Date Issued: 5 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 today with increasing cloudiness tonight. High in the low 50's, low in the 20's. Chance of light rain Sunday, high in the 40's.
Trajectory confidence: High.
OUTLOOK: *** Low to Mild Threat *** Conditions are mixed again today. Temperatures will be in the favorable range for a few hours during the afternoon, as will the humidities. We are near the end of the mountain cedar season so little pollen is available for release. Residents along and near the trajectory centerline..... including the metropolitan areas of Oklahoma City and Tulsa... may feel some ill effects this afternoon or tonight. 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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