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Guymon 94° | 59°
Ponca City 94° | 70°
Oklahoma City 94° | 70°
Amarillo 90° | 61°
Lawton 97° | 67°
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MO. OKLAHOMA: Today, morning Tulsa storms in the 94° | 70° ARK. north will move out. With southerly winds moving across the state, highs McAlester will have no 94° | 70° problem reaching the mid 90s.
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WEATHER TRIVIA:
ENID AND AREA: Today, sunny and breezy. High