Date Issued: 30 December 1998
Mountain Cedar location(s): Edwards Plateau, Texas
Regional weather: Wednesday, December 30 - TX/OK: Another fast-moving but dissipating system passing through the region will bring a few clouds and shifting winds but no rain. Highs today mostly 50's OK and 60's to 70's TX with a few 40's in northeast OK. Lows tonight 20's and 30's OK and west TX, 40's and a few 50's other areas of TX.
Trajectory weather: Partly cloudy today and tonight, high in the 60's, low in the 30's. Increasing clouds on Thursday, high in the upper 50's.
Trajectory confidence: Interesting features today, but reasonable given the changing wind situation.
OUTLOOK: *** SERIOUS Threat *** Conditions quite favorable for pollen release. Significant release expected again today. Airborne pollen will be moving through many areas of central and northern Texas today through Thursday. People living in Dallas/Ft. Worth....Waco...and Austin....westward across Texas to Lubbock, Midland, and areas in between....may feel the effects resulting from today's pollen release over the next 24 to 36 hours. TK
Trajectory Start(s) (shown by green dot on map): Austin, TX; Junction, TX; San Angelo, TX
Austin, TX
Junction, TX
San Angelo, TX
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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