Ticker for September 25, 2024

                
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Pulverized




Okayyyyy, that's about enough billion dollar disasters for awhile. Well, I don't
really know if it was a billion dollar disaster, but to me if you have golf ball
to baseball size hail over about 40-50 miles, that seems like that would cost a
lot to repair.



And while we're at it, why is it "golf ball" but baseball is "baseball?" Why isn't
it "golfball?"

At least some folks over in eastern Oklahoma got some decent rain SANS spherical
frozen missiles of roof and windshield death.



As is sometimes (often? usually?) the case due to the convective nature (hey,
"Convective Nature" was my band's name in the French Foreign Legion!) of our
precipitation, it can come with bad things too. So now we hope for even MORE
rain from the remnants of tropical storm--soon to be hurricane--Helene, which
will bring the Gulf Coast loads of misery over the next 72 hours. it does look
like Helene will become a Major Hurricane of at least Cat-3 on the Saffir-Simpson
scale, meaning winds of 111-129 mph. SUSTAINED winds. Personally, I'd prefer
a Cat-3 on the Homer-Simpson scale, which would mean 111-129 jelly-filled
donuts.





Oh, you want a yikes? Well here's a YIKES!



As for us, though...it appears the chances of seeing significant rainfall from
the remnants of Helene are getting a bit slim. In fact, slim for the next
couple of weeks in general.





We could definitely use the rain, preferably WITHOUT the spherical
frozen missiles of roof and windshield death, please.

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