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Summer Street




Gary Gekko McManus, "Summer Street":
(strides to the mic, surveying the crowd with a half-smirk)

"The point, ladies and gentlemen, the point is that cold... for lack of a better
word... is bad.

Cold is inefficient. Cold slows down the engine of progress. Cold cracks the
sidewalks, curls the wheat, and makes grown men curse the wind with the
vocabulary of sailors and prophets. Cold in April? That’s not weather. That’s
betrayal.

Now warmth? Warmth is good. Warmth lubricates the gears of happiness. Warmth
is shorts in the afternoon and profits in the soil. Warmth moves product—from
sunscreen to sweet tea. Warmth is certainty, and in this business, certainty is
more valuable than gold.

When it's 28 degrees in Oklahoma in April, cattle huddle like choir boys and
pool salemen get nervous. That's not a system. That's chaos in a necktie. But 78
degrees? That’s optimism. That’s a handshake with the sun. That’s the market
saying, 'We believe again.'

You want to talk about natural cycles? Fine. But don't sell me frost on the
azaleas and call it a correction. That’s a collapse. That’s a glitch in the
algorithm of spring.

So yes—warmth is good. Warmth clarifies, cuts through, and captures the
evolutionary essence of the season.

In the end, warmth—not cold—is what drives this great machine. Because nobody
closes a deal with frost on their breath."

Annnnddddd...scene (feel free to send to the Oscar nominating committee).

Had enough? No, not of the Ticker...of the cold! You can't leave, even though I
subject you to horror show scenes like this:





But you'd also miss the feel-good-movie-of-the-year scenes, like these:





And these:







Now obviously we need more rainfall, especially there in NW OK where an inch or
2 simply wasn't enough to eliminate drought, but those rains will darned sure
perk up that ailing wheat crop, and with the coming warmth, it should go a long
way in finally greening up the dormant vegetation across the state, even up
that way. Now there's not much coming in the next week or so, but give it time.



And watch out for this weekend. Summer's coming, right after our visit from
winter!





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