Cool and Wet for Some

The showers will end this morning for the Tulsa metro.  Most of the rain will be confined to east central and southeastern OK.  We'll keep a slight mention for the Tulsa metro for mid morning.

The radar looks good this morning with a good coverage of rain and storms across portions of eastern OK.  The moderate to heavy rainfall will be confined to the far southeastern sections of the area of concern with locations northwest of the I-44 corridor receiving only small amounts of precipitation. Locations along and southeast of a line from McAlester to Muskogee to Tahlequah may receive anywhere from 2 to 4 inches before the system leaves the area later today. No severe weather is expected in the state. The severe weather threat will remain well south of the area.

The main upper level system won't clear the north Texas area until late Wednesday night or Thursday morning. This means we'll continue to keep a slight chance of showers in the forecast for Thursday, but these pops will be for the southern section of the area.

Temperatures today will be in the mid to upper 40s for most of eastern OK, but some lower 50s will be possible from Ponca City to Stillwater to near OKC. The Tulsa metro will see highs in the upper 40s with northeast winds around 10 to 20 mph.

Friday features another strong cold front arriving by late Friday evening that will bring gusty north winds and colder air back to the northeastern Ok area for Friday night and Saturday. A mid-level wave combined with some moisture in the mid-levels of the atmosphere will create some light showers or snow showers late Friday night into pre-dawn Saturday. Most, if not all of this activity will occur in southeastern Kansas, but there will be a very slight chance of some precipitation falling across northeastern OK. I will keep a slight pop on the map for this potential.

The cold air intrusion will again be short lived. Warmer air will quickly move back across the region with readings near or above normal Sunday into early next week.

We continue to see signs of colder air moving across southern Canada and into the upper Midwest but until the pattern changes dramatically, these cold air events will have little impact on our weather for anything other than a day or two of cold air.

The operational models continue to hint at a big surge of cold air for the first week of February, but the models have been hinting at this for a while with no major outbreak as of yet. Stay tuned and we'll keep you posted.