Date Issued: 29 January 1998
Mountain Cedar location(s): Arbuckle Mountains, OK
Regional weather: Friday/Saturday, January 29/30 - TX/OK: Low pressure system directly over the region. Front draped to the south will move slowly through Texas overnight. Center of low pressure will move northeast from central Texas into eastern Oklahoma. Today......ice and snow northwest.....rain and showers or thunderstorms elsewhere. Highs from 30's northwest to 70's TX coast. Rain ending and some clearing on Saturday for central and southern TX but precipitation continuing northern TX and OK, with ice/snow west and north. Lows tonight 20's northwest to 50's TX coast. Highs Saturday 30's and 40's north, 50's and 60's south. Rain/snow ending all areas on Sunday with clearing from west to east.
Trajectory weather: Cloudy with rain likely today, high in the low 40's. Rain changing to snow overnight, low in the upper 20's. Mostly cloudy with a chance of light snow or light rain in the morning on Saturday, high in the 50's.
Trajectory confidence: High
OUTLOOK: *** Low Threat *** Pollen release is dropping in some areas now that the end of the season draws near. Wet weather wholly unconducive to pollen release today. Rain is expected to continue at the source on Saturday. Low Risk of pollen release/transport both days. 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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