Pollen Transport Forecast, 9 December 1999

University of Tulsa
Mountain Cedar Pollen Forecast

 

Date Issued: 9 December 1999

Mountain Cedar location(s): Edwards Plateau, Texas

Regional weather: Thursday, December 9 - TX/OK: Storm system has developed as scheduled and will move east today and tonight. Wide range of weather....from snow in the Panhandles to showers and thunderstorms for OK and northern and eastern TX. Partly cloudy south and west TX. Windy all areas. Highs ranging from 40's north and west to 70's south and east. Rain ending tonight eastern areas. Clearing and colder tonight and Friday. Lows tonight from the 10's north and west to low 50's south and east. Highs Friday ranging from the 40's to 60's.

Trajectory weather: After morning showers/thunderstorms eastern sections...... decreasing cloudiness, breezy, high around 70. Clear and much cooler tonight, low in the low 40's inland, low 50's coast. Sunny on Friday, high in the 60's.

Trajectory confidence: High.

OUTLOOK: *** Low Threat *** Conditions for pollen release are mixed but mostly unfavorable. Humidities are up for eastern sections of the Plateau and some showers and thunderstorms moved through that region this morning. Windy all areas. Temperatures will be in the favorable zone during the afternoon west and much of the day east. Given that most cones remain immature....... little pollen release is expected. TK

Trajectory Start(s) (shown by * on map): Austin, TX; Junction, TX; San Angelo, TX

Austin, TX

Junction, TX

San Angelo, TX

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.

Questions: Aerobiology Lab e-mail: pollen@utulsa.edu

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