Date Issued: 3 January 2000
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Monday, January 3 - TX/OK: Cloudy today in northern and eastern OK, eastern TX, and AR. Rain this morning in the Ozarks. Strengthening low pressure area in OK will move to the northeast today and tonight. Cold front trailing to the south will move with it. Chance of rain eastern sections today, clearing and colder behind the front and Low. Highs from the 40's northwest to 70's south today. Lows tonight in the 20's and 30's with some 10's Panhandle. Highs Tuesday from the 30's north to the 50's south.
Trajectory weather: Partly cloudy today, high in the low 60's. Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain late tonight, low in the low 40's. Becoming partly cloudy on Tuesday, high in the 50's.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** Low Threat *** Conditions are mostly unfavorable for pollen release today. Rain occurred yesterday in the source region. Temperatures and humidities are moving into the favorable ranges. Little release expected. Residents of southeast OK and southern AR may feel some ill effects. 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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