It’s winter. Surprised?
Even with warm afternoons followed by cold, cold nights this week, we are expecting another blast of harsh REALLY cold weather this week.
How harsh?
Here’s how Gary McManus, State Climatologist with the Oklahoma Mesonet put things this week.
” Basically what we have, as we’ve mentioned many times, is the same weather of December, just subtract 20 degrees off of every forecast. So our 80s and 70s become 60s and 50s, and our 40s and 30s become 20s and teens. Hence, as we look at what will become our FIFTH (I think?) major cold front during the first 20 days of 2022 on Wednesday.”
Obviously, he can be one cold-hearted weather expert, right?
“The only tiny tiny TINY (oxymoron font size notwithstanding) big of excitement will be a small chance of some snow flurries across NW OK Wednesday night into Thursday. Highs will be in the 20s and 30s, with wind chills dipping down close to zero, of course, because 2022! We remain with little chance of beneficial precip as we look out another week. Medium-range forecasts show little hope through the rest of January.”
Thank you Gary!