lookingnorth

I lost power last night from one of the storms that produced a tornado. But thankfully the tornado did not hit me. I have seen some branches down in Norman today, but I didn't notice any major damage.

It looks like Tucson didn't hit 100, but they still managed to set 3 daily records, topping out at 99.

Now I'm wondering what the record longest consecutive stretch of record highs is for a location with at least a 100 year POR.

It looks like almost every city in Arizona but Flagstaff broke their October record high in the past few days. It hit 113F in Phoenix and Yuma. Some record highs were set in California as well. San Jose managed to hit 106, breaking the old monthly record high by 5F.

It's quite hot today, 102°F with a heat index of 109°F at the Norman mesonet site. Maximum HI today was 111°F.

Yeah, we had a couple good weeks in January, and a decent snow in February, but overall this winter was unimpressive. At least we weren't setting records for winter warmth like they were further north.

Doesn't feel much like winter today, with much of Oklahoma getting into the upper 80s, and the southern part of the state having some areas in the 90s.

The mountains do block radar coverage, but it looks decent around Lake Tahoe, assuming this map is correct.

I find the CPC is usually pretty good on their 6-10 day and 8-14 day outlooks. Getting accurate forecasts beyond 14 days out is just extremely hard.

I believe it's happened twice before. 1990-91 and 1991-92 each only had a trace of snow. Same with 1948-49 and 1949-50. But the third time in over 120 years of records is still pretty bad.

It looks like the Antarctic sea ice extent gap is down to 187,000 km^2.

Only got an inch of snow in Norman that was almost all gone by the next morning.

Yeah California has gotten a lot of rain and storms lately. I saw lightning flying into San Diego before Christmas, which is somewhat unusual for them.

We got barely any snow in the Norman/OKC area from the cold blast, and the coming couple weeks don't look that interesting either. I hope we see something good in late February/early March.

I got some surprise flurries today at least.