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Drought takes a licking


But keeps on ticking (you have to read the title of today's Ticker for this to
make sense. But of course the Ticker rarely makes sense so why bother? Anyway,
I showed you on Tuesday that the rains fell mainly on the plains of western
Oklahoma and largely missed the areas most impacted by continued drought.



It did rain a bit after that, but the gist of the picture remains the same. So
not only did we see very little in the way of drought relief in those hard hit
areas, we actually saw some intensification in SE OK. Here is today's new
Drought Monitor map, as well as a one-week change map.




The reasoning remains sound. Despite the welcome moisture, the short- and long-
term rainfall statistics still look rather sad. For example, the 30-day statistics
are downright droughty.





After today's cold start, and yesterday's frigid beginning, expect a bit of a
warmup before another cold front strikes for the weekend. Following that,
another warmup will last throughout much of next week.







Unfortunately, the rain chances for the next 7 days are nil-to-none. A very
mean looking 7-day rainfall forecast map tells the story (yes, we got our
crayons back).



Let's hope this changes and quick.

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