Date Issued: 18 January 2000
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Tuesday, January 18 - TX/OK: Dry cold front across the northern sections. Clouds and some moisture in OK and parts of southern and eastern TX, but little to no precipitation expected. Mostly late night and early morning clouds and fog for parts of TX, becoming partly cloudy to sunny by afternoon and very warm. Highs today and Wednesday ranging from the 50's north to 80's south. Lows tonight from the 30's to 50's.
Trajectory weather: Mostly cloudy today, high in the mid-50's. Partly to mostly cloudy tonight with fog developing late, low in the 50's. Morning fog Wednesday, then partly cloudy and warm, high in the low 80's.
Trajectory confidence: High for the first 18 hours, then low, but the wind shift is reasonable.
OUTLOOK: *** Mild Threat *** Conditions are mixed but mostly unfavorable. Temperatures are on the low side but will be favorable during the afternoon. The humidity has remained high all morning and is only falling slowly. Winds are light to moderate. Some pollen will be released, but amounts should be low. Residents of southern OK and north-central TX are the most likely to feel any ill effects from today's release. 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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