Date Issued: 9 December 1999
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
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: Rain and thunderstorms today, especially this morning, high in the low 60's. Showers and thunderstorms possible through the night, low in the 40's. Rain ending on Friday with variable clouds, high near 60.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** Low Threat *** Unfavorable conditions for pollen release today. Rain moved through the source region this morning and humidities remain high. Most cones remain immature. Very little to no release expected. TK
Trajectory Start(s) (shown by the * 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.
Questions: Aerobiology Lab e-mail: pollen@utulsa.edu
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