Date Issued: 23 December 1998
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Wednesday through Friday, December 23-25 - TX/OK: Continued cloudy and cold with a chance of freezing rain, sleet, or snow through the period except that most of OK will be dry on Friday and may see some partly cloudy skies. A little warming through the period. Highs mostly in the 20's and 30's with some 40's parts of south TX. Lows in the 10's and 20's.....some 30's south TX.
Trajectory weather: Occasional freezing drizzle....sleet....or snow today, high in the low 20's. Periods of sleet of freezing rain tonight, low in the 20's. Slight chance of sleet or freezing rain on Thursday, high in the low 30's.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** Low Threat *** Conditions very unfavorable for pollen release. Humidities remain fairly high and temperatures are nowhere near the tolerance zone for pollen release. Low Risk of transport today through Friday. 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? Send e-mail to Aerobiology Lab: pollen@utulsa.edu
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