I hope you enjoyed the change in our weather last week. I for one found it refreshing. Although I’m bummed Summer is wrapping up, I will not miss those 100-degree temperatures at all! So the highlights for this week are that those comfortable temperatures are here to stay and severe weather is back in the…
We made it! Finally! No more 100s and very few 90s are left for the year. This week brings not only cooler weather but also the return of much needed rainfall. The Jetstream pattern is going to become active again and kick through upper-level disturbances in a westerly flow that will gradually shift to a…
Now that the brutal heat week is over, it’s time to cool our jets with surface high-pressure building in from the northnortheast. This will keep us slightly cooler this week with mostly 90s. There won’t be any significant rain in the state this week, unfortunately. While we see an uneventful week heading into our Labor…
There’s only a week or so left in August. Summer has been giving us hell for the past few days and will continue for a few more. Our high temperatures yesterday were some of the hottest across the state with a few records blown thanks to the lower humidity, aka dry heat! Remember to take…
The past 48 hours have brought more rainfall to parts of Oklahoma. In some cases, flash flooding due to the slow movement of storms. That’s typically for late Summer and they also come with damaging wind. The recent rain and that of a week ago have helped to keep the drought negligible across most of…
Last week was our typical hot and dry summer. This week will be no different through Friday. Then the upper ridge backs off and a few weak cool fronts try to work their way in, bringing a few showers or storms. Rinse and repeat is the motto this week. We’ll see lots of 90s and…
As we wrap up July, our weather pattern will shift to a more normal one. That means more heat and less rain. Ah welcome to summer in Oklahoma. Last week we saw a lot of beneficial rain to help ease the drought conditions in that part of the state. The new update for the drought…
We remain in a NW flow aloft as the big ridge of high pressure remains anchored across the SW US. It will expand east a hair Tuesday and Wednesday this week allowing temperatures to climb back to near 100 degrees for some. Heat index values won’t be as oppressive this week compared to last, and…
It’s MCS season! (Mesoscale Convective System) A fancy term to highlight large complexes of storms that form off the Rockies and travel in a SE movement towards Oklahoma. They bring with them torrential rainfall and occasional wind, rarely hail. We’ll be in this pattern for a while. So you can expect rain moving through the…
The last week of June is going to make us pay for the reasonable temperatures and repeated rainfall we’ve received over the course of the month. An upper-level ridge will grow across Texas and nudge into Oklahoma. This will shift the storm track to the north and bring in hot air off the Mexican plateau….