Tuesday Morning Update

Tuesday, July 29th 2014, 4:32 am

By: Alan Crone

The weather looks good this morning across most of the state. We’re seeing a few showers located across far western OK but these will remain west of eastern OK for most of the day. Our rain chances will be increasing later tonight into Wednesday as a system nears the central and eastern OK vicinity. Temperatures are expected to remain below the seasonal average both today and for entire week. The coolest day will be Wednesday with highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s.

The front that moved across the state Sunday is located to our south this morning. Temps this morning are very cool with upper 50s and lower 60s common across the eastern third of the state. We’ll see highs back in the mid to upper 80s to near 90 this afternoon with an easterly component to the wind around 10 mph.

This afternoon showers and storms will develop across the front range of the Rockies and spread eastward this evening. There should also be a few showers or storms developing across western OK and will be slowly moving eastward later this afternoon. Additional moisture will move back into the state later tonight into Wednesday morning allowing for a high chance of rain and possibly a few thunderstorms to develop and move into our areas.

The instability factor remains low and we are not anticipating severe weather in our areas of eastern or southeastern OK.

This system will remain near the area Wednesday into Thursday morning before exiting our area by midday Thursday. The temps will more than likely remain in the upper 60s and lower 70s Wednesday due to clouds and rain cooled air before moving back into the upper 70s near 80 Thursday afternoon.   At this point, Thursday night into Friday appears in good shape. We’ve seen some small signals for a few isolated showers or storms Friday into the weekend, but I don’t have enough confidence or evidence to include any mentions over 10% at this point and we’ll keep them off the big forecast panels this morning.

The pattern may not change until the following week. This means the up-coming weekend may continue to feature cooler than normal temperatures for the last week in July and the first few days of August.

Yesterday’s high was 90 recorded at 4:09pm. The daily average-normal high is 94 and the low is 73. Daily records include a high of 110 from 1986. The record low is 60 from both 2005 and 1969.

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Alan Crone

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