The flood watch for portions of Arkansas and Oklahoma will be in effect from Wednesday evening through Thursday afternoon.
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Residents of Oklahoma City can expect mostly sunny weather today with temperatures reaching around 60 degrees. A light southwest wind of 6 mph is also forecast. Tonight, cloud coverage will increase, and temperatures will drop to about 42 degrees with calming south southwest winds after midnight, according to the National Weather Service.
The agency forecasts snow accumulations of 12 to 18 inches during this time for areas above 6,000 feet, while areas over 4,000 feet should expect 3 to 6 inches. On Saturday, wind gusts could reach 50 miles per hour in speed, with travel becoming "very difficult to impossible."
The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued an extreme cold warning for the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, effective until noon CST Tuesday. Wind chills could plummet
A sprawling winter storm that is pushing slowly across the United States will bring a risk of severe weather and excessive rainfall to a large part of the south-central United States from Wednesday into Friday. Isolated thunderstorms, flooding rains and damaging winds are all possible in an area between East Texas and western Kentucky.
The Old Farmer's Almanac, which has been in business since 1792, recently released its spring weather forecast. The outlook? "Warmer-than-normal temperatures for most of the country, with a few exceptions: southern and central California, Desert Southwest, southern Florida, and western Ohio Valley, where it will be near to below normal."
Thunderstorms Wednesday night may cause heavy rainfall, the weather service predicted on Monday. Temperatures are expected to warm up during the week with daytime highs in the 50s and lower 60s and overnight lows moderating to 40s and low 50s by mid-week.
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