Ticker for June 29, 2007

                
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June 2007 Now Wettest on Record

(This segment of today's Ticker is borrowed from the pen/keyboard
of OCS's Gary McManus. The data were current as of 1:30 pm today.)

It?s no small feat to break a statewide average monthly rainfall
record, especially during Oklahoma?s primary wet season of April
through June. According to preliminary data from the Oklahoma
Mesonet, however, that is exactly what has occurred. With one day
remaining in the month, the statewide average rainfall total
currently stands at 8.59". That breaks the old record of 8.55",
set a year after statehood in 1907. Normal statewide average
rainfall for June is 4.26".  The record will be eclipsed even
further with heavy rainfall expected to continue into the month?s
final day.

Central Oklahoma remains the big winner during the month with
an average rainfall of 12.34", nearly triple their normal amount
of 4.57". The northeast and southwest are also in double-digit
territory with 10.20" and 10.51", respectively. The Oklahoma
Mesonet site at Medicine Park has the month?s top total thus far
with 17.15". Apache?s 16.67" shatters their old record ? for any
month ? of 15.09" from June 1932.

For the year thus far, Oklahoma?s statewide average rainfall
stands at 25.14", 6.13" above normal and the 11th wettest such
period since 1895. The total for all of 2006 was 28.59".


In Case You Were Wondering ...

The wettest month in Oklahoma history is October 1941, when an
average of 11.32" fell across the state.