Posted on 01/27/2010 7:11:54 AM PST by Star Traveler
Posted: Jan 27, 2010 6:37 AM
Updated: Jan 27, 2010 8:52 AM
On Friday, snow will still be falling with significant
accumulations likely along and north of the I-44 corridor.
TULSA, OK -- Most of northern Oklahoma is under a Winter Storm Warning which will be in effect from 6 a.m. Thursday through 6 a.m. Friday.
News On 6 meteorologist Alan Crone says a major storm moving east out of California is expected to collide with cold air from Canada late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.
Read Alan Crone's weather discussion.
Crone says rain will begin Thursday morning and could quickly change over to freezing rain across portions of northern Oklahoma.
By midday or early afternoon, precipitation will be in the form of sleet with freezing rain near the I-40 corridor.
Thursday evening, the sleet will transition to snow across the northern third of the state, with freezing rain remaining along the I-40 corridor.
Snow will continue to fall into Friday, with significant accumulations likely along and north of the I-44 corridor.
Crone says because of the potential for freezing rain, he expects an Ice Storm Warning will be issued for portions of eastern and central Oklahoma on Thursday.
With that in mind, Crone says power outages are possible, especially across the I-40 corridor into east central Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas.
Some locations could lose electric service for several days.
Right. Headed there right now. Got the snow shovel out of the shed for this one. Not like the Christmas blizzard that got here ahead of my brain. Keep safe everyone. No power outages please.
We've had warnings, since Monday, of an impending snow storm Thursday night...Doppler radar is our friend.
Yeah, but that was warnings from something that was sitting off the California Coast, in the Pacific Ocean, back then... LOL...
And weather forecasts tend to "tighten up" and modify in three to four days. In this case, it seems that it's going to hit where they were thinking -- but at other times, all it takes is a slight swerve (especially talking about a storm in the Pacific Ocean, when you're talking about Oklahoma)... and then it misses the entire area.
The last one we had, they didn't even know it was going to be a blizzard until about two or three hours before it hit here. They knew there was a storm coming, but not blizzard conditions.
If you watch these things as they come closer and watch the forecasters, they change their forecasts just about every single day, before it gets here... LOL...
Interesting audio/slide show from the Tulsa forecast office from 6am this morning:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/media/tsa/briefing/player.html
Pay special attention to the icing forecast to predict power outages.
Thanks and you too... :-)
Don’t forget beer.
Oklahoma City just had a record-setting blizzard with over a foot (close to 20 inches IIRC) on Christmas Eve.
This looks to be slightly north, but wow.
OK has been hammered this winter.
This is for Washington county, the latest update from Bartlesville/Washington County emergency management:
“The current track could keep Washington County out of the heaviest ice accumulations, however it appears the trade off would be heavier snow fall amounts. Will continue to monitor and advise.
They are talking the possibility of significant accumulation here in Tennessee starting tomorrow night. I was going to North Carolina but now I will postpone the trip.
and batteries, candles, matches, etc...
You all are definitely over your yearly snowfall average by this point I would think. Crazy winter.
We even had several decent snows out here in Midland/Odessa, TX.
Heck, we got 4 inches in Abilene, TX on Christmas.
Reminds me of my childhood in Kansas.
And remember, depending on how ‘wet’ the snow is, about 11 inches of snow, give or take, equals one-inch of rain.
A great time to fertilize your lawn would be DURING the snow storm. I’ve been told.
Yeah, right.
No kidding. When I lived there every time it snowed it seemed it was a blizzard.
No my hatches are all unbattened.
LOL...
You all are definitely over your yearly snowfall average by this point I would think. Crazy winter.
Yeah, and I've been telling my relatives and friends around here that we're in for a decade or more of colder winter weather... according to the Dalton-type Minimum that we're currently in now.
I'm pretty sure we're going to have much colder winters, now (and much more ice and snow)... for the next decade and more... :-)....
I guess I'm going to have to get my skis back again, that I had while I was in Oregon. I liked doing the cross country skiing there... I could have used those croos country skis a number of times here...
Snow is like sex. You never know how much you are going to get or how long it is going to last.
I always wondered about that. Is there some tradition that you have French toast on snow days?
Bartlesville/Washington County Emergency Management The impact of a significant winter storm is almost certiain at this point. Forecast models are still changing but a Winter Storm Warning has already been issued for Washington County. Ice accumulations to 1/2” expected followed by as much as 12” of snow with winds in excess of 20mph and dangerous wind chills on Fri & Sat..
This is for Washington county, the latest update from Bartlesville/Washington County emergency management: “The current track could keep Washington County out of the heaviest ice accumulations, however it appears the trade off would be heavier snow fall amounts. Will continue to monitor and advise.
That weather service news report that "T-Bird45" supplied in his Post #23 -- is a good and informative report.
Thanks T-Bird45 for that link.
:-)
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