Ticker for March 15, 2024

                
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The Clash




Cold air is Rocking the Camargo. I Fought the Winter and the winter won. Spring is
asking "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"

Okay, enough punk rock weather. Although yesterday the weather across the NW
half of the state rocked, while the SE half got punked. Or maybe the other way
around considering the SE half actually got rocked with decent rainfall, whilst
the NW half got punked with more dry weather.



I'm going with the former, because with all that hail, I'd say the SE half got the
short end of the insurance claims.



There will be a chance of rain later today into tomorrow, but it will be
confined to the far southern counties, it appears.



For a lot of Oklahomans, this is the beginning of Spring Break (although for
many more Oklahomans, this is merely Friday, March 15). For those staycationing,
this weekend will be a bit on the cool side and a bit gray, but conditions
improve starting the actual week of Spring Break until rain chances return in
time for next weekend.



Hey, we've seen much worse spring break weather in these here parts! Snow, ice,
tornadoes (one year in the 1990s we saw all of that in one day during spring
break!).

Okay, I should go before I stay.

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