Ticker for June 22, 2022

                
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Amijo




You see, the secret about Dalton is that not only is he a fierce fighter, fluent
in all the pertinent martial arts (can YOU rip a guys larynx out with your claw
hand??), but he's also a philosophicizer (Okie to English translation: philosopher).
He can make women swoon with his devilish good looks (sound familiar, like a
certain State Climatologist...hmmm? hmmm? FINE!), then he can blast the bad guys
with his kung fu grip.

And I thought he would be bigger. I know, right??

But here's the deal...this has nothing to do with the weather, I just wanted to
get my thoughts on perhaps the 36th best movie anti-hero of all time out there.

As for the weather, it's gonna get even hotter through Saturday, then it's gonna
cool down quite considerably for Sunday through early next week following a
pretty stout cold front, then it's probably gonna warm up again but I doubt it's
gonna be as bad as we've seen. At least for awhile.







Now for the good news: it does appear that there will be some pretty decent rains
for PARTS of the state with this cold front, and it just happens to be the part
of the state that needs it the most.



The Panhandle. There will be a bit of rain over the next couple of days out there,
but the big rains come later with the front. They even got some moisture last
night, although it wasn't enough to drench any drought just yet.



All that rain and moisture and associated cloudiness has helped stall a cool
front in NW OK, and the difference shows.



Now one thing we'll be watching (just watching, we're pretty helpless otherwise)
is the possibility of storms firing to our northwest and then conglomerating
into a bigger mass and head this way on northwesterly flow. It's the process
that gave us a lot of our rain earlier in June. I don't think we'll see anything
to the degree of what we had previously, but one can hope. We need to watch
our soil moisture because the sun and wind are starting to take their toll just
a bit.



The weather will be nice until it's not time to be nice. But nice depends on
what you consider nice to be, so I'll leave that phiophosizing up to you to
figure out.

Gary McManus
State Climatologist
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climatological Survey
gmcmanus@ou.edu