We’ve enjoyed a lot of sunshine for the last day of July; not to mention unseasonably cooler highs in the 80’s. The unseasonably cool weather will continue into the weekend as showers and storms return.
The severe weather threat looks low for Saturday. Storms during the morning into the early afternoon don’t have the sunshine to increase the [...]
Take a look at some of these clips of close lightning strikes. It is big reminder of how dangourus and powerful a single lightning strike can be.
Ross Ellet
July is now coming to an end and the weather stats are in…to sum it up in a few words, it was a cool and wet month compared to normal. After an early monthly heat wave an unseasonable cool air mass carved its way into our area and didn’t let go. Here are the monthly [...]
Well you had to know the September like weather couldn’t last forever. The dog days of summer will return and soon…and just like the cool and wet pattern as of late has lasted a couple of weeks so will the sizzling weather. The heat up will begin next week with the worst of it cranking [...]
Deja vu returns to the forecast. Today we’ve dealt with a vigorous upper level wave that has sparked off the showers and storms. Now the computer models are hinting at a similar wave for late Friday night into Saturday morning!
Here’s the 500 mb flow for Saturday. I have highlighted the disturbance aloft that will act as the trigger additional [...]
There’s still a good chance of some heavy rain in this morning, but the severe threat will be non-existent. A large cluster of showers and isolated storms are currently moving through Central Oklahoma and heading towards the viewing area for later this morning. The timing of the rain will be tough due to the fact [...]
The hottest time of the year climatologically across eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas takes place between July21st and August 12th. This is where we average the hottest temperatures of the year. Here are the averages for the end of July…..
It’s hard to believe that Thursday, July 30thwill feel more like October with highs in the [...]
We are in a very busy pattern this week with more heavy rain and strong storms expected overnight tonight and tomorrow, but this morning we are tracking another form of mother nature, birds. Swarms of birds normally take off from their nest around sunrise and spread outward looking for food. Depending on the atmospheric setup these [...]
We will be under a slight risk of severe weather today and early tomorrow morning. There will be a threat of very heavy rain, lightning, hail and and some damaging winds. There will even be a small and I stress small tornado threat in Southeast Oklahoma. Here is a look at the latest update on [...]
The computer models have been targeting a very heavy rainfall event for late Wednesday night into Thursday morning. A strong upper level wave moving out of the northwest will act as a trigger for overnight showers and storms for Thursday morning.
This cold front above will drape itself across the area on Wednesday. This front will serve [...]
