Ticker for August 23, 1999

                
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Avoiding the Obvious for the Moment ...

There's a lot going on in the weather today!  Hurricane Bret made
landfall along the south Texas gulf coast last night, and a cold
front is prompting showers in Oklahoma this morning.

All of this fun weather is great, but the Ticker would like to
present a subtlety from this morning's Mesonet data.  A quick look
at the 24-hour temperature change map shows the effect of an
approaching cold (well, for August, anyway) front on a summer night:



Dew points near 70 F and enhanced southerly winds mean warmer
overnight and morning temperatures, and that's exactly what the
graphic shows.  A well-defined nose of warmer morning temperatures
(sompared to yesterday) is easily discernible on the warm side of
front.  For reference here was the weather map at that time:



The eastern half of the state may get some relief
with a frontal passage this afternoon, but they paid their dues
this morning!