Short-term forecast on this New Year’s Eve afternoon, National Weather Service, Norman

.REGIONAL WEATHER DISCUSSION…

EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT WAS STRETCHED ACROSS
WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA…FROM NEAR MANGUM TO WEATHERFORD…
GUTHRIE…AND STILLWATER. SOUTH OF THE FRONT…GUSTY WEST WINDS HAD
CARRIED COOL BUT VERY DRY AIR INTO AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40.
WITH TEMPERATURES MAINLY IN THE 40S…HUMIDITY WAS OBSERVED AT 13 TO
20 PERCENT AROUND SEMINOLE TO NORMAN…AND THROUGHOUT SOUTHWEST AND
SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA…AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.

TEMPERATURES ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE ARCTIC FRONT RANGED FROM THE
MIDDLE 30S NEAR THE FRONT…TO AROUND 20 DEGREES ALONG THE KANSAS
BORDER WITH NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA. WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH WILL PRODUCE
WIND CHILL TEMPERATURES GENERALLY IN THE TEENS AND 20S…BUT WITH
SOME SINGLE DIGITS IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA. BY 4 PM…THE ARCTIC FRONT
WILL MOVE TO NEAR QUANAH TEXAS…AND LAWTON TO CHANDLER IN OKLAHOMA.

A BAND OF THICK HIGH CLOUDS WILL OBSCURE THE SUN FROM NORTH TEXAS UP
THROUGH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA…WHILE PARTIAL SUNSHINE WILL CONTINUE IN
SOUTHEAST AND NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA.

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