Date Issued: 27 January 1998
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Wednesday, January 27 - TX/OK: Low pressure/frontal system moving in from the northwest today. Variable cloudiness today....increasing to mostly cloudy all areas tonight and Thursday. Chance of rain after midnight tonight for most locales and continuing into Thursday. Warm today with highs in the 60's and 70's. Lows tonight ranging from 20's northwest to 60's TX coast. Cooler on Thursday behind the front with steady or falling temperatures during the day for many areas.
Trajectory weather: Variably cloudy today, high in the mid-60's. Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers after midnight tonight, low in the mid-40's. Good chance of showers on Thursday, temperatures dropping slowly into the low 40's.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** Moderate Threat *** Pollen release is dropping in some areas now that the end of the season draws near. Mixed conditions for pollen release. Some release is likely during the afternoon hours. Airborne pollen will be moving through central OK today....northeast OK, southeast KN, and southwest MO tonight. Some washout is possible overnight and likely on Thursday. Main threat is to people living in central and northeast OK, including the Oklahoma City and Tulsa metropolitan areas. 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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