Rainfall is in this week’s forecast for some parts of Oklahoma, but not for the Panhandle, where conditions are more apt to be described as “bone dry.”
As Gary McManus, State Climatologist, wrote in Monday’s Mesonet alert, it has been 152 days since the Mesonet’s site at Eva in the central Panhandle received at least a tenth of an inch of rain in a single day.
Equally bad is that it has been 188 days since Goodwell or Hooker in the central Panhandle received at least one-quarter of inch of rainfall in a single day.
That’s how dry it is in the three counties that make up the Panhandle.
