A Red Flag Fire Warning is in effect for portions of southwestern, west-central and central Oklahoma from 10 a.m. this morning through 9 p.m. this evening. The fire warning area includes the counties along the I-35 corridor from the OKC area down to Thackerville and thence westward to the OK-TX border. Some adjacent counties in Texas are included in the Red Flag Fire Warning area. Later in the day, severe weather including severe T-storms, hail and high winds, including tornadoes, will be possible. You can check the county map at the bottom of the linked page to see if your county is included in the warning area. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Webpage of Norman NWS Office

The ongoing wildfires can be seen on the linked radar for as long as the NWS leaves those particular radar images up on their website. One fire is in SW OK near Ft. Sill and the other is in Carter County. Here is a link that might be useful: Fire Locations on Radar

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This afternoon while I was out playing in the mud in my garden and covering up all my plants, the NWS issued a Frost Advisory for part of NE OK. If you are in NE OK, you can see it at the Tulsa NWS office's webpage, linked below. Heather, Thanks for the advective/radiational explanation. Radiational cooling always seems to give us either worse frost or at least more plant damage--and in the early years here, I wasn't good at figuring out it would happen. Now, I cover up stuff more often but the end result is less damage. I've discovered the floating row cover is my favorite garden helper. With your new plants, I'd go ahead and cover them up if you have something to cover them up with. It wouldn't hurt the plants and might prevent another setback. I love my wax myrtles but I might have chosen something else if I'd realized how often they'd have cold damage, which is about every other year here in southern OK. It was so cold out there in the garden with light rain falling on me and the wind blowing, no sunshine and I was ankle deep in wet clay that kept trying to suck my Crocs off my feet! It had better frost tonight or I'll be irritated that I spent all that time covering up plants for nothing. (Well, not really irritated because at least I can sleep well knowing the plants are covered.) Jay, They're saying 36 for us, so I do expect some frost. Last night we only went 1 degree colder than forecast so maybe tonight we'll be similarly close to our forecast low. Your place often goes warmer than expected, but mine tends to go lower than expected. At least we both know what to expect. I would like to resume planting by Wed., but we've had 2.7" of rain since the latest round began very early Sunday morning, so now I have water standing everywhere. I'm not complaining because we surely do need the moisture, but it does mean I won't be able to plant anything else for a while. We'll probably be 85 or 90 in 4 or 5 days and then the mosquitoes will start hatching out. One thing about our weather is that it changes so quickly you don't get bored with it. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Tulsa Office of the NWS Webpage