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The Rain Has Arrived!
Comments (6)Good Morning, Y'all, Not only did we get rain, it has come in waves so now we are getting more. Last night's initial band of storms only brought us about a quarter-inch. The second band brought very small hail briefly and yet more rain. At that point, the 3 local volunteer fire departments that were still out at the fires radioed in that it was "pouring down" out there at the fire scene and that they and the BIA firefighters were clearing. Recurring bands of rain throughout the night brought some heavier rain. This morning it is back to very light, but we've had two inches since about 8 p.m. Saturday. Our worst weather of the weekend is yet to come. This afternoon and this evening, our forecast includes winds up to 60-65 miles per hour, possibly severe thunderstorms and hail up to the size of half-dollars. I hope it rains all day but we could do without the wind and the hail. If I had known that setting out tomato transplants would make it rain, I'd have planted two weeks ago. I haven't been out to look at the plants I set out yesterday, but I bet they took a pounding. Rain is good, and the more the merrier. After the 2005-2006 drought, we thought the empty creeks and ponds would never refill. Then, on April 28, 2006, we had 9.25" of rain, and 8" of that fell in 4 hours so we actually had flash flooding. We had a few rough hours where the emergency personnel had to close down roads and rescue people from submerged vehicles, but the ponds filled up quickly. I wouldn't mind having a big storm like that come along now and refill the ponds, especially for the sake of the ranchers and their cattle. Two inches may help the cracks in the ground start closing up but, based on past experience, it will take another 3 to 4 inches at least to make the cracks disappear. Since the weather is "nice" in the sense that we don't have to worry about the place burning down today, I think we are going to go out for lunch and then go shopping. We have been afraid to leave the house all winter for fear a fast-moving wildfire would sweep across our end of the county and get it, so it is nice to have a day where fire danger is low to non-existent. Last night, though, our fire dept. was paged out to a power pole/transformer on fire (in the rain!) alongside Hwy. 77 and they had to stay there a long time waiting for OG&E personnel to come fix the transformer. Seems like it is always something. Dawn...See MoreThe Big One Has Arrived--W and NW of El Reno
Comments (3)Mark, If you have no shelter and no neighbor with a shelter, get to an interior room with no windows---a bathroom, a pantry, a closet---on the lowest level of your home. Take a mattress, couch cushions, pillows or anything to cover your head and body and protect them from debris. A small room is best. A room on the opposite side of where the storm is coming from is best. So, if it is approaching from your west, choose a small, windowless closet or room on the east side. Whatever you do, do not get in your car and try to outrun this storm. Please be careful. I am praying for your safety. If your have power and are receiving a TV signal, tune in to a local channel that can tell you this storm's exact path. Dawn...See MoreBRRRRRRRRRRRR /Winter has arrived
Comments (10)Jay, No! Say it isn't so! Winter has a lot of nerve arriving at the end of December. At least you had some good weather for a while so you could work on your outdoor projects. I guess that is over now. We have one more good day here (high temp today was around midnight--68 degrees at that time and we still should stay in the 50s all day) but we'll be much colder after the front moves through tonight. Being a lot further south, I think the lowest our temps will drop will be about 18 degrees tomorrow night. Still, after a couple of days in the 70s, that 18 degrees will feel really cold. Carol, I saw on The Weather Channel yesterday afternoon that Dr. Forbes had given a fairly high (for Dec.) TorCon Index to parts of the south today, but didn't really think it would hit OK. I hope the hail missed y'all and I hope Dorothy's place wasn't hit too hard by the storm. We had a brief rainshower during the early morning hours, bring our rain for this week to about 1.5" and to about 2.5" for the month, so we've had a good, wet December here. Hopefully the residents of Arkansas and other states that are at risk today will not be hit too hard by the forecasted severe storms. Somehow, tornadoes on the last day of this year just seems to fit right in with all the other wild weather we had in 2010. I've linked the Storm Prediction Center's Convective Outlook below for anyone who wants to read it or look at the graphic of the risk area. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Storm Prediction Center's Outlook...See MoreThe pineapple express has arrived
Comments (14)We got 4.7 inches of rain in 36 hours during this last storm. We are now at 150% of "normal" for this date. Amazing. The news media carried on as if everyone was going to die, but actually there was way less wind and destruction than predicted. I did get out the tide table prior to driving in to San Francisco, as that freeway traditionally floods in a few places at high tide during strong storms. That worked. I think people just have to get back into "rainy winter mode" - has not been any need for 4 years, and folks forget, or just moved here and are astonished at what a normal winter is really like here. 4 of our 6 local reservoirs are spilling, and the total water storage is at 85% of capacity (was only 61% prior to this storm). Yay! Jackie...See More- 4 years ago
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