Ticker for November 8, 2024

                
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Heck!




Are ya ready, are ya ready for this, are you hanging on the edge of your seat?

Another drought bites the dust!

I don't know if those are actual song lyrics, but they're bouncing around in my
head (there's a lot of empty space in there!) and I thought I'd use 'em. Doesn't
matter if they're wrong because nobody reads Friday Tickers anyway. Same goes
for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thrusday. My proof?

THERE IS NO "THRUSDAY!" See, somebody would have corrected me if they were reading.
Anyway, drought is becoming more and more of a memory (sort of like my last comb)
with each drop that falls. Big droughts end in floods in Oklahoma, after all.



With the big rains over the last couple of days (big snows for you folks in
Cimarron County), November's statewide average is up to 5.12 inches, which if
November ended today I'd be really sad because I don't remember Thanksgiving,
but also that would already rank as the 9th- (ninth- to you pedantics) wettest
November since records began in 1895.

-***-
Nov. 2015   6.05"
Nov. 2004   5.96"
Nov. 1992   5.57"
Nov. 1902   5.48"
Nov. 1994   5.47"
Nov. 1946   5.46"
Nov. 1996   5.32"
Nov. 1964   5.18"
Nov. 2024   5.12" (AND COUNTING with 22 days still to go)
-****-

We still have an inch or two to go across the state, although some of this
forecast rainfall has already, uhhhhhh....fallen.



I mentioned snow (CALM DOWN!! For Cimarron County!), well they're getting
pounded in the western Panhandle. They're sorta in the snow-rain transition
zone, but how about another foot of snow if they keep those temperatures down?
Kenton has already had 16" of snow (for crying out loud!)!





Here's a pic from Black Mesa YESTERDAY when they just had about 7" of snow.



It's okay to salivate over snow. You want some? Move to the western Panhandle.
They have plenty of room.

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