Ticker for March 26, 2019

                
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The Spring Club




HA! Only a fool of an Okie would have counted winter out already this year.

Oh yeah, well I happen to like winter!

Well how long have you lived here? Have you no sense of history, man?

Doesn't matter, the longer I live the more I hate winter and yearn for spring
(i.e., summer).

Well how's that working out for ya?

About as well as this bit of arguing with myself? Don't blame me if I have
spring fever, given the forecast highs I see coming up this week. 70s? 80s (if
only they had capital numbers, I'd have used them on "80s"!).







However, it is okay to lament/hate/cringe at another strong cold front for this
weekend, arriving Friday night (along with a chance for severe weather, but
that's a Ticker for a later Tocker).







And then as you saw with the last graphic, we'll have a chance for a freeze
across the northern half of the state on Sunday morning, maybe a frost a bit
farther south from there. But lament not (well, go ahead), because the average
date of the last freeze is quickly approaching for much of the state.



That might not necessarily happen, of course. It IS Oklahoma, after all. Freezes
have occurred well into April, and closer to June than April in the Panhandle.



Nevertheless, spring (i.e., summer!) temperatures are right around the corner.
Now to finish our assignment.

Dear Mother Nature,

We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole 3 months of warm weather for
whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an
essay telling you what we think of winter. You see winter as you want to
see winter, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what
we found out is that WINTER REALLY STINKS. Does that answer your question?

Sincerely yours, The Spring Club.

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