Scattered Showers across the State With More Rain Chances coming up Next Weekend

Thankfully some parts of the state saw some widespread rain events over the past few days. According to State Climatologist Gary McManus, the radar estimated rainfall shows a large area of 4-6 inches of rain down across southern Oklahoma, with some totals in very localized areas probably approaching 8+ inches. So a large amount of rain over a short time frame that obviously led to some pretty serious flooding concerns.



6.18 inches (and counting) of rain at Waurika is more than they had seen in the previous 87 days combined, dating back to May 25!



Another benefit of all the clouds and rainfall is the much milder (if not much more humid) weather, Mcmanus says is that we even saw some record low maximum temperatures yesterday across western Oklahoma where some sites failed to eclipse the 60s.



McManus says we will bust up into the 90s a couple of times this week across parts of Oklahoma, it does appear that we have transitioned from "hot most of the time but broken up by a day here or there with some cooler weather" to just the opposite. At least for the time being. He says we should see an extended period of seasonable-to-cooler than normal weather, with maybe a few hot days intermixed, at least for another week or two. The heat will be concentrated up in northern Oklahoma where the rain missed, but don't count out some high heat index values to the south. Friday is a good example of what to expect.



McManus says he believes we have switched for September. But, that long-term average high temperature graph starts a pretty sharp downward trend as we get into September. And notice the mostly steady above normal weather we've seen with that persistent heat dome over the area since June 11.



McManus says the 7 day rainfall forecast does show big rain chances coming next weekend, and that it does look like we are going to bookend our hot climatological summer with mild rainy periods both at the start of June and then to finish out this month.