Thursday, September 5th 2024, 10:31 pm
A cold front approaches northern Oklahoma and brings a slight chance for a few showers of storms across the northern third of the state. This probability will remain low.
What is the forecast for Friday?
Later Friday morning, the front will continue progressing southward and may trigger a few spotty showers across southeastern Oklahoma.
A strong upper-level system will move from southern Canada into the far northern part of the country, centering up across the Great Lakes this weekend. The mid-level ridge of high pressure will remain anchored across the Desert Southwest.
This creates a northwest upper airflow across the central and southern Plains states. This flow can bring a disturbance near the area late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, but most data remained void of any precipitation. We’ll continue to watch and monitor for any shower or storm opportunities, but for this forecast update, probabilities will remain below the mentionable categories for the late-night and early-morning weekend hours.
The highlight of this pattern will be cooler and relatively drier air arriving later Friday afternoon and evening. Friday supports highs in the mid to upper 80s, but cooler weather arrives late Friday night. This will bring Saturday morning lows into the upper 50s and lower 60s.
Saturday highs will stay in the upper 70s near 80. Sunday morning features the coolest weather area wide. Many locations will start in the 50s, including the Tulsa Metro in the upper 50s. Sunday afternoon features sunshine and a return of highs in the lower 80s.
Early next week, temperatures will slowly rise with morning lows in the 60s and daytime highs approaching the upper 80s. At this point, no major storm system is anticipated across our immediate area for the next several days.
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Northeast Oklahoma has various power companies and electric cooperatives, many of which have overlapping areas of coverage. Below is a link to various outage maps.
Indian Electric Cooperative (IEC) Outage Map
Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives Outage Map - (Note Several Smaller Co-ops Included)
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The Alan Crone morning weather podcast link from Apple:
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