Down here in Oklahoma City we're getting cloud cover all next week. Perfect weather - you just have to sneak out between clouds!

Here is a link that might be useful: Oklahoma Weather Forecast

David,

Y'all are lucky. We've had some little bits of it, but every time it clouds over and I run outside, the clouds go away and the sun comes back out.

More clouds are likely coming our way. That's the good news. The bad news is that they'll be pushed our way by current Tropical Depression #3, likely soon to be Tropical Storm Bonnie, and perhaps even Tropical Hurricane Bonnie. I've been watching the tropical weather models and many of them show this tropical depression sending lots of tropical moisture towards Oklahoma if it continues on its current projected path.

I'm down here in southcentral OK where we have only had heat indices in the 103-108 range, so only an occasional heat advisory or excessive heat warning here, but not like many folks north of us are having. Every time I look at the heat index at Tulsa or Grove or anyplace in northeastern OK, I feel so terrible for everyone up there. I don't know if I can remember a day that someone in NE OK hasn't had a heat advisory or excessive heat warning in the last two weeks.

Since tropical moisture will worsen the humidity, the tropical moisture from Tropical Depression #3/the future 'Bonnie' isn't much to look forward to even though many of us need rain.

I'm normally not real fond of our usual summer drought down here in southcentral OK, but after all this humidity, I'm kind of missing that hot, dry air.

If I had to put up with the humidity Carol and others have had in the Grove area (I remember one day the heat index near the lake was 128!), I think I'd go spend the summers in Alaska or something.

Dawn

Thought this would give you an idea of the humidity. On Wednesday afternoon about 2:30, I washed off my front porch with the water hose. It is concrete and not totally smooth so has a couple of dips in it that hold about a quarter inch of water. Twenty four hours later, the dips still had water standing in them, and after dark last night, I could still see dampness there. If a puddle of water can't evaporate, then it is just to humid. It only gets early morning sun, but you would think the wind would dry it up before that time had passed. No wonder my clothes are wet when I come in from the garden. The heat index is only 100 today and the humidity is down to 56 percent. WooHoo.

Is it ever going to rain here again? Flood/drought/ flood/drought.

Does Mother Nature hate Oklahoma?

Jo