Front Brings Cooler Air To Eastern Oklahoma

The cold front is moving across southeastern OK this morning but some clouds with scattered showers and storms may persist across southeastern or east-central OK for a few hours this morning before the dry air arrives from the north.   Once this happens the clouds will erode from the north to south with highs in the upper 60s and lower 70s.   North winds will remain in the 10 to 20 mph range today.   Dry air and light winds will persist tonight allowing temperatures to drop into the lower or mid-40s across northern OK and the upper 40s or lower 50s across southeastern OK.    We should be in the running for some great weather for most of the weekend before another system nears the area early next week with a few more storm chances. 

WARN Interactive Radar

The precipitation with the front last night was not impressive.   Most folks missed out on the storms as the front entered the area with very little upper level support.   A few storms did form and these are continuing to the southeast and east of the metro as of this post.  This shouldn’t last long.  Unfortunately.

Weather Alerts

The main upper level pattern will keep a southwestern U.S. cut-off low to our southwest today and tomorrow before ejecting to the northeast this weekend and weakening.   Forcing will arrive from the west late this weekend into early next week and some data suggest scattered showers and storms may follow with chances across the area by late Sunday night into Monday and Tuesday.    Temperatures are not expected to warm too much during this period with the weekend lows in the upper 40s and lower 50s with daytime highs in the lower 70s.   Despite a return of south winds Monday, the temps will remain in the upper 60s due to cloud cover and the possibility of scattered showers and storms.   Tuesday, Election Day, we may have a few showers or storms with highs in the 60s.

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A quick note about some of the extended models:

The last few days most of the ensemble plots have been suggesting a pattern change around the 15th and 15th of November.   This would allow some colder air to invade the northern part of the United States and move into the Midwest.   We’re obviously many days away from the middle of November but we’re also ready for some cooler air to arrive and stick around, at least for a few days!    I’ll keep you posted on the day to day variation in the data regarding this time period.

Thanks for reading the Thursday morning weather discussion and blog.

Have a super great day!

Alan Crone