Date Issued: 16 January 1998
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Saturday/Sunday, January 16/17 - TX/OK: Warm and dry through the period. Some high cloudiness on hand west and north; late-night/early-morning low clouds or fog eastern sections. Highs mostly in the 60's and 70's both days, lows tonight in the 30's north and west, 40's and 50's south and east.
Trajectory weather: Mostly sunny today, partly cloudy tonight. High in the mid-60's, low near 40. Mostly sunny on Sunday, high in the mid-60's.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** SERIOUS Threat *** The weather here is not as conducive to pollen release as in Texas but conditions will be favorable during the afternoon hours. Shifting winds will keep airborne pollen relatively near the source for the next 24 hours, then move it southeast. Areas most likely to be affected are south-central Oklahoma and extreme north-central and northeast Texas. On Sunday.....pollen will track to the southeast from this source. Similar areas will be affected....south-central OK and northeast Texas. 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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