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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #50 on: June 28, 2021, 08:25:36 PM »
In Stillwater, the heavy part of the storm is taking its slow time getting here as light rain falls.   Meanwhile,  Oklahoma City's storm as of 7pm was looking more impressive:

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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #51 on: June 29, 2021, 05:22:50 PM »
That looks cool as hell Bunty.  [tup]
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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #52 on: July 01, 2021, 02:05:11 AM »
That looks cool as hell Bunty.  [tup]

The TV weatherman in the picture looks like it's worse than cool.  He is Mike Morgan, infamous for telling people of south Oklahoma City on May 31, 2013 to get in your cars and drive south in response to an unusually strong tornado. It led to traffic congestion. TV weathermen on other channels advised people to take cover indoors.  Fortunately, the tornado lifted before it got to south OKC, but not before surprising 3 veteran storm chasers and killing them.  Two of them got sucked out of the car.

On Wednesday at 6pm in Stillwater,  it kind of looked like that picture of OKC, but storm had considerably diminished when it arrived here giving only .01" of rain.  Fortunately, unlike how pictures of it may look, this long rainy spell has only been about the rain and some wind with no big hail or tornados.  Rain has gone over 10" in several locations in central Oklahoma for the most.  The northeast side of Oklahoma County  got so much rain that Lake Arcadia, located near Route 66, got 9 ft. above normal and had to be closed.  For here, it's rained 5.04", while 10 miles south in Perkins it's been 9.11".  As long as Stillwater Creek can adequately drain into the Cimarron River, I don't expect any flooding in the city of Stillwater.

It looks like late Friday the chance of rain will diminish considerably with Sat. being dry and Sunny.  The 4th of July looks the same way with a 20% chance of rain.  Hopefully, the fireworks at Boomer Lake Park, part of lake pictured below, will go on as scheduled.  HAPPY 4th of JULY everybody!
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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #53 on: July 01, 2021, 09:00:21 PM »
On Thursday thru 8pm, it only rained .23" at my station, but in much of Oklahoma City it rained between 1 and 2" on saturated ground.  As a result, at one house in north Oklahoma City, someone's backyard has been eroding away from a creek next to it.


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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #54 on: July 12, 2021, 10:35:49 AM »
For the past two days smoke from wildfires in Ontario has drifted down over parts of the Upper Midwest, giving us hazy sunshine.  The good news is that the smoke is expected to diminish tonight.

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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #55 on: July 13, 2021, 08:49:33 AM »
Must have drifted south because we got it Monday. Made the setting sun a bright  orange color Monday.

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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #56 on: July 15, 2021, 09:11:32 AM »
big tornado day in Iowa yesterday

Lake City Iowa was hit, again. One ran through town in 2015.



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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #57 on: July 26, 2021, 09:36:30 PM »
Photo shows heavy storm over Oklahoma City metro Monday evening.  It rained up to around 2.5" with a flash flood warning issued.  A person on OKC Talk described it as, "In the middle of a pretty wild thunderstorm near Penn Square Mall.  Some of the loudest thunder ever, a torrential downpour and crazy winds straight out of the west, which almost never happens."  And he later added,   "I've received a ton of rain in only about 30 minutes.  What a welcome relief, although the Deep Fork Creek that runs directly behind my house is near the very top of the 15' embankment, where it typically is at a trickle.  The power of all that water is something to behold."

I didn't get under any intense rain cloud here and only had .17".  However, interestingly enough, it did come a heavy rain a mile to the southwest of me in downtown Stillwater, where it suddenly rained a little over an inch, according to one WU station.  It must have been where the claps of thunder were coming from.  It seems the storm formed just to the west southwest of me but moved east very slow and had pretty much rained itself out when it got to me:    https://www.stwnewspress.com/news/downpour-causes-street-flooding-in-stillwater/article_8fe0cc52-ee5d-11eb-9605-df7b27c43c5a.html



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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #58 on: July 29, 2021, 05:17:39 PM »
Ugly here today. A lot of smoke. Feels brown outside.

Canadian fires and worse air quality readings in 20 years.
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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #59 on: July 30, 2021, 12:13:01 AM »
It's headed for Oklahoma again and may be enough to keep the temp hi from going up to 100 or better for the first time this year before the next cold front.  Oklahoma City has only had highs to the 90's 30 times this summer, so far.  Normal is 71.

