January 2023 - General Weather Discussion

[TheTravellers]

We're at Hefner & Council. Monday evening we went home to about .5 inch of sleet. Yesterday morning it had become a sheet of ice and was a skating rink. By mid afternoon it had melted and had started to evaporate. This morning everything was dry.

Venice neighborhood has been pretty much dry since Tue morning.

[Celebrator]

Right, I was up in New England for a significant, extended heatwave (mid-high 90s) last July and they are totally unprepared for that! They don't have the air conditioning capacity (some buildings don't have it at all) and they complained like crazy. They were unprepared. But while I was there I wasn't telling them they were handling things all wrong, etc., they just prepare for it it like we do here (powerful a/c everywhere) and as a consequence, don't handle it as well. So be it. They don't make investments in infrastructure that they might only use once or twice a year, so they deal with it the best they can and move on. We should do the same. I heard all of this tiresome "the way we do it up north" ALL THE TIME while living in Florida, too, it gets old fast. Each place has unique climatic differences and anomalous events that everyone does the best they can to deal with.

[C_M_25]

Recent HRRR runs are a bit more bullish on ice in okc tonight.

[C_M_25]

Lol. Now David Payne is backing off ice chances in okc. Lol. I have no clue what’s going on.

[MagzOK]

The air in place is just too dang dry around here and it's too much for the precipitation to overcome. You could see in the radar trends earlier today that the stuff was really moving north but there was a vast line where the precipitation was just disappearing as it was moving north.