Alan Crone's Weather Blog: Cold Air Remains

Our issue this morning will revolve around sub-freezing temperatures and residual moisture on the roadways from yesterday’s precipitation event over part of the area.   Some additional slick spots may be encountered early this morning with temperatures in the mid-20s even though most of the major roadways will be in fine shape.   The next fast but weak wave will arrive later tonight from the southwest and may produce some snowfall across the northern third of the state into southern Kansas.  Amounts are expected to remain light, if any at all.    Cold air will remain for the remainder of the week.

The temperatures this morning have dropped into the mid-20s with some clouds still near part of the eastern sections of the state.   The clouds have cleared to our west and some fog may develop across part of central and western OK this morning.   Mostly cloudy conditions should remain the call for most of the day.   But we should experience  a few sunbreaks today before additional clouds roll into the area later tonight in advance of the southwestern U.S. wave that will eject across the state.   The “lift” associated with this system is fairly stout but the moisture should remain limited.    These types of systems can quickly create a small swath of snowfall so we’ll keep the chances in the forecast for the northern third of the state into southern Kansas.  Most of the model data is keeping the precipitation to our west and northwest.   Only the 12K NAM brings some light precip into the metro overnight.    Regardless, the window will be tonight from 11pm to about 7am Wednesday morning.   A word about these timing suggestions:   they can and do change.    Yesterday morning I anticipated the transition from rain to sleet to occur around 8am, but the change-over was much faster, around the 530am to 6am period.    I always try my very best but just like yesterday morning, some of my “timing” suggestions could be off.

After the Tuesday night and Wednesday morning wave ejects away from the area, we don’t see any significant systems nearing the northern part of the state for a few days.   The southern sections into north TX may experience some light precipitation Thursday night into Friday morning but even this is a stretch.  We’re opting to keep our northeastern OK forecast cold and dry into the end of the week.   Temperatures will drop into the 20s for lows and highs will be in the upper 30s and lower 40s Thursday and Friday.    The data suggest slightly warmer air for weekend highs with some locations in the lower to mid-40s.   Another active pattern will more than likely unfold across the state next week.

Thanks for reading the Tuesday morning weather discussion and blog.

Have a super great day!

Alan Crone

KOTV