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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – Oklahomans should prepare now for multiple rounds of steady rain March 5-11 that could create water-covered roads and rising creeks across much of the state.
According to the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center, Oklahoma sits within a 60 to 70 percent chance of above-normal precipitation during the March 5-11 period. The wet corridor stretches from the Upper Midwest through the Mississippi Valley and into parts of Texas and the Gulf Coast, favoring repeated rainfall events instead of a single storm system. Temperatures are also expected to trend above average statewide, increasing runoff potential…