Date Issued: 7 February 2000
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Monday, February 7 - TX/OK: Cloudy in southern and eastern TX. Combination of weak surface front and upper-level disturbance moving through TX giving rise to some showers in southeast TX. Otherwise clear to partly cloudy and dry. Highs today and Tuesday ranging from the 50's to 70's, lows tonight mostly in the 20's to 40's.
Trajectory weather: Partly cloudy today, high in the mid-60's. Clear tonight, low in the 30's. Sunny Tuesday, high near 70.
Trajectory confidence: High.
OUTLOOK: *** Low to Mild Threat *** We are nearing the end of the season so there is little pollen available for release. Favorable conditions for pollen release during the afternoon. Temperatures are favorable and the humidity is falling rapidly at late morning. Some light release is expected. Those persons living near the source in southern OK and extreme north-central TX 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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