FACTS FIRST
Norman desk. Numbers, not vibes.
Norman weather
Desk call · Sep 7 · full board100° through Wednesday. Thursday storm tease. Local TV desks on the board (News 9, KFOR, KOCO, Fox 25).
National five + Central OK TV. Hard 0/1 scored (thin). Soft 5–7 waiting. Season standings through Sep 10 on the full board. Full board →
How we score
Five fixed sources, snapped weekday mornings through day+6. Hard grades on 0/1/3/4; soft far-out on 5–7. Mesonet preferred for actuals, airport backup.
- Temperature: high and low within 2°F = hit.
- Rain (hard): PoP ≥50% counts as a rain call. Measurable precip is ≥0.01". Match = hit.
- Rain (soft): raw PoP kept for a quieter probability score over time. Timing and amounts stay in notes.
- Boards: hard ranks for 0-day, 1-day, 3-day, and 4-day. Days 5–7 are snapped and scored on a separate soft far-out board (thin skill, not the main trophy)—useful when everyone agrees early and only diverges later.
- Desk blend: labeled as ours, names who we leaned on. Not “better than NWS” until the sample is real.
Ten impaired-driving arrests. Ten shoplifting cases. Same week.
Norman Police blotter counts for Aug. 21–28: 10 arrests charged as DUI or APC, 10 distinct shoplifting cases, 3 from-auto thefts, 3 auto thefts or unauthorized use, 3 burglaries that were not from a vehicle, and 4 domestic-abuse labels. The department’s public PDFs for Aug. 29–Sept. 4 were missing or empty, so this week is the usable window, not a month.
Impaired-driving charges on the blotter are combined. Seven are labeled aggravated DUI/APC at or above .15 BAC. Three are DUI liquor or drugs / APCV. Ordinary arrestees are not named here. Counts are distinct cases in that window, from NPD daily PDFs.