Ticker for October 18, 2022

                
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Sing it Rick!




Yes, look at Rick in all his gloryyyyyyy...think on the words, you will hear these
words all dayyyyyy:

"Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and
desert you."

See his sway to the music as you are lulled into the ether. Use your imagination
to see summer returning. Yes, you are preparing to go to the pool, your flip-flips
clopping on the sidewalk...

BOOM! Back to reality. And a harsh wintry reality it is, with our first WIDESPREAD
freeze of the season. The freezing weather reached all the way to the Red River!



All it takes under clear skies and light winds is just a little extra oomph when
the sun comes up as its rays just hit the surface, disturbing that cold pool of
air close to the ground up to the height of the temperature sensor, and you get
a brief tough of freezing.  That's what we saw at Burneyville as they reached
a frigid but albeit brief 30 degrees.



And this will be the coldest day we've seen since March, with highs only
reaching the 40s in NE OK. Also coldest morning since March, maybe, if we can
see lows dip into the teens. It could happen! Who predicted Burneyville to drop
to 30? I thought so!



Almost the entire state has been placed under freeze watches and warnings for
tomorrow.



We do warm up after that, and highs tomorrow should recover into the 60s and 70s
for most of us. Eastern OK, being closer to the center of cold air out East,
will linger in the 50s.



I don't know what else to tell you...the cold weather is terrible. You have to
agree because I'm tying this and you ain't. In fact:

"And everybody reading agreed that cold weather is really bad and warm weather
is really really good."

Agreed, everybody!

Only thing else to do is to relax and make do until this whole cold craze
passes us by.

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