Oklahoma Weather Discussion - January 2013

[damonsmuz]

Looks like some serious cold air is moving in next week. Anyone surprised? Im not!

[bandnerd]

Aaron Tuttle posted a picture of a model projecting ~12" of snow on Wed/Thurs of this week.

Glad to see that everyone else is saying about 52-55 and sunny on those days. I think I'll pay attention to the majority on this one.

[venture]

Looks like some serious cold air is moving in next week. Anyone surprised? Im not!

Indeed. Cold air with this week should just make it easier for the next batch to slide in. Though I doubt we see anything extremely cold. Of course my opinion of that is a little different than others here. Where I grew up air temps of 10 below and 40 below wind chills were pretty common. LOL

[venture]

Glad to see that everyone else is saying about 52-55 and sunny on those days. I think I'll pay attention to the majority on this one.

Maybe he is auditioning for Morgan's new sidekick. They need more for the hype machine over there.

[ou48A]

Channel 5 just mentioned they are watching for the possibility of a snow storm.
Along with a very significant cold snap next week.

[venture]

Couple different runs to compare the temp forecasts...

18Z: TwisterData.com | GFS 2 M ABOVE GROUND TMPF Forecast

12Z: TwisterData.com | GFS 2 M ABOVE GROUND TMPF Forecast

As for any snow storm...right now it looks like 3 out of 16 ensemble members for the GFS are showing any precip this week.

[Anonymous.]

Arkansas into the Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys have been spoiled this season.. They have been getting an onslaught of winter storms for quite some time now. They were hit with ice and sleet today, will get an ice storm tomorrow, then later this week get a snow storm.


Why can't Oklahoma get any fun!?

>:[

[catch22]

As I work outside all day, I am perfectly okay with no huge winter storms or regularly occurring precipitation.

[Plutonic Panda]

As I work outside all day, I am perfectly okay with no huge winter storms or regularly occurring precipitation.

Well if we got a winter storm, you wouldn't have to work outside. Capiche? lol jk

[catch22]

Well if we got a winter storm, you wouldn't have to work outside. Capiche? lol jk

Actually, I would still have to. We only shut down if air to ground lightning is within 5 miles. Or if there is freezing fog.

[Plutonic Panda]

Actually, I would still have to. We only shut down if air to ground lightning is within 5 miles. Or if there is freezing fog.

Ah, I see. Well stop being selfish and think everyone else instead yourself. lol Just kidding

[catch22]

Ah, I see. Well stop being selfish and think everyone else instead yourself. lol Just kidding

Until you've done this from 5am-noon in 35mph north winds with heavy snow and hardly any breaks, you will continue to enjoy your winter precipitation.

[Plutonic Panda]

Oh my. Yeah I could see why you wouldn't want any wintery precip lol..

[Bill Robertson]

Yep, catch22. I'm in a similar situation. I'm the building & grounds manager for CBP Air Training. Our ramp, taxiway, drives and walks have to be plowed, shoveled and de-iced no matter what. Missions must go on. That's why I always hope against nasty winter weather. On the day after Christmas in 2009 I had to try three or four different routes to even get here. But my crew and I did and we got our place cleaned off. Don't EVER want to do that again.

[ou48A]

As a person who worked outside in the energy business in extreme weather for several years I can appreciate the hardship that it is.
Very few people who have never worked in the extremes for several years have a good perspective of how this impacts the human body.
As I have grown older I’m very thankful that I no longer work out side in the extreme weather.

[Bill Robertson]

As a person who worked outside in the energy business in extreme weather for several years I can appreciate the hardship that it is.
Very few people who have never worked in the extremes for several years have a good perspective of how this impacts the human body.
As I have grown older I’m very thankful that I no longer work out side in the extreme weather.

Exactly. And I've pretty much been in the office for the past 20 years or so. The only time I'm out in it is winter weather so I'm not acclimated anymore.

[Anonymous.]

Boring weather on the horizon until about the last few days of January into Feb.

[Uncle Slayton]

Can we declare winter over or what? I'm seriously looking at putting out an early garden if there's not even a hint of wretched weather in the offing.

[bandnerd]

Can we declare winter over or what? I'm seriously looking at putting out an early garden if there's not even a hint of wretched weather in the offing.

As soon as you do that, you know we'll get a major ice storm or something. It's like when you wash your car, it rains. Maybe we should all wash our cars more often. Or plant a garden early.

If you want to start a garden, then start seeds indoors. It'll give you that gardening feeling, but the plants will be safer and you won't have to start all over if it does get icy/snowy/bad weather.

[venture]

I really don't see any major cold snaps for the next couple of weeks. Doesn't look like we will have more than a week of winter we already did. LOL

[Plutonic Panda]

Getting reeeeeaaaaaal tired of all this crap! No snow! No rain! No Dust storms! No tornados! No hailstorms! Man, If I ever get my hands on a weather control machine. lolz

[Easy180]

What happened to Damon Lane's predictions? Lol

[ou48A]

Jed Castles KWTV 9 OKC
Indicated on his noon WX forecast that we had a chance of rain in about 9 or 10 days but nothing was showing up before that.

[venture]

If we just look at the 12Z morning run for GFS...the precip chances look like this:

Sunday Jan 27th - Light, < 0.10"
Monday/Tuesday Jan 28/29 - Northern OK over 0.5", Eastern OK over 0.5", less than a 0.5" for Central and SW OK. Side note for this...NW OK could be all snow for this, so might not be so boring looking outside for them.
Monday Feb 4th - Light
Tuesday Feb 5th - Better chance mainly Northern 2/3rds of OK

[damonsmuz]

What happened to Damon Lane's predictions? Lol

Which one?