Ticker for April 27, 2023

                
MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ...
April 27, 2023     April 27, 2023     April 27, 2023     April 27, 2023


Droughtius Reductus!




You love to see it, right?

What is "Things Gary's mirror will never say, Alex?"

But the entire state at LEAST in the blue, but a lot and lot of dark green (and
even some yellers here and there, for totals eclipsing the 4" mark). Annndddd...
heck, it's raining right now for crying out loud!



And look at the transformation of these maps!









And these!













Yes, there are still some pretty big deficits, but a lot of those short-term
drought impacts will be alleviated. The biggest of which we should now see a
pretty nice statewide green up once the sun comes back along with a little bit
of heat. And that will mean an end to our prolonged critical-to-extreme fire
danger for awhile.

THIS image of our relative greenness will get much better.



AND this image, which was left with status quo for this week in anticipation
of the rain. There will be some decent improvements (well would you rather
have INDECENT ones??) on next week's Drought Monitor map.



And here's the kicker...we ain't done with the rainfall! There will be another
storm system sliding down this way from the NW that will provide another bout of
rain from Friday into Saturday.



This important reinforcing rainfall should help up those totals a bit more for
added drought relief. It might come with a bit of severe weather tomorrow, but
mostly confined to far south central OK, so stay alert!









It's a long march (no, not March...that's over) back to respectable spring
temperatures, but we'll get there eventually.



Still waiting on the Ticker to get back to respectable. We'll get there
eventually?

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