Date Issued: 17 December 1998
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Thursday, December 17 - TX/OK: High pressure will keep conditions partly cloudy and dry today. Increasing clouds tonight western and southern sections as an upper-level disturbance moves into the region from the west. Cloudy and cool with a chance of rain in Texas on Friday while Oklahoma will remain mostly dry.
Trajectory weather: Sunny today, high near 60. Becoming partly cloudy tonight, low in the upper 30's. Mostly cloudy, chance of light rain or snow early on Friday, high in the low 40's.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** Significant Threat *** Conditions are favorable for pollen release during the afternoon hours. Residents of Oklahoma City....Stillwater....Tulsa ....and Bartlesville, OK are the most likely to be afftected this afternoon and evening. Airborne pollen will be moving through southeast Kansas and northern Missouri late tonight and early Friday morning., with the main bulk of pollen approaching the Kansas City area before daybreak. Any potential effects from this source should lessen during the day on Friday as more horizontal and vertical dispersion occurs. Populated areas of eastern OK and southeast Kansas are at most risk......odds are good that airborne pollen from this source will be followed by more from Texas late Thursday night and Friday morning. TK
Trajectory Start(s) (shown by green dot on map): Sulfur, Oklahoma
Prepared b: Thomas Keever (Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, NCSU), Estelle Levetin (Faculty of Biological Science, The University of Tulsa, 600 S. College, Tulsa, OK 74104), and C.E. Main (Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7618). This forecast gives the anticipated future track of released Mountain Cedar pollen, weather conditions over the region and along the forecast pathway, and an estimated time of arrival for various metropolitan areas.
Questions: Aerobiology Lab e-mail: pollen@utulsa.edu
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