FryingPan-handle
The Panhandles region today ended up in Ma Nature's frying pan...and I think she forgot and left it on the stove. LOL!! Records were smashed, no doubt. A sample of temperatures with the leader...Buffalo, OK.
Right now, at 10:30pm, Buffalo, OK is STILL reporting 97F!! I hope everybody's A/C units can endure the next few days.
Tomorrow looks like another scorcher without a doubt. I'm afraid that just like today, the models are underestimating the intense heat. Thus, the forecast high of 102F for Amarillo seems too conservative. We shall see what happens. Ugh. This just adds further insult to injury after a dismal 2009 chase season around these parts.
But, as they say, it's at least a DRY heat. LOL!!! It definitely beats the intense heat with high dewpoints I had to endure back in North Central Texas. Today, the dewpoints were generally less than 50F whereas back in my old stomping grounds, it was mid and upper 60's with the about the same air temperature.
Hopefully, the models are correct in weakening the ridge and even teasing us with a couple of weak fronts next week. This should "cool" us back into the 90's and with any luck, some cooling outflow from thunderstorms.
Is it October yet? ;-)
BUFFALO OK 115 (highest Oklahoma temperature in 15 years)
CANADIAN TX 112
MESA VISTA RANCH TX 111
BEAVER OK 111
PERRYTON TX 111
GUYMON OK 110
HOOKER OK 110
SLAPOUT OK 110
GOODWELL OK 107
PAMPA TX 106
AMARILLO TX 106
Right now, at 10:30pm, Buffalo, OK is STILL reporting 97F!! I hope everybody's A/C units can endure the next few days.
Tomorrow looks like another scorcher without a doubt. I'm afraid that just like today, the models are underestimating the intense heat. Thus, the forecast high of 102F for Amarillo seems too conservative. We shall see what happens. Ugh. This just adds further insult to injury after a dismal 2009 chase season around these parts.
But, as they say, it's at least a DRY heat. LOL!!! It definitely beats the intense heat with high dewpoints I had to endure back in North Central Texas. Today, the dewpoints were generally less than 50F whereas back in my old stomping grounds, it was mid and upper 60's with the about the same air temperature.
Hopefully, the models are correct in weakening the ridge and even teasing us with a couple of weak fronts next week. This should "cool" us back into the 90's and with any luck, some cooling outflow from thunderstorms.
Is it October yet? ;-)
posted by Steve Miller TX at 7/09/2009 10:26:00 PM
1 Comments:
You know when we are hotter than Vegas we are having problems!!!!uuugh. Thank God for indoor pools! We had brownouts yesterday in parts of town due to overloading the power grid with running AC's. I wouldnt even bother going to work if I had to work outside. Today its already 105 at noon in Woodward and 98 in amarillo!! Thank God El Nino is taking over which will mean a wetter winter and wilder spring for the southern plains!!! Its been 3 years of crap in May thanks to La Nina.
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