Ticker for September 14, 2009

                
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Hi! I'm Associate State Climatologist Gary McManus. You might remember me from
such Tickers as "Hey, it sure has rained a lot in July!" or "Hey, it sure has
rained a lot in August!" Well, why mess with a good thing, sooooooooo...

"Hey, it sure has rained a lot in September!"

September normally begins Oklahoma's secondary rainy season, although that seems
to have started a couple of months ago. But the upper-low from down low that has
inched northward from Texas and the stalled front that crept southward from
Kansas has continued our rainy ways of this summer (or fall, if you are a
climatologist) over the weekend.

In fact, aided by this weekend's storm, the first 14 days of September (it hath
30, remember) are the 13th wettest statewide since 1921. The biggest totals have
come in south central Oklahoma and the northeast. The majority of those hefty
totals in northeastern Oklahoma came before this weekend.




Go back to July 1 and the stats are even more impressive. The July 1-September 14
statewide average precipitation total is 10.62 inches, 3.36 inches above normal
and the 9th wettest such period since 1921. A few dry spots here and there
through that period, especially around Buffalo (GO BISON!) which has had a
measly 3 inches of rain.




This weekend's storm (and it's still raining in some places) had some
impressive totals. A top-20 for Friday through Monday at 11:30am from the
Oklahoma Mesonet:

NEWP	4.41		CLAY	3.30
FITT	4.35		OKEM	3.30
HOBA	3.90		GRA2	3.21
RING	3.81		LANE	3.16
BESS	3.78		SULP	3.12
ARD2	3.70		WIST	3.12
WAUR	3.70		EUFA	3.11
CHER	3.58		TALI	3.06
KETC	3.39		BURN	3.04
ELRE	3.38		CENT	3.02


Gary McManus
Associate State Climatologist
Oklahoma Climatological Survey
(405) 325-2253