Pretty quiet weather week here, and some of your comments say you’re bored with the weather. While we here in the First Alert Weather Center enjoy the quiet time (for awhile), there is no doubt we’re looking ahead to see if more active weather is on the way.
Rick and I were just bantering about a few different topics. Of course being men, the first topic was sports and the OU-Nebraska game. No one here seems to know what to think about that game. Even Nebraska-alum Rick is being cautiously optimistic. Of course everyone here is just waiting for my Gators to get picked off. Each week I hear that it’s a “trap game”. Hopefully, I’ll keep hearing it until the end of the season.
The next topic was how windy and warm its been the last couple of days. The fire danger is actually up a bit because of this. As a matter of fact, Jessica just walked into the studio saying she had to do a breaking news cut-in on a car fire which started a grass fire. The humidity values in northwest Oklahoma are less than 20%.
The latest freeze ever in Oklahoma City was on December 5th. After looking at the models today, no freezing weather is in the forecast for OKC for at least the next 7 days.
Remember the National Weather Service Festival tomorrow from 9am-1pm in Norman. The entire First Alert Storm team will be there signing autographs and chatting it up ,so stop on by. Word on the street is we’ll be participating in a weather balloon launch as well.
Rusty
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Very windy this weekend. Also very warm. Highs will be in the upper 70s to low 80s this weekend with winds out of the South at 30 and even 40mph. Dry through Sunday with a chance for rain on Monday. A cold front will push through Monday and that will cool us off as we head into next week.
This weekened looks good here…and if you are headed north to support your favorite team, here is a look at the Football forecasts.
Sarah
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Looks like a nice day today…just a bit windy. Highs will be in the mid to upper 70s through the weekend with lows in the 50s. Expect a few showers by Monday.
Sarah
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Patchy frost possible in northern Oklahoma. Temperatures in central Oklahoma are in the 40s and 50s. We will warm up quickly with highs in the mid 70s! A beautiful day ahead!
Sarah
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Hardly ever do I pass up a free event and neither should you! This Saturday is The National Weather Festival in Norman at The National Weather Center. ( 120 David L. Boren Blvd). Everything you would want to know about weather will be there..including The First Alert Team of Meteorologists.
http://www.norman.noaa.gov/events/nwf09/
Click on the link for more info and videos. See you there!
-Damon
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The First Alert Storm Team will be bringing you new videos on koco.com. They may be about anything weather related, or perhaps even “outside the box”.
We may talk about the forecast and what we’re thinking and why. We may also delve into different aspects of weather forecasting that we just don’t have time to talk about on television.
In this video, you’ve heard us mention the jet stream and that it will affect our weather this way or that way. Well, what exactly is the jet stream and how do we use it in weather forecasting? I’ll take you through how the jet stream is a big player in our weather and where it is in relation to Oklahoma can bring about big changes.
After watching the video, if you have an idea for a topic you want us to do a video on, drop us a line!
Rusty
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Yes, we may have been fortunate in The United States to not have any tropical storm systems move onshore, but Hurricane season isn’t over just quite yet as TROPICAL DEPRESSION 11 formed in The Southwestern ”>Carribean Sea earlier today. This system was upgraded to DEPRESSION status solely off of satellite imagery. The Air Force Reserve will be flying into the storm later today to get a better estimate of winds.
This storm is projected to move north into The Caribbean where it could become TROPICAL STORM IDA.
We’ll continue to monitor this as the “official” Hurricane Season doesn’t end for a few more weeks.
-Damon
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Lifescience.com: If you have been logging onto the USGS website lately and looking at earthquake data (because we all do that everyday right?), then you may have noticed a recent string of earthquakes being reported in The Midwest. Mainly over Arkansas and Missouri within a close proximity of The Mississippi River.
If you look at the map above, notice the concentration of earthquake activity in the last 50 years around The Mississippi River. According to history, a large earthquake (magnitude 8.0) occurred in the early 1800s. The earthquake was so powerful that it was able to make The Mississippi River flow backwards for a while.
Scientists are now thinking that the recent string of weak earthquakes may in fact be aftershocks of the earthquake that occurred almost 200 years ago. So, how can this be happening? Yes, there is a fault line that runs along The Mississippi . Compared to The San Andreas fault in California that can move 1.5 inches a year (which is considered very fast), the New Madrid Fault moves nearly 100 times more slowly than that..allowing the aftershocks to last much longer as evident by the recent reports of weak earthquakes.
How long will these aftershocks last? Probably for a while… but the likelihood of any type of considerable damage..not likely.
-Damon
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Due to recent customer feedback, there has been an expressed need for a more user-friendly format on public advisories that The National Hurricane Center sends out. You, the public, now have the option to control the way the new advisories will look.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/feedback_tcp.shtml
-Damon
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One year ago today, many of us were standing outside voting in a historical presidential election year. The weather that day… sunny, high of 79 degrees and a low of 51.
One year later, our weather was a little cooler..high of 70 degrees and lows in the mid 40s, but the sunshine still remained dominant.
Next year..who knows..but if past history is any indicator of future performance… then highs in the 70s and lows in the upper 40s? I guess we’ll find out in 365 days…
-Damon
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