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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #60 on: July 31, 2021, 09:38:45 AM »
 47 hour forecast of near-surface smoke plume over US caused by the Canadian wild fires.
https://twitter.com/NWSduluth/status/1421314355560214529
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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #61 on: July 31, 2021, 03:19:12 PM »
I am in Fargo this weekend. More clear today.

But MPLS has their air quality hazard extended until Tuesday night. It is brown outside.



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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #62 on: August 01, 2021, 06:22:23 PM »
We had a couple of days the smoke was seriously unhealthy.  I estimated 1/8 of a mile at times the AP sensor was saying 1/4 mi.
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Still slight haze but most has moved out.

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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #63 on: August 01, 2021, 07:20:54 PM »
The rain and cold front here cleaned the air out Saturday night but smoky air soon returned with levels over 100.


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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #64 on: August 01, 2021, 07:59:48 PM »
Thanks for the Purple Air link I didn't realize we had a monitor in the area but we do.  I even bitched in my weather blog about it.  Our peak was 449 AQI at about the time of the image above

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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #65 on: August 02, 2021, 12:04:11 AM »
For Oklahoma City during July the temperature was 1.7 degrees below normal.  17 days had 90 or better.  The same number was the case at my weather station.  The highest high was 99.  Rainfall wasn't abundant in July but enough rain fell to keep a drought from starting, so far.

It will be interesting if August will be able to get to 100 for the first time this summer.


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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #66 on: August 02, 2021, 07:58:31 PM »
The Tulsa air quality index is just under 150.


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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #67 on: August 06, 2021, 04:47:03 AM »
2021 worst summer period Ive experienced here in Turkey for 14 years with above normal high temps , no rain, low afternoon 15-25% daytime humidity, high oppressive night time humidity 97% combined with 30c+ at midnight , personal weather station has busted highest temperature 35.9c,highest dew point 26c ,highest heat index 42C.

our summers were regularly kept in the lower end of 30c by prevailing gusty north easterly winds this year very calm winds pushing the feels like temps to 40c daily !!  .

many parts of southern turkey there are/were catastrophic forest fires effecting many urban areas or tourism areas that said there is an element of some it being man made by stupidity and ignorance but a lot of it is shear 40c or more with very low humidity below 20% classic recipe for fire outbreaks combined with ignorance..it gets hot here but the low humidity is not something Ive seen here especially living at 300 meters from the sea front !

another reason to forget 2021 along with 2020 !

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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #68 on: August 12, 2021, 01:57:20 AM »
OKC still hasn't gotten to at least 100 this summer.  An OKC TV weatherman said that hasn't happened since 2004.

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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #69 on: August 13, 2021, 06:12:13 PM »
As shown, Oklahoma City got another heavy summer storm on Friday afternoon.  Some amounts have gone over 2".  It was still raining in parts of Oklahoma City as of 5pm.  In a major high wind incident, power lines got blown down across I-35 in northeast Oklahoma City.  I-35 closed both ways.  It took around two hours to reopen.

The town 10 miles south of me, Perkins, also had a big storm.  It rained 2.18" there.  Just sprinkles and distant thunder here. Most of next week will have highs back to just the mid to upper 80s.

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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #70 on: August 29, 2021, 08:34:23 AM »
SW minnesota yesterday

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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #71 on: August 29, 2021, 10:25:36 AM »
I thought the spitball was illegal!


Wow, quite a hand full.


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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #72 on: September 02, 2021, 02:09:41 AM »
I thought the spitball was illegal!


Wow, quite a hand full.


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Wow, reminds me of the time in 2019 when I got a $13,000 claim check from my insurance company to totally replace the shingles on my house.  Fortunately, no big hail problems since then.

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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #73 on: September 03, 2021, 11:14:17 AM »
Thank you, Nora!

We picked up 1.19" from moisture brought to the Great Plains by Nora, a tropical storm from the eastern Pacific. It was needed moisture. Long way to Kansas, but appreciated.

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Re: Spring/Summer 2021
« Reply #74 on: September 05, 2021, 12:05:06 PM »
Mid 70's NW wind

high 50's at night.


Shut off the AC for a while!!!!



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