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Die Hardly




Hans Gruber never said he was a terrorist, now did he? He just wanted that $640
million in bearer bonds. I never said I was a forecaster either, although I have
been known to be golden in some of my prognostications. For example, I was the guy
that cornered he cardboard futures market.

Yes, that's right, I bought cardboard when it was 15 cents/ton. Well, it's now
up to 18 cents/ton, and I have 3 tons of it, sooooo...I have bragged about this
before, you know!

So when I see the possibilities for a big storm system next week, I say it with
a grain of salt (ooooh, I lost bigtime in the salt market!) because weather is
a lot tougher than cardboard. So we can all get excited for a little bit of
different weather possibly coming our way, which would be a continuation of the
exciting weather we've already had (i.e., the wettest November on record and 9
tornadoes for the month).

Every drop of rain we get is a new November rainfall record. Well, once we get
ENOUGH of those drops and tally them up, obviously. We're already up to 6.22"
for the month (eclipsing that old record of 6.05" from 2015). Heck, it's
raining right now for crying out loud!



And there's more on the way over the next 7 days, with a better chance of rain
early next week...and maybe beyond?





Is this real life?

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