By ALTHEA PETERSON Staff Writer on Feb 12, 2013, at 2:52 PM Updated on 2/12 at 2:52 PM
WEATHER WORLD
It's not a Tulsa urban legend, myth or a running joke: It really does rain every year (since 2008) at downtown's Mayfest.
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There is a lot to digest on the drought front, so I'll try to cover as much ground as I can.
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Bad news this week, Oklahoma: Your drought situation was either unchanged or got worse.
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Weather is apparently a very key factor in professional fishing. This strikes me as odd, because when I was little, my dad would take us kids fishing whether it was raining or if the pond was iced over (then it was ice fishing, not just fishing).
As Tulsa World Outdoors writer Kelly Bostian explained, "You hear that all the time, 'I found 'em in practice but then we had this high pressure system/big low/front/rain/clouds/wind/etc. come in and the fish moved into a different pattern.'"
The official pracitce runs for the fishers are this weekend, so here is your Grove weather forecast. Since there's no night fishing to my knowledge, these forecasts are for the daylight hours only:
Friday, Feb. 15: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42.
Saturday, Feb. 16: Sunny, with a high near 42.
Sunday, Feb. 17: Sunny, with a high near 56. Breezy.
Says Tulsa National Weather Service meteorologist Karen Hatfield:
"Current model data indicate the potential for a storm system to move through the area Friday the 15th and Saturday the 16th, with high pressure in place by Sunday the 17th.
"The two main medium range weather models we use are disagreeing on the strength of the late week system, but both agree on the timing and that high pressure should be here by Sunday."Because the weather service does not offer forecasts more than a week out, here are some additional resources for those of you looking to the actual tournament, the weekend after next:
The Climate Prediction Center's two-week forecast, which indicates warmer and wetter conditions for tournament weekendClimatology information from Pryor, the closest weather service site to Grand Lake, showing historical temperature and precipitation informationIf you are still reading, but have no idea what the 2013 Bassmaster Classic is,
you can find more information via the Tulsa World on our main page here.In a nutshell, it is the Super Bowl of Bass Fishing!
--Althea Peterson
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