Date Issued: 21 January 2000
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Thursday-Saturday, January 20-22 - TX/OK: Cold front pushes all the way through the region today. High pressure building in from the north is in control. The high will move off to the east on Friday..... while the next system forms in the western sections of this region. Moisture levels will be on the increase each day, especially for SAturday. Chance of rain northern half of the region on Saturday. Highs ranging from the 40's north to 70's south each day with some 80's in parts of TX on Saturday. Lows mostly from the 20's north to 50's south.
Trajectory weather: Partly cloudy, high near 50. Becoming mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow late, low in the upper 20's. Cloudy with a chance of rain Saturday, high near 40.
Trajectory confidence: High.
OUTLOOK: *** Moderate Threat today... Low Saturday *** Conditions are mixed for pollen release today. Temperatures will be favorable during the afternoon. Humidities should lower into the tolerance range during the afternoon also. Some release expected..... with residents of central OK, including Oklahoma City, the most likely to be affected. On Saturday.... temperatures will be favorable for a few hours in the afternoon. Humidities will likely remain too high, though, and there's a chance of rain as well at the source. Little 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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