July 2021 - General Weather Discussion

[SEMIweather]

Line of storms should start unzipping any minute now, roughly from Stillwater to Watonga to Elk City. Line as a whole will slowly sink south over the next several hours, with individual cells in it moving ESE.

[Bunty]

Line of storms should start unzipping any minute now, roughly from Stillwater to Watonga to Elk City. Line as a whole will slowly sink south over the next several hours, with individual cells in it moving ESE.

The storm didn't get very bad as it built up over Stillwater. In rained close to 2" in some parts of southwest Stillwater. No high wind or hail here, but the line has some small hail pockets in it. The line is building up strength as it back builds and heads towards OKC.

[kukblue1]

Wall to wall coverage time for severe thunderstorm warning. No other place in the United State would go wall to wall for a Thunderstorm warning. JS SMH

[SEMIweather]

Getting absolutely deluged in Luther right now. Lots of lightning and there was some amazing storm structure before the sun went down, but no real severe threat to speak of here. Maybe some 40 mph winds, no hail.

[Pete]

Something wicked this way comes...

[OKCDrummer77]

Earlier from 50 Penn Place (11th floor)

[kukblue1]

I hear thunder and it's raining. Oh and now my dish box is out. Now it's getting real.

[SEMIweather]

If nothing else, this is one of the nuttiest lightning storms I’ve seen in quite a while. Lots and lots of cloud to ground strikes that are too close for comfort.

[PoliSciGuy]

This strobe lightning has been nonstop for a half hour at least now, insane.

[Timshel]

A couple more pre-storm shots:

[kukblue1]

29 mile per wind gust at will rogers world airport. Wait what exactly are these tv stations going crazy for?

[C_M_25]

I met that line of storms right as I got on I 40 last night out by henryetta. That drive back to the city, after 14 hours in the car already, freaking sucked. It was a cool light show though.

[SEMIweather]

I had to pull off the road on my way back to OKC, as there were multiple CG lightning strikes that had to be a mile away at most, and it was making me very nervous even being in my car.

Also, some shameless self-promotion, got some neat shots while out watching the line form NE of town yesterday, if anyone wants to take a look: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRMSJuYr623/

[Anonymous.]

Decent chance for overnight showers & storms tonight. Best chances are across NE and E OK. Impacts on C OK will be determined by if storms can develop far enough west before the boundary has passed.

Would expect rain around midnight or later.

[PoliSciGuy]

Looks like the end of July is gonna continue the trend of being cooler than average, which I certainly won't complain about. I would love a summer without a stretch of 110 degree days.

https://twitter.com/okmesonet/status...68243054743559

[Anonymous.]

The consistent rainfall has really helped keep moisture in the region, which in turn keeps temps down. Sign me up to get this every summer.

[jn1780]

One state's cooler and wetter weather is another states' drought/hotter weather though. Just right across all 50 states never seems to occur.

[Bunty]

Looks like the end of July is gonna continue the trend of being cooler than average, which I certainly won't complain about. I would love a summer without a stretch of 110 degree days.

https://twitter.com/okmesonet/status...68243054743559

There hasn't been a stretch of 110 degree days since 2012.

[PoliSciGuy]

With the heat index?

[Bunty]

With the heat index?

No.

[mugofbeer]

Looks like the end of July is gonna continue the trend of being cooler than average, which I certainly won't complain about. I would love a summer without a stretch of 110 degree days.

https://twitter.com/okmesonet/status...68243054743559

https://www.weather.gov/oun/climate-okc-heatwave

It's only been 110 or hotter 11 times, ever, since OKC started keeping records. 2011 and 2012 were both horribly hot summers.

[chssooner]

Tomorrow will feel miserable. But a cool down begins this week. Nice!

[BG918]

Yep the recent rains have really upped the humidity. Only downside to relatively frequent summer storms.

[BoulderSooner]

it feels amazing outside now...

[bucktalk]

I was speaking with first time visitors to OKC who said, "you have such amazing summer weather here". I hated to tell them how unusual this summer weather has been for us.