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Metropolitan Area |
Exposure Risk |
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Oklahoma City |
Low |
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Tulsa |
Low |
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St. Louis |
Low |
Date Issued: 30 January 2001
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Tuesday, January 30 - TX/OK/AR: Sunny to partly cloudy most areas except for far east. Warm with highs ranging from 40's to 60's. Windy most locations in the wake of the departing low pressure system. Breezy/windy on Wednesday also as high pressure builds in from the west. Lows tonight in the 20's to 40's. Cooler most areas on Wednesday.
Trajectory weather: Mostly sunny today, high near 60. Mostly clear tonight, low in the upper 30's. Becoming mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain late on Wednesday, high in the 50's.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** Moderate Threat *** Conditions are mostly favorable for pollen release today. Afternoon temperatures will be in the mid-50's. Humidities have dropped slowly through the late morning and midday time period and are approaching the 50% benchmark. These are borderline favorable but the air may be dry enough to support some release. Winds are moderate to strong. Some pollen release is likely. Moderate Risk of exposure for residents of south-central and southeast OK and southern AR. Exposure risk should decrease as the airborne pollen passes through central MS, becoming Low for residents of southwest AL. TK
Trajectory Start(s) (shown by black star 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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