Is Oklahoma behind on this snowfall so far this season?

Are we snowfall this week, and are we behind on totals so far for the season?

On Tuesday a system known as a mid-level low will transfer throughout the state and convey moisture with it. As temperatures are set to drop on Tuesday afternoon and night, this will arrange an opportunity for snowfall for elements of the state. Right now, what continues to be being watched is the precise observe of the low system — that may decide simply how a lot snowfall we might or might not see and who might have the most important impacts from this occasion.

The present forecast is a chilly rain beginning early Tuesday with snow mixing in, particularly alongside the Oklahoma and Kansas state line. The present projection of the system is from west Texas up via Oklahoma, and lifting northeast towards Arkansas.

When the forecasted climate system strikes throughout northeastern Oklahoma towards northwest Arkansas, we’ll probably see our greatest likelihood for a snowfall prevalence.

As far as totals this season, we amassed 0.3 inches in November and 1.5 inches in December.

“The ‘normal’ snowfall total through the end of December would be 2.5 inches, and we’ve had 1.5 inches. … Because we don’t get much snow in this part of the world, saying we are behind in snowfall at this point in the winter isn’t saying a whole lot,” mentioned Nicole McGavock, meteorologist with the Tulsa National Weather Service.

“It would only take one snowfall event to drastically change it from below to above normal.”

McGavock added that being above or beneath common actually issues extra in areas farther north within the nation and within the mountainous areas the place there a thick snowpack develops via the winter and offers snowmelt within the spring.

“Here that is just not the case since we do not rely on snowmelt for water,” McGavock mentioned.

The regular complete snowfall via the tip of January is 4.4 inches.

So we’ll nonetheless have to attend and see how Tuesday’s storm performs out earlier than we all know how January will evaluate to the “normal” totals.

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