Ditto. I knew the family of someone killed that winter by a drunk driver on New Year's Eve out near Mustang. I was a few years older than you in '78 it sounds like, I was actually working and was just dumbfounded by that particular winter. It felt like living in Buffalo, NY.
It's true.... I paid attention to those things back then. And by a lot I mean probably about a dozen nights below zero.... Far north central Oklahoma was a lot colder than OKC in part because the ice / snow pack was deeper with about 5 inches of dense sleet topped off with several light snows. I can remember it being – 28 below in southern Kansas where they had an even deeper ice / snow pack.
As most here know there isn't near as much modification of air as it plunges south when the ground has ice / snow cover and the deeper it is the less modification occurs. Under these conditions when the wind is out of the north the cold air feeds on its self kind of like drought feeds on its self.
Gary England would sometimes call this the snow plains effect.
This is the only time that I am aware of ice fishing in Oklahoma.
I drove down to OKC and Norman that winter just as the streets and sidewalks had cleared off.... We had ice covered residential streets for about another 30 days.
I road in a car with 3 friends to a new years party that night in what was the worst sleet storm I have ever seen even to this day.... (about 5 inches) It was cold enough that night that we had to keep scraping off the inside of the car windows. My dad and I put chains on 3 of our vehicles the next day.
00Z GFS run only brings and area of generally 1-3" of snow through central OK on Tuesday. Things are still jumping around a bit though, so nothing is set in stone.
I am very tired of arctic front's and snow. This weather is killing me. I'm so ready for spring.
May get clipped by passing snow showers later today as another weak system moves by mostly to the south.
South of I40 looks to be best bet for any of this snow. But it could creep up, just have to watch radar trends..
On to next week. This is what we have so far, a lot of inconsistency:
NAM puts main snow north of OK.
GFS puts main snow in eastern OK and into N AR.
GEM puts main snow through center of OK.
Baseball season supposedly starts at OU a week from today in Norman.
We’re going to need a major snow melting warm up.
What approximate time does the snow move into the metro area today,if it does in fact move in? Anyone have a clue?
Major snow melting warm up? The can come out right now and the snow will melt. It's not like we have to get into the 50s to melt what is out there right now. LOL
Most of the accumulating snow is going to stay over SE OK. There really isn't going to be much to really worry about over us today.
12Z GFS eliminates much of the potential for any precip here in Central OK next week. We'll see if we get a "snap back" in the models as we get with in 72 hours.
Any updates worth mentioning?
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12Z NAM has maybe 1-2 inches now for the area early next week. 12Z GFS did have a southerly solution a few runs ago and then when really dry and now it has a northerly solution. Still generally 1-3" across the area. Hopefully by tonight we have a good idea as things start to shape up.
NAM coming back on board with a narrow, but decently heavy snow band across OK, mainly along I-40 corridor.
GFS is about the same last few runs, but keeps flopping on where it wants to put the band.
GEM has been sticking with the band through C OK for the last couple days, but moving it slightly further north and south. Right now GEM has it just north of I-40 corridor.
No weather updates today?
18Z Models are coming together some now. Looks like 2 waves of precip. First is going to be North of I-40 and probably north of the metro area overall. 1-3" of snow in most cases in a bad over Northern OK to EC OK. Then Wave 2 comes up from the SW and will bring another round of light snow from SW to SE OK - again, missing most of the metro area. A general 1-2" with that wave as it passes through.
Right now looks like OKC proper and much of the metro area will have maybe some flurries or scattered light snow but next to no accumulation worth anything. It then appears we'll be locked back into a dry spell for the next couple of weeks. Some chances for some precip in those two weeks, but for now trends have kept it all east. Temps will start to warm later this week and fire danger will also increase.
Hi temps are supposed to be well into the 60s on Sat. and Sun.
Bring on the sun! I wish that didn't mean fire danger, but dang...I'm getting depressed from all the grayness outside :/ I'm ready to see my daffodils and hyacinths break ground.
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Trying to non rev out on Tuesday. Let's hope this completely misses Oklahoma.
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