last year, the Mangum Mesonet station
had observed temperatures above 95 F on no less than forty-three days
since May 1st.  This year, the number is six.

The complete list can be found at:



Winter-time Wobble Makes July Cameo

In the shallow, dense layer of cold air behind the cold front of late
last week, a couple of Mesonet stations picked up on a phenomenon
the Ticker referenced a few times over the winter.

At the time, in a fit of hasty zeal, the Ticker called the event
a "winter time phenomenon".  Perhaps it would be more appropriate
to refer to it as a "shallow layer of cool/cold air at the surface"
phenomenon.  In its own defense, the Ticker would like to point out
that it is currently the dead of winter in Chile.

Regardless, the phenomenon was captured fairly well at the Waurika
site last night:



Notice the "sloshing" phenomenon in the wind, temperature and
(arguably) the pressure trace came in a tidy one-hour frequency
last night.