Ticker for February 5, 2019

                
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Beware of things that go bump in the DAY




Do not clean your glasses. No, your windshield is not dirty...don't bother. And
for goodness sake, if you see skeletal pirates with red glowing eyes burning
through the haze, don't go up and talk to them! Horrible 1980's horror film
reference notwithstanding, things have gotten a bit hazy in the state following
our lovely, windy weekend. Even the Ticker blew it yesterday when walking outside
in the morning and thinking "not bad...we don't need a jacket!" only to be blasted
into oblivion by the marauding cold front. So things, even compared to yesterday
morning, are a bit chillier, relatively speaking, and yes, I can insert more
commas, because, yes, they are awesome! Oh yeah, the 24-hour temperature change
map.



A chilly morning indeed! Stupid front stalled out just south of the Red River,
leaving us on the cold side of the pillow.





And the cold is intensified by the wetness, as the Mesonet's RH map shows how
we are saturated at ground level, thus socked in with clouds.





Now for the excitement...the front will lift to the north tomorrow, giving
parts of the state a chance for severe weather. To the north, which should be
on the cold side of the front, perhaps a bit of frozen precip. We now turn to
our NWS friends in an attempt to shift the blame if...I mean to show us what
could happen tomorrow.





Tornado threat ain't zero, but it ain't big either. After that, a cold Thursday
and a painfully slow warm up through early next week as we await the
inevitability of our next cold front.

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