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How bout July?




Well that about covers severe weather season if you ask me. Nobody did, but I have
the mic. Errr, pen. Errrr, keyboard. Over the last three days we've had more than
a dozen tornadoes, grapefruit size hail, and enough rain to last for the rest of
May (at least some of us...more on that later, or with me "moron" that later).





ZOUNDS! Between the two storm systems, parts of east central OK have received
8-12 inches of rainfall, with Haskell leading the way at 11.4 inches. ZOUNDS!, part
2...between the 2 storms, Kenton received a paltry 0.04 inches. In the main body of
the state, somehow despite a slew of severe storms last night, Grandfield managed
to eek out a paltry hundredth of an inch?



Here are the so-called winners and losers from the last two storms.

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Top 10 "Winners" and "losers"

Mesonet Site     Rainfall (inches)
Haskell              11.40
Porter                8.84
Okmulgee              8.26
Bristow               8.24
Hectorville           8.02
...
Erick                 0.09
Eva                   0.06
Goodwell              0.05
Kenton                0.04
Grandfield            0.01
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A hundredth of an inch? Are you kidding me (I said something else there, but
it's not fit to print)?? Looking at the last 30 days, it gives us a pretty
darned good picture of places where drought remains strong, and where it is
fading.







Now what rain fell after Tuesday morning has not been factored into these maps,
obviously, so we will get a better looking drought map next week, at least
for some.





The problem for those folks in western OK is that we are going to go from
an early spring type feel today to downright summer in 48 hours. The real
heat starts on Saturday and lasts through early next week.



We will approach record high values this weekend, especially on Sunday and
Monday.



Oh yeah, it's still raining now! Just in the wrong places, mostly.



There is even a bit down close to Frederick. They're dangerously close to going
from a hundredth of an inch to...TWO hundredths of an inch.

Gary McManus
State Climatologist
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climatological Survey
gmcmanus@mesonet.org