Ticker for September 5, 2000

                
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Some Relief for Eastern Oklahoma

A cold front has advanced into much of eastern and central Oklahoma,
knocking temperatures down into low-to-mid 90s in those areas.
Waurika's 3:15pm temperature of 98 F may seem hot, but it's a full
twelve degrees cooler than yesterday at that time.

Many locations in eastern Oklahoma also received some desperately-
needed rainfall this morning.  Eight Mesonet stations observed a
quarter-inch or more (hey, it's not much, but we'll take it):

Claremore  0.45"
Porter     0.36"
Wilburton  0.31"
Haskell    0.31"
Eufaula    0.30"
Stigler    0.29"
Nowata     0.27"
Talihina   0.27"


Yesterday's Highs: Brutal

Yesterday's high temperatures were the hottest of the season.  Here
are selected values from the Oklahoma Mesonet.

Walters    112 F
Grandfield 111 F
Waurika    111 F
Antlers    110 F
Talihina   110 F
Cloudy     110 F
Bessie     110 F
Clayton    109 F
Butler     109 F
Hollis     109 F


Streaks Continue

The streaks of days over 100 F and days without significant rainfall
continued through the long weekend.

Consecutive days over 100 F (through Monday):
Broken Bow:  current streak 20 days (streak began August 16th)
Antlers:     current streak 21 days (streak began August 15th)
Burneyville: current streak 21 days (streak began August 15th)
Cloudy:      current streak 21 days (streak began August 15th)
Ringling:    current streak 26 days (streak began August 10th)
Clayton:     current streak 33 days (streak began August  3rd)
*Grandfield:  current streak 34 days (streak began August  2nd)
Walters:     current streak 34 days (streak began August  2nd)
Waurika:     current streak 34 days (streak began August  2nd)

*- Grandfield observed a high of 103 at 12:30 pm today


Consecutive days without at least 0.1" rainfall (through Monday):
Tipton:     68 days since 0.86" fell on June 28th
Altus:      65 days since 0.68" fell on July  1st
Hollis:     53 days since 0.37" fell on July 13th
Mangum:     53 days since 0.27" fell on July 13th
Broken Bow: 44 days since 0.49" fell on July 22nd
Cloudy:     44 days since 0.97" fell on July 22nd
Hugo:       44 days since 1.20" fell on July 22nd
Lahoma:     44 days since 1.10" fell on July 22nd
Mt. Herman: 44 days since 0.52" fell on July 22nd
Ringling:   44 days since 0.28" fell on July 22nd
Slapout:    44 days since 0.44" fell on July 22nd
Apache:     41 days since 0.39" fell on July 25th
Guthrie:    41 days since 0.26" fell on July 25th