Ticker for May 5, 2023

                
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Glub Glub




Not a lot to Tock about today on what I'm hearing people call the "sink of mayo."
I mean, gross, right? Now if it was a sink of mustard, then I'm with ya. But we
had more than a sink full of rain yesterday in some parts...even saw a flash
flood watch for central OK yesterday, and today the western half of the state is
encased in a moisture-laden fog.







And as you can see above, our droughty-to-rainy pattern seems right on track as
we head into mid-May. The rainy outlook extends all the way out through the end
of next week, so hopefully we can continue to deal the drought a death by a
thousand rains before summer moves in, which given that it's Oklahoma, that could
happen any day now.

Like today?



And if not today, tomorrow?



Ya see, I know many of you root for those disgusting freezing temperatures, and
I root for those triple-digit temperatures just as much. I'm thinking today
might be the day we finally populate this map.



COME ON ALTUS! LET'S GO MANGUM!

Think about this, though...a sink of Cherry Pop-Tarts.

NOW we're talking.

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