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Thank you sir, may I have another!




Just what the doctor ordered (NO, NO MORE DOCTORS!), two more days of SPRING IN
JANUARY here in Oklahoma, and today looks like it could be the warmest day yet!
And tomorrow doesn't look too bad either.



Oh, trust me, I know there are folks out there that would rather go back to this:



Remember what Neo said to the machines on that phone call at the end of "The
Matrix?" You know, before they destroyed the series with the next two...I mean,
three, movies? Here's an annotated version to you machines out there that love
the cold weather.

"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid (of winter
ending)...you're afraid of change. I don't know the future (I'm a climatologist,
I tell you what happens AFTER). I didn't come here to tell you how this is going
to end (with spring). I came here to tell you how it's going to begin."

Well, it begins like this! What we see today, and tomorrow. And then the
inexorable (I got a thesa...thesur...a book that tells me synonyms and antonyms
for Christmas!) march towards...errr, March (and spring).

Follow the black line, and get your tank tops ready!



Yeah, it's gonna be February soon, and I've probably just guaranteed a frigid
second half of the month, and that's okay because I don't see much cold air
coming for the first half.





Cranky? Maybe I am, but going back through January and its nonsense (ice storms,
blizzard warnings, freezing fog of all things for crying out loud!), I'm ready
for spring. I'm ready for today!

Back to Neo: "I'm going to show them a world without you (winter), a world
without (snow) and (ice), without borders or boundaries, a world where anything
is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.”

Actually, it's not a choice. Spring for a couple of days in March, then straight
to summer.

Hey, I know Kung Fu!

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