Ticker for January 21, 2000

                
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Okay, Enough is Enough

The winter months are typically dry months in Oklahoma, but that won't
remove the sting of the mounting number of days since significant
rainfall for much of the state.

23 of 114 Mesonet stations have yet to receive a tenth of an inch of
rainfall on one day in the year 2000, and 42 have not received at least
one quarter-inch of rain on one day this year.

The following Mesonet stations have not observed at least a quarter-inch
of rain on one calendar day for forty days or more:

Mesonet Stn    Last Day with >0.25" rainfall
-------------  ------------------------------
Cookson        December 12,   .65"  (40 days)
Durant         December 12,  1.12"  (40 days)
Blackwell      December  9,   .89"  (43 days)
Breckinridge   December  9,  1.37"  (43 days)
Burbank        December  9,  2.35"  (43 days)
Claremore      December  9,  1.50"  (43 days)
Erick          December  9,   .29"  (43 days)
Fairview       December  9,   .93"  (43 days)
Fort Cobb      December  9,  1.02"  (43 days)
Lahoma         December  9,  1.42"  (43 days)
Mangum         December  9,   .51"  (43 days)
Medford        December  9,   .71"  (43 days)
Medicine Park  December  9,   .97"  (43 days)
Minco          December  9,  1.23"  (43 days)
Pawnee         December  9,  1.68"  (43 days)
Perkins        December  9,  1.75"  (43 days)
Putnam         December  9,   .39"  (43 days)
Red Rock       December  9,  1.98"  (43 days)
Retrop         December  9,   .37"  (43 days)
Tipton         December  9,   .93"  (43 days)
Washington     December  9,  1.89"  (43 days)
Wynona         December  9,  1.27"  (43 days)
Ninnekah       December  9,  2.33"  (43 days)
Acme           December  9,  1.84"  (43 days)
Bessie         December  8,   .53"  (44 days)
Cherokee       December  8,   .94"  (44 days)
Woodward       December  6,   .30"  (46 days)
Buffalo        December  4,   .41"  (48 days)
Chickasha      December  4,   .80"  (48 days)
Copan          December  4,  2.19"  (48 days)
Freedom        December  4,   .60"  (48 days)
Hooker         December  4,   .26"  (48 days)
May Ranch      December  4,   .45"  (48 days)