Date Issued: 15 January 1998
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Friday, January 15 - TX/OK: Weak disturbance moving through OK/N TX today and tonight but nothing more than a few clouds associated with it along with a little cooling behind it. Warm and dry today and Saturday. Highs in the 60's and 70's today.......50's in OK on Saturday, 60's and 70's TX. Lows tonight in the 30's and 40's.
Trajectory weather: Mostly sunny today, high in the 60's. Becoming mostly cloudy tonight, low in the mid-30's with a chance of light rain after midnight. Cloudy with a chance of light rain on Saturday, high in the 40's.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** SERIOUS Threat *** Conditions have changed dramatically since yesterday and are now favorable for pollen release. Strong winds may drive airborne pollen a great distance in a short time today and tonight. Residents of Oklahoma City....Tulsa...and Bartlesville may be affected this afternoon. Southeast Kansas and north-central Missouri will have some airborne pollen moving through overnight. The humiditiy and chance of rain comes into play by Saturday morning. Potential effects should diminish by that time. TK
Trajectory Start(s) (shown by green dot 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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