General Weather Discussion - July 2014

[venture]

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[venture]

Sorry for the delay! Dang work distracting me.

[Hollywood]

No worries... no excitement here seeing the projected 100 for tomorrow.

[bandnerd]

Yeah, looks like the heat dome has finally descended upon us.

[iambecoming]

Bring on fall soon please. Summer blows.

[Achilleslastand]

Bring on fall soon please. Summer blows.

Amen to that brother.........

[Plutonic Panda]

I am enjoying it. I even liked the 110s... It can stay as long as it wants to for me

[Achilleslastand]

I am enjoying it. I even liked the 110s... It can stay as long as it wants to for me

Im sending you a one way ticket to Vegas then..............But please no gambling.

[venture]

I am enjoying it. I even liked the 110s... It can stay as long as it wants to for me

Silence! :-P

Anywho. Looking at the GFS tonight. Ridge breaks down and moves back west as a trough continues to did down for rain chances the middle of this week. Ridge then builds back in by Friday but then get squished back to the SW US by early next week. We then enter another mid week period of northwest flow and storm chances. After the 19th then it looks like we'll be in store for the first real establishment of the "ridge o death" with the jetstream going mostly zonal over the northern US. Though another west coast trough may form as well that will mush the ridge down by the end of the month.

We'll see. I'll have no problem with my last Oklahoma summer being not as hot as past ones.

[SoonerDave]

Silence! :-P

Anywho. Looking at the GFS tonight. Ridge breaks down and moves back west as a trough continues to did down for rain chances the middle of this week. Ridge then builds back in by Friday but then get squished back to the SW US by early next week. We then enter another mid week period of northwest flow and storm chances. After the 19th then it looks like we'll be in store for the first real establishment of the "ridge o death" with the jetstream going mostly zonal over the northern US. Though another west coast trough may form as well that will mush the ridge down by the end of the month.

We'll see. I'll have no problem with my last Oklahoma summer being not as hot as past ones.

Wait, hold it, did I miss something?!? You leaving, Dave?

[venture]

Wait, hold it, did I miss something?!? You leaving, Dave?

Ummm errr ahhh...hey look a squirrel!

Not to totally derail the thread, but indeed I am. However, I will always be around here like I am now. So that won't change. Just some opportunities arose that are going to allow us to move closer to my family and other friends back north. Still a few months out (house isn't on the market yet), but the countdown clock is ticking.

[PennyQuilts]

Ummm errr ahhh...hey look a squirrel!

Not to totally derail the thread, but indeed I am. However, I will always be around here like I am now. So that won't change. Just some opportunities arose that are going to allow us to move closer to my family and other friends back north. Still a few months out (house isn't on the market yet), but the countdown clock is ticking.

We will miss you and please don't forget us but I am so very happy and excited for you! If it isn't a secret - what part of up north is home?

[Plutonic Panda]

Im sending you a one way ticket to Vegas then..............But please no gambling.

can I at least get some hookers then? Maybe a trip to the M&M factory

[Plutonic Panda]

Silence! :-P

Anywho. Looking at the GFS tonight. Ridge breaks down and moves back west as a trough continues to did down for rain chances the middle of this week. Ridge then builds back in by Friday but then get squished back to the SW US by early next week. We then enter another mid week period of northwest flow and storm chances. After the 19th then it looks like we'll be in store for the first real establishment of the "ridge o death" with the jetstream going mostly zonal over the northern US. Though another west coast trough may form as well that will mush the ridge down by the end of the month.

We'll see. I'll have no problem with my last Oklahoma summer being not as hot as past ones.

haha.... I hear you. Good luck moving back north. I am moving to L.A. early next year... I've been scouting a few areas, but nothing set in stone yet. I want to live more in a desert area... but the location and traffic will be an issue with that.

[Achilleslastand]

can I at least get some hookers then? Maybe a trip to the M&M factory

O heck ya....
A trip to Glitter Gulch and Hoover Dam will be included.

[venture]

Band of storms erupting over much of the state from NW through C into SE OK. Heavy rain, gusty winds, and small hail the main threats.

[Achilleslastand]

Nice bit of rain here in NW sides of the metro.

[Anonymous.]

3+ inches over most of OKC area. Nice little pickup for July.

[OkieHornet]

what's the outlook for the rest of the day/evening?

with the senior open going on and a willie nelson concert at the zoo, lots of people will be outside today/tonight.

[Hollywood]

Even with the agony of poison ivy, that rain brought some of the best sleep I'd had in awhile. Up yours ridge of death.

[PennyQuilts]

Even with the agony of poison ivy, that rain brought some of the best sleep I'd had in awhile. Up yours ridge of death.

My sympathies on the poison ivy. Up yours to that, too!

[Bunty]

Last night's rain provided quite another stand out example how Oklahoma City doesn't get bypassed when a storm system decides to act up. Some places picked up around 3 or 4 inches:

[venture]

Unfortunately it looks like the rain is coming to an end. Most of it is south of I-40 now. Slight chances for more rain tonight, but best chances will be NE of of the metro area.

[bchris02]

OKC pretty much picked up its entire July average in one night.

[ljbab728]

Now I'm seeing reports of any even stronger cold front coming in next week with the possibility of more substantial rain. Can't beat that for the middle of July.