1. Mesonet and Drought Update

2. What’s new? What’s new? What’s the current drought situation? What’s next?

3. The new National Weather Center is Oklahoma’s new Weather Center

4. Two OSU Cowboys at OU 120 David L Boren Boulevard

5. Officed at Oklahoma Climatological Survey

6. Derek Arndt Acting State Climatologist

7. OCS Computer Lab

8. NWC Auditorium

9. NWC Atrium

10. National Weather Center Highway 9 and Jenkins Ave, Norman, Oklahoma

11. What’s new? What’s the current drought situation? What’s next?

12. 2006 Threw Many $500 Million Farm Loss

13. 2006 Farm Loss (Mark Hodges, Loss Mitigation, 10/18/06) Cotton$17,678,000 Hay$139,975,000 Peanuts$7,148,000 Rye$2,644,000 Sorghum$5,035,000 Soybeans$28,348,000 Wheat - Grain$204,540,000 Wheat - Grazing$101,500,000 TOTAL FARM LOSS($519,978,000)

15. US Drought Monitor Categories

17. Rainfall - Last 30 Days

18. Available Water Rooting depth Soil type Soil compaction

19. Available Water (inches)

20. Fractional Water Index 10-inch --- Jan 1, 2007

21. Fractional Water Index

22. 10” depth FWI Jan 1 2007 24” depth FWI Jan 1 2007

23. 10” depth FWI Oct 13 2006 24” depth FWI Oct 13 2006

24. 2-inch 10-inch 24-inch 30-inch Stillwater, Fractional Water Index 11/10/06 to 12/10/06

25. Marshall - 10/16/05 to 12/15/05 OSU Variety Trial Average - 28 bushels 2-inch 10-inch

26. Lahoma - 10/16/05 to 12/15/05 OSU Variety Trial Average - 67 bushels 2-inch 10-inch

27. Jan 1 2007 Jan 1 2006 Jan 1 2005 Fractional Water Index 10-inch

28. What’s new? What’s new? What’s the current drought situation? What’s next?

29. Climate Trends

33. May Rainfall - Division 2

34. January Rainfall - Division 2

35. Looking ahead - Forecasts

36. Developing El Niño

40. Air Temperature Forecast

41. Wind Forecast

42. Precipitation Forecast

43. agweather.mesonet.org

44. Oklahoma Mesonet “ Oklahoma’s Weather Network”

45. Stillwater Mesonet Tower

46. Oklahoma Mesonet Established 1994

47. Air temperature Rainfall Relative humidity Soil moisture Soil temperature Solar radiation Station pressure Wind direction Wind speed Mesonet measurements

48. --- Before Agweather data can be viewed, you must first download the WxScope program --- WxScope download

49. Plan for tough times! Make the most of good times!

50. Albert Sutherland Albert.Sutherland@okstate.edu Laura McKay Laura.McKay@okstate.edu Phone: 405-325-3126