Date Issued: 4 February 2000
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Friday/Saturday, February 4/5 - TX/OK: Clear to partly cloudy through Saturday region-wide, and dry. Some cloudiness may work into parts of west TX Saturday. Windy today many areas with the High governing the weather situated to the north. Highs both days ranging from the 40's to 60's, lows tonight from the 20's to 40's.
Trajectory weather: Fair through the forecast. High both days in the 50's, low tonight in the upper 20's.
Trajectory confidence: High.
OUTLOOK: *** Low to Mild Threat *** Conditions are mixed today. Temperatures will be marginally favorable during the afternoon. Humidity and wind conditions are both favorable. Some release is possible during the afternoon hours but we are near the end of the mountain cedar season, so little pollen will be released. Residents of southern OK and north-central TX near the trajectory centerline may feel some 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.
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