Date Issued: 21 December 1998
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Monday, December 21 - TX/OK: Cold front with polar air behind it stalled over OK during the weekend. The next front coming down the plains has Arctic air behind it and will push through the region. Highs today in northern OK won't get out of the teens....while the southern 2/3 of Texas will start out balmy with many areas reaching the 70's. However.....temperatures in TX will tumble down fast during the afternoon.Chance of light rain, freezing rain, freezing drizzle, or sleet today depending on your location.....with a chance of some sort of freezing precipitation most areas tonight and Tuesday except for the far west, deep south, and coastal locations. Temperatures will drop into the single digits north and 20's and 30's south tonight.......and won't rise much for Tuesday's highs.
Trajectory weather: Cloudy with freezing drizzle or light rain today, high in the 30's. A mix of drizzle, freezing drizzle, or snow flurries tonight, low in the low 30's. Occasional light freezing rain or drizzle on Tuesday, high in the 30's.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** Low Threat *** Conditions wholly unfavorable for pollen release, very cold and very humid. Low Risk of transport toward any populated areas today. . TK
Trajectory Start(s) (shown by green dot on map): Sulfur, Oklahoma
Prepared by: 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.