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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 |
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Dallas / Ft. Worth |
Low / Moderate |
Date Issued: 31 January 2001
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Wednesday, January 31 - TX/OK/AR: High pressure building in from the west. Decreasing clouds across the north; sunny to partly cloudy skies elsewhere. Clear tonight. Cloudy on Thursday in southeast and far southern TX with a chance of rain in far southern TX. Highs today mostly 40's to 60's, lows tonight mostly 20's to 40's.
Trajectory weather: Mostly sunny today, high in the low 50's. Clear tonight, low around 30. Partly sunny Thursday, high in the upper 50's.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** Moderate Threat *** Conditions are mixed for pollen release today. Temperatures near the source will top out near 50 today, partly favorable for release. Humidities will fall into the favorable range during the afternoon. Light to moderate winds today. Some pollen release is likely. Moderate Risk of exposure for south-central OK and extreme north-central TX. Low/Moderate Risk tonight (including eastern portions of the Dallas / Ft. Worth metro area)..... and Low Risk Thursday.... for other sections of eastern TX. 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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