Ticker for July 6, 2010

                
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Oklahoma, your own personal sweat lodge

Now that the sun is getting to spend a bit of time with us, and with enough soil
moisture in place to start an Oklahoma rice crop



due to the rains of the past week



even the "mild" temperatures we should be enjoying now



don't really feel all that mild



That was all a very complicated way to say it's steamy outside. What about
the weather for the upcoming week? Well first, the NWS office in Norman has
given us reason to pause with this graphic:



This  scenario featuring tropical moisture, possibly from  tropical storm or
hurricane remnants, has at times in our past led to very heavy rainfalls and
lots of flooding as that moisture interacts with a stalled frontal system.

Farther out into the 6-10 day and 8-14 day outlooks, the Climate Prediction
Center gives Oklahoma an increased chance for above-normal precipitation and
below-normal temperatures:






The above-normal precipitation is a combination of the tropical moisture
increases we've been seeing and the ample soil moisture available for
evaporation (for precipitation purposes). Likewise, the below-normal
emperatures would be expected with additional rainfall and the high soil
moisture values (as the suns rays are used to evaporate that soil moisture
instead of heating the earth's surface).


Gary McManus
Associate State Climatologist
Oklahoma Climatological Survey
(405) 325-2253
gmcmanus@mesonet.org