If you were thinking Oklahoma might see a change of the kind of weather we’ve been having in the past few weeks, forget it.
At least, that’s the advice from Gary McManus, Climate Director at the Oklahoma Mesonet. In his Monday morning address to his multitude of followers, McManus explained the growing Hurricane Milton that’s taking aim at central Florida and expected to hit the state on Wednesday, it won’t have much, if any, impact on Oklahoma.
“Not a whole heckuva lot as we are still dominated by this mid-fall Dome of Death over the western half of the U.S.; the same Dome of Death that is helping keep Milton headed east. And apparently this dome still ain’t budging anytime soon.”
And if that weren’t enough depressing news.
“Pretty simple–simple and demented, but still sad–forecast for Oklahoma…above normal temperatures and below normal precip for the next 2 weeks or so. The “or so” comes from the hope something will break through as we get into fantasy-cast territory 10+ days out, but that is probably not happening over the next 7 days, at least.”
There you have it. In other words, the temperatures will be high enough that even the Southwest Power Pool sent out an advisory on Sunday to Oklahoma and other states in its grid that there could likely be additional demand for electricity because of the hot weather. It was just an advisory and did not indicate there is any need to require utilities to conserve electricity.
