Date Issued: 25 December 1999
Mountain Cedar location(s): Edwards Plateau, Texas
Regional weather: Friday/Saturday, December 24/25 - TX/OK: High pressure will continue to govern the weather over the weekend. The upper-atmosphere Low in the Southwest will probably move a bit westward. Circulation around the High will bring moisture into sections of southern and western TX..... clouds and a chance of mostly light precipitation. Most areas of OK/TX will remain fair and dry. Temperatures will be seasonal to mild. Highs in the 50's and 60's today, mostly 50's Saturday. Lows tonight and Saturday night ranging from the 20's north to 40's south.
Trajectory weather: Austin: Partly to mostly cloudy through the forecast. High in the 60's today, near 60 Sunday. Low tonight in the 30's. Junction / San Angelo: Mostly cloudy today, high in the low 60's. Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday, low in the low 30's, high in the 50's.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** Moderate Threat *** Pollen release expected. Conditions are mostly favorable with similar weather to Friday. Residents of the Edward's Plateau (today)....and areas extending to the northwest into southeast New Mexico (tonight and Sunday).... may feel some ill effects from today's release. TK
Trajectory Start(s) (shown by * 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: Aerobiology Lab e-mail: pollen@utulsa.edu
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