Fifty one years ago today, the weather men in Tulsa Oklahoma predicted a “DRY FRONT” would move through our area that night, and drop — nothing.
The next day, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas had around 14 inches of blowing “dry front” piling up in high drifts. It shut down these four states for a week or more. Power was off in parts of Tulsa for a week.
March 14, 1968. Lucky for me, I was in Northern California at that time.
Technology has changed a great deal since 1968 but there are still times when we get it wrong.
I was just becoming a forecaster in the USAF back around that time. Even with today’s advancements in the science of Meteorology there are still those days; fortunately they are fewer.