Date Issued: 6 January 1998
Mountain Cedar location(s): Edwards Plateau, Texas
Regional weather: Wednesday, January 6 - TX/OK: Dry for today. Mostly cloudy early for eastern sections of both states. In the afternoon, sunny to partly cloudy region-wide. Highs in the 50's and 60's with some 70's south TX. Lows tonight in the 20's and 30's, with some 40's and 50's south and east TX. Cold front dropping down from the north will bring some changes to OK on Thursday.
Trajectory weather: Mostly sunny west.....cloudy with fog this morning east, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. High in the mid-to-upper 60's. Fair tonight..... clouds and patchy fog developing along the Austin trajectory.....low in the upper 30's. Variably to mostly cloudy on Thursday, high in the 60's.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** Moderate Threat *** Mixed conditions for pollen release today, tending towards the favorable side for the afternoon hours. Humid, foggy conditions towards the central and eastern sections of the Plateau are combining with calm to light winds to damper the pollen release situation as compared to Tuesday. Some release will occur, most likely during the afternoon hours and most likely from the western sections of the Plateau. Airborne pollen won't move very far during the next 24 hours. Persons most likely to be affected are those living in south-central, central, and north-central Texas. TK
Trajectory Start(s) (shown by green dot on map): Austin, TX; Junction, TX; San Angelo, TX
Austin, TX
Junction, TX
San Angelo, TX
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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