Bust and Colder Weather

It appears as though I was a little overly anxious to chase when I decided to head west after work yesterday. I had toyed with the idea of just hanging out around Tulsa until something popped but once they issued the tornado watch at 4pm I decided to head west. I rolled out of Broken Arrow around 5:15 and ended up meeting Kelly Baker at Hwy 51 and I-35 west of Stillwater. At that point it was pretty obvious that the night was going to be a bust. We hung out for a while chatting and waiting to see if anything was going to form up near us. Once we noticed that the dryline hadn't moved more than about 15 miles all day we decided it was time to head back to Tulsa. The whole chase pretty much pissed me off. Besides the bust, I was having serious technical issues. My internet connection was absolutely horrible so I wasn't getting reliable radar updates on GR. I also couldn't get model data because of the wonderful T-mobile card I'm using. On top of that, WxWorx kept loosing connection for whatever reason. By the end of the night I was about to run over my laptop.

It looks like we have a big change coming in our weather. After several days in the 70's and 80's, we are about to return to the 30's and 40's. The map below is the OK Mesonet air temperature map valid at 10:30 this morning. As you can see, we are about to say goodbye to the 70's for several days. Hopefully this will be the last cold snap of the year and we can get on with the chase season and warmer lake weather.