As promised, http://mesonet.org/ is showing wind sensors on the State's Mesonet failing.
Pretty much where the NWS is showing the most ice,
one can see zero wind speed. Yet, if you dare venture outside, the winds are obvious.
As I mentioned in yesterday's update, there may be "measles" on the map. Today there they are.
From Sid Sperry:
Freezing rain and ice accumulation has caused outages for a few electric cooperatives in Oklahoma overnight. The two electric cooperatives that appear to have the most outages due to ice accumulation at this time are Tri-County Electric Cooperative (TCEC, Hooker, OK) in the Oklahoma panhandle, reporting 3,867 outages as of 7:00 a.m., mostly in Texas County north and northwest of Guymon; and Cimarron Electric Cooperative, Kingfisher, OK, reporting 366 outages, mostly in the Hennessy, Kingfisher and Longdale areas. Northwestern Electric Cooperative in Woodward, OK, is reporting 15 outages, all in Woodward County, near the Sharon and Vici areas.
Total electric co-op outages as of 7:00 a.m. Friday morning: 4,251
Our friends at the Southern Region office wrote:
Today through Sunday
• A mix of wintry precipitation is expected to continue today across N NM, the TX/OK Panhandles and into W OK; will likely continue through Sunday morning
• Freezing rain expected to develop further southward tonight/Saturday morning and possibly again Saturday night/Sunday morning into west/SW TX
• Significant travel impacts from west of I-35 in OK into NM and spreading southward into the Permian Basin of TX by Saturday morning
• Widespread power outages likely from western OK into the TX Rolling Plains and southern TX Panhandle
• Heavy rain over eastern OK, much of AR, N/NE-SW TX expected through Sunday morning with flash flooding possible over these areas
• A mix of wintry precipitation is expected to continue today across N NM, the TX/OK Panhandles and into W OK; will likely continue through Sunday morning
• Freezing rain expected to develop further southward tonight/Saturday morning and possibly again Saturday night/Sunday morning into west/SW TX
• Significant travel impacts from west of I-35 in OK into NM and spreading southward into the Permian Basin of TX by Saturday morning
• Widespread power outages likely from western OK into the TX Rolling Plains and southern TX Panhandle
• Heavy rain over eastern OK, much of AR, N/NE-SW TX expected through Sunday morning with flash flooding possible over these areas
The State Emergency Operations Center is at Level Three (Monitoring). Those with WebEOC accounts may wish to participate.
Mr. Mowbray is duty officer in Altus. He has already handled one resident's concern. Please give him your full cooperation.
Use http://www.dps.state.ok.
Check http://www.srh.noaa.gov/
Summary:
IF you must travel, travel wisely. Plan what you will do with one or two days without power.
Be safe and observe the “National Day of Listening” http://bit.ly/1PfB9Eh
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