Today is forecast to be Much Warmer than yesterday.
Nowcast as of 6:31 am CST on November 22, 2008
Now
regional weather discussion... Cold weather continued early this morning. Dry and cold high pressure was centered over the lower Mississippi River valley...but this broad air mass also stretched westward across the plains. At 6 am...temperatures throughout western North Texas and Oklahoma... were in the 20s and 30s. Winds were from the southeast at 5 to 15 mph...producing wind chills about 5 to 10 degrees colder than the air temperatures. After sunrise...temperatures will begin to warm...approaching 40 degrees by 10 am. Winds will also increase...however...and this will keep wind chills down in the 20s and 30s.
There are currently no warnings or advisories for this location.
Public Information Statement
Statement as of 12:49 am CST on November 22, 2008
... Record lows set at gage and Hobart in western Oklahoma...
On Friday morning... November 21... the temperature at gage plummeted to 13 degrees. This broke the previous record for the date... which had been 17 degrees set back in 1988.
Also on Friday morning... Hobart dropped to 21 degrees. This broke the previous record low for the date... which had stood at 22 degrees since 1964.
Interestingly... Hobart had tied a record high temperature as recently as Wednesday of this week... when the Mercury peaked at 79 degrees just before the arrival of a strong cold front.
