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KEY MESSAGES

Updated at 141 PM CDT Sat Oct 17 2026

- Mostly dry with a warming trend next week.

- No precipitation chances until late in the week.

NEAR TERM

(Rest of today and tonight) Issued at 141 PM CDT Sat Oct 17 2026

A 1035 mb surface high is located over southwestern Oklahoma with the surface ridge extending northeast through north central Oklahoma into Kansas. The ridge will continue to move southeast tonight with southerly winds developing over northwestern Oklahoma to the northwest of the ridge and southeast of the developing low over the Colorado High Plains. With this southerly flow, low temperatures Sunday morning will be higher than they were this morning across the northwest, but the light winds southeast near the surface ridge will low temperatures similar to this morning.

SHORT TERM

(Sunday through Monday night) Issued at 141 PM CDT Sat Oct 17 2026

Southerly winds will increase Sunday between the departing surface ridge and the deepening surface low over southeastern Colorado and northeastern New Mexico just east of the Sangre de Cristos. Thus starts the warming trend next week, although highs on Sunday and Monday will remain below seasonal averages. The large scale upper trough remains well west of the area early in the week and no significant precipitation chances are expected through the short term.

LONG TERM

(Tuesday through Friday) Issued at 141 AM CDT Sat Oct 17 2026

Very light shower activity could linger into Tuesday across western OK as the aforementioned wave passes by, but otherwise expect mainly dry conditions to persist into late next week until a larger trough along the west coast moves eastward, potentially bringing greater rain chances by next weekend. Model solutions remain varied with this system regarding its progression and amplitude, but for now the highest PoPs (20-40%) are favored across western parts of the area next Fri/Sat.

Temperatures are expected to be above average during this period, generally in the low to mid 80s for highs and 50s to low 60s for lows.

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AVIATION

(18Z TAFS) Issued at 1200 PM CDT Sat Oct 17 2026

Light winds will gradually come back around to southerly. VFR conditions will prevail.

Day

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS

Oklahoma City OK 40 63 45 68 / 0 0 0 0 Hobart OK 39 65 45 71 / 0 0 0 0 Wichita Falls TX 39 67 44 73 / 0 0 0 0 Gage OK 39 65 45 67 / 0 0 0 0 Ponca City OK 38 64 44 69 / 0 0 0 0 Durant OK 43 70 45 75 / 0 0 0 0

OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

OK...None. TX...None.