There are a few showers/storms out there early this afternoon. These storms have developed along and near an outflow boundary put off from earlier convection over NE Oklahoma. The 3:30pm radar image is displayed below. The main threats with these storms will be heavy downpours and frequent lighting. Although, there may be an isolated severe storm with small hail and gusty winds. We are not expecting widespread activity, as vertical shear is simply lacking. However with the outflow boundary acting as a source of enhanced lift, and modest instability thunderstorms have managed to develop. Again these storms will be most concentrated near the boundary. Any activity will diminish around sunset with the loss of diurnal heating. Otherwise today looks to be a hot and muggy day with pt. cloudy skies. Temperatures will be near or above 90 degrees just about statewide. Meanwhile, the Atlantic remains active. Remember we are entering the peak of hurricane season, therefore the Atlantic will need to be watched very carefully. Here is the latest Tropical weather outlook courtesy the NHC.TS Fay continues to produce record breaking rainfall over parts of Florida and along the gulf coast states. Tornadoes will also be possible in this region as well with some of the storms. A tornado watch is in effect for the mentioned areas. The future track of Fay takes her to the west and then turns her sharply to the northeast by next week. She will not be effecting our weather. Fay is one for the record books, with over 4 total landfalls and record setting rainfalls she was/is quite the storm. The death toll in Florida from Fay has risen to 10 unfortunately. My thoughts and prayers are over there. Also you probably notice two orange circles with the numbers 1 and 2. These are new tropical waves that have developed....usually these are signs of developing tropical systems. The first wave doesn't look like it will develop too much further as it moves to the west over the windward islands. I don't believe it will be effecting the U.S. The 2nd wave however is currently of interest. Shower and thunderstorm activity with this wave is gradually organizing and further development of the system is likely as it moves to the WNW at 10-15mph. It could become a depression in the next few days. We will continue to keep an eye on it.
Hey all, yeah it's me writing a blog at 12:31 in the morning. It's not my fault that the stupid internet connection decides to work at midnight. Anyway, we are proud to announce the release of our new links page! We have been working on it since last weekend, and released it last night. What makes this new links page cool, is that the links display thumbnails. That way you can see a glimpse of the site before you even visit it. Also the new links page has categories.... This keeps them more organized. We will be occasionally adding new link to the page every once in a while. If you have a website you would like to recommend then send it to us via our e-mail at: zack@hardcorewx.com! We do ask however, that the site(s) be weather related snce this is a weather website. So check it out by clicking on the "sites to check out" on the navigator bar. Just a quick little update on Fay before I go. Fay still hovers over the Fla. panhandle, as she moves ever so slowly to the west at 8mph. The current track of Fay brings her to the west over the next few days, then eventually to the north and north west. She will continue to be a prolific rain producer and bring gust winds to areas along the gulf coast over the next few days. At this time, sadly, 6 people have been reported dead from Fay, with some parts of Florida receiving over 2' of rain!!
Yup you said it.... We have broken the record for the wettest month. Over 6.75" of rain has fallen at the airport, and the majority of the rain has fallen in less than 2 weeks. Yesterday numerous flood watches and warnings were issued, and there were several rescues that had to be made out in Kingfisher, and Canadian counties. Yesterday the street that leads to my school was submerged under 6ft of water! Below is the total accumulative rainfall over the past 48 hours. according to the data provided by the Oklahoma mesonet, Oklahoma city has recieved over 3.33" of rain. The airport saw 4.07, south sides saw 3.52, and right here at my house we received 5.42" of rain. Some locations in southern Oklahoma saw anywhere from 6 to as much as 10" of rain! As mentioned this combined with the already saturated ground created significant flash flooding. Thankfully though the rain has ended for now, and it appears that the waters are receding. Another big story is the temperatures. Temps have ranged from 10-25 degrees below the averages for this time of year. Oklahoma City's average high is 93 for mid August....however highs have been stuck in the 70's and even upper 60's in a few locations thanks to the thick cloud cover and saturated ground. It does look like some drier weather is instore for the latter part of the week as well as a return to normal high temperatures. In other news, we continue to watch 'boomerang' Fay as she wobbles back in forth over the east Fla. coast. The Tropical storm is nearly stationary near Orlando, Fla. as she moves ever so slowly to the N at 2mph. The future track of Fay, is anyones guess as she basically just sits at her current location bringing flooding rains, tornadoes, and gusty winds to much of the state of Fla. The upper level winds in that part of the country are weak, therefore Fay has no prominent steering feature(this is similar to a cut off low). A high pressure to the north well likely lead Fay in a NW then W direction over the next few days, but the track is still uncertain. The "forecast" track of Fay is displayed below. The latest status on Fay, is that she has 50mph winds, a pressure of 997 mb, and a very slow movement of only 2mph. She like mentioned, remains at TS status and I at the time being don't expect her to significantly strengthen as she continues to move off and over land. The track points her in the mentioned WNW direction around the high over the eastern U.S. But the exact track is yet to be known. Also I don't think she will impact our weather in the near future, but she is definently worth watching. So stay tuned on that.
