WeatherGuesser wrote:TheProfessor wrote: I'd rather have a super cell stall right on top of me or a squall line train over me. We really need the rain.
No, you don't want that. You want a good, long, gentle, soaking rain over a few days.
We do need gentle, soaking rains.
But I'm afraid that many lakes - and in some parts of the state, most - are so incredibly low that it will take flash flooding type rains to fill them up again.
Case in point - nearby Lake Texoma reached its lowest level ever in 1957 after the 1952-57 drought in Oklahoma (and northwestern Texas too, both of which feed Texoma by way of the Red River and the Washita River).
The lowest level ever recorded at Texoma was 599.94 feet above sea level on March 20, 1957. (It's at 608.24 right now, the lowest since 1979).
But by May of 1957, the lake surged upwards after heavy rains (especially in mid-May) and topped the emergency spillway for the first time ever at 640.00 feet.
From lowest to highest in a little more than two months, but it took some SERIOUS rain to get it done.