What kind of screwy weather you got down there

@paden-cash

I started this thread on the 23rd asking about an area reaching northwest from Enid.?ÿ At this very moment the radar is showing bright yellows and reds in the same area again and not moving off in any direction.?ÿ Can?ÿ you think of anything located out that way that might interfere with radar to make false information appear?

At times I have noticed a couple of spots southeast of Wichita that will show isolated reds and yellows when nothing else around even has light green to suggest moisture.?ÿ It appears to me that a massive amount of wind turbines are located almost exactly in the area of those two spots.?ÿ Anything like that starting about Enid then going northwesterly to engulf most of the county to the northwest?

@holy-cow

Can't think of anything HC.?ÿ The wind turbines are about the only man-made feature up there that I can think of, although they're actually only 100' to 150' AGL.?ÿ I'm more prone to consider the topography, the atmosphere and the radar itself.?ÿ?ÿ

When the zenith angle of radar is directed close to the horizon and (as in the case of looking for snow) the intensity is raised a lot of false echos can materialize.?ÿ This can be due to topographic surface features and stratified atmospheric layers.?ÿ Cool and dense air lying still in a valley can return a radar signature when there is nothing there but the humidity.

A couple of times a year the local weather folks always show the bats leaving the Selman Bat Cave up near Freedom.?ÿ They really have to turn up the radar to get an image.?ÿ When the radar is aimed low and turned up all the surrounding area looks like it's getting a storm when it's not.?ÿ The same goes for when they capture a radar image of the smoke from large range fires.

In the spring thunderstorm season the local TV stations like to "zoom in" on specific mesocyclones around the state. Once again the focus distorts a lot of the surrounding imagery.?ÿ?ÿ

I've noticed the Canadian River that runs southwest of town here shows up a lot as a "green elongated blob" on local radar in the AM.?ÿ A half hour later I'm crossing that river and there's nothing there but some low hanging fog.

Anyway, that's my best guess.?ÿ Got your ax in the back of the truck so you can bust the ice on the ponds and troughs?

Iƒ??m lovinƒ?? it!! ?????ÿ

@paden-cash

The site I use for radar on my desktop computer shows the weirdness NW of Enid but the radar on my phone does not.

No ax yet.?ÿ Our high today is 50 but will fall back to 34 tomorrow morning then keep dropping.?ÿ Very light drizzle now will go away by 11:00.

@flga-2

There's one in every crowd.?ÿ Think I will send a nun over to your house on random days.

@holy-cow

I just noticed the Great Salt Plains Lake area is "NW" of Enid.?ÿ I also noticed a "red and yellow" anomaly in the vicinity that doesn't move with the rest of the radar precip.?ÿ Maybe I'll remember to keep my eye on it over the course of the next hour or two.

We might be 'on' the next great conspiracy...?ÿ?ÿ

@paden-cash

Here's what I'm seeing.?ÿ Earlier it was obvious the red and yellow there were not moving while everything else was.?ÿ This is wacky though.?ÿ You have to click inside the box for the view to come up.?ÿ It holds for about a second, then goes black for three or four seconds then reappears for a second, then...............................

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@holy-cow

Ask her to wear ƒ??the outfitƒ? Paden gave her last year. ?????ÿ

@flga-2

I will.?ÿ But, she will be past 85 and will have received her parochial school's "Most Effective Behavior Modifier" award for over 50 years running.

@holy-cow

Cease and desist Senior Bovine, Iƒ??m getting flashbacks and they ainƒ??t good ones.?ÿ

Last evening we had light rain for a couple of hours, then a few hours of freezing rain followed by snow flurries.?ÿ Probably a quarter inch of ice with maybe 3/4 inch of snow hiding it from view.?ÿ The radar indicates we are in a gap with no precipitation now.?ÿ Wrong.?ÿ Snowing steadily in big flakes now.?ÿ The cedar trees look like inverted cones from the weight of the ice and snow.?ÿ 34 degrees is the perfect temp to get any sort of precip for the rest of the day then dropping into the low 20's tonight.

Working at the computer sounds like a good idea until worthwhile football finds its way to free TV.

bottom dropped out here yesterday and it rained solidly through about 2 pm. I took the dogs for our final run of 2020 around 4, it was cold enough that old grandpa dog could handle the full 10k (heƒ??s usually only good for about 2 miles anymore).?ÿ

about 4 miles into it the clouds started unloading... graupel. I took a pellet straight to the eyeball.?ÿ

seemed like a fitting end to the year.

65?ø this morning, showers moving through, now 72?ø, not bad compared to others.

It's the equivalent of July 1 in the Southern Hemisphere.?ÿ Bet someone will check in soon and inform us it is hot enough to fry eggs on the sidewalk today.

@holy-cow

one of my buddies lives in rio.?ÿ i get near daily updates from him.?ÿ so yeah, good guess.