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Can't hardly wait




Has anybody tried turning the weather on and off to see if it will fix it? I feel
like maybe it's out of fluid.

Literally!

Rainfall over the last 60- (AKSHUALLY, 30-, 60-, 90-, 120-, and 180-) days has
been downright deficitly disappointing, so bad I'm having to make up words for it!









Things don't look so bad outside of SW OK at that 180-day period, but the rains
of last spring are long gone, used up by plants and us humans (and the rest of
you neanderthals) and/or evaporated by the sun's energy.

The result is, of course, a worsening U.S. Drought Monitor map, which just 3
months ago was completely clear for Oklahoma (again, because of that amazing
spring rainfall).





All of this has left us with dry farm ponds, decimated (if even planted) winter
wheat, lack of pasture for livestock, and desiccated soils across much of
southern Oklahoma.

And there's still no rain in sight for Oklahoma. I mean, if you look out to the
next week, nothing even close.



Maybe things are looking up as we get into the end of next week? Just maybe?
Still looks like it's gonna be warm, however, which doesn't help drought
matters. If that matters.



To me that doesn't look extra helpful to me. We're starting to enter the driest
(now why isn't that word "dryest"???) part of the year, so even getting "above
normal" rainfall doesn't necessarily mean a deluge.

So here we are, starting another dry spell, now approaching two weeks.





Has anybody tried hitting it on its side to see if it will reset?

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