By WEATHER WORLD on Jul 28, 2011, at 7:00 AM Updated on 7/27 at 11:08 PM
WEATHER WORLD
At the cookout I went to Sunday evening, it was tank top, cutoff jean shorts and flip flops. My friend said to me, “you look ...
This blog was inspired by some of our early morning commenters on the weather forecast story .
Yes, as one of you pointed ...
The deluge earlier this month was exciting. For a second, I though that maybe the near-record parched May was just a fluke ...
This is Don. Right now, he's just a little guy. Unfortunately for drought-stricken Texas, he will remain a little guy...
Tropical Storm Don will stay mostly in Texas, but parts of Oklahoma could possibly see some residual effects.
Most places in Tulsa and northeast Oklahoma got a nice little
shower this weekend.
I don’t know about you, but I totally stood outside Sunday night,
Shawshank Redemption-style, and soaked up every bit I could.
Well, lovers of liquid precipitation, you may be in luck again.
Rain is again in our
forecast! Albeit a small chance.
As of Wednesday night, National Weather Service forecasters are calling for a slight chance Friday night, with a 30 percent chance Saturday.
Who do we have to thank for this rain? Well, two things, actually.
- Some weak disturbances are likely to break through the brutal high pressure ridge Friday into Saturday, bringing the chance for thunderstorms.
- And then, there’s Don, our newest friend that was just born Wednesday near the Yucatan Peninsula. Tropical Storm Don (if we want to be all formal about it), was about 675 miles southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, headed west-northwest at 12 mph. Don is producing 40 mph sustained winds, and all of that is as of Wednesday night.
Don is expected to stay on this track and even strengthen a little before making landfall on the Texas coast Friday night, giving the Lone Star State some much needed rain. (You think our drought is
bad? It's the only thing Texas can beat us at. BOOM!)
Will Don affect us? It’s unclear. Its forecast track keeps it well into southern, central and western Texas.
So do what you need to do to make sure the rain gets here, and we’ll all hope that it is enough to give us a little break in Heatmageddon 2011 (no one protested the last time I used that term, so here it is again. You’re welcome).
--Jerry Wofford
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