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Centurion




100. What a great number. It's the grade I could never get. It's the number of
hairs left on my head. It's the number of seconds you'll wait at a 4-way stop
in Oklahoma (newfangled alternative: the number of times you'll go around in a
roundabout in Oklahoma before you find your street).

It's the minimum speed that should be required to drive in the left lane of the
interstate!

But I digress (and we all know just how painful that can be). Things are pitiful
out in SW OK. Imagine going 100 days without a quarter-inch in a single day where
YOU'RE at. Well, it happens every now and again in western Oklahoma, usually from
late fall into early spring, like in 2017-2018. But in the summer, when the sun's
blazing and the soil moisture is rapidly disappearing? Yuck! And on June 2, when
Mangum's streak started, they had a grand total of 0.3 inches, so not exactly
a gully-washer.







Yikes, so Mangum has had 1.17 inches since the start of climatological summer
way back on June 1? And only one day above 0.25 inches? That's no way to run
a rainfall total. SW OK as a whole had had its 10th-driest June 1-Sept. 10 going
back at least 100 years. Most places in the state are hurting by now, save for
parts of the Panhandle and east central OK.



You can go back to the beginning of the year and it still doesn't get much
better for most of the state.







So when WILL it get better?



Not in the next 7 days it would appear. Maybe later next week. That's what we've
been saying a lot lately..."maybe later next week."

Gary McManus
State Climatologist
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climate Survey
gmcmanus@ou.edu