Ticker for March 12, 2003

                
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What a Difference The Day Makes

Yesterday's Mesonet high/low map shows wonderfully mild high temps
across Oklahoma, except for north-central Oklahoma, which struggled
to break 50:



A quick look at the Mesonet's daily solar radiation accumulation
reveals the culprit.  While most of the state soaked in 15 or more
mega-Joules or more of the Sun, north-central Oklahoma remained
below a deck of cloudiness.  Here are yesterday's least sunny
stations in the network:

(By the way, it wasn't all bad in north-central OK.  The entire
Ticker staff watched a wintering bald eagle strut his stuff for ten
minutes in a water puddle near the Blackwell Mesonet site)

1 Medford    3.8 MJ
2 Newkirk    4.2 MJ
3 Blackwell  4.5 MJ
4 Foraker    5.3 MJ
5 Red Rock   5.9 MJ
6 Perkins    6.0 MJ
7 Lahoma     6.2 MJ
8 Burbank    6.3 MJ
9 Guthrie    6.6 MJ
10 Stillwater 6.6 MJ