Date Issued: 21 December 1999
Mountain Cedar location(s): Edwards Plateau, Texas
Regional weather: Tuesday, December 21 - TX/OK: Partly to mostly cloudy today and Wednesday with cold temperatures. Slight chance of precipitation in parts of southern TX and the Panhandle region. Highs mostly in the 30's and 40's today and Wednesday. Lows tonight ranging from the 10's to the 30's.
Trajectory weather: Partly to mostly cloudy today, chance of light rain south-central TX. High in the low to mid-40's. Partly cloudy hill country tonight, low near 30. Mostly cloudy west-TX plains, slight chance of light snow, low in the low 20's. Mostly cloudy on Wednesday with a chance of light snow, both in the west-TX plains and near the Big Bend area. High in the low 30's.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** Low Threat *** Little to no release expected. Unfavorable conditions for pollen release. Temperatures are too cold. The humidity varies across the Plateau..... drier in the west, more moist in the east... but too moist in most cases. Many cones are not yet mature enough for release. 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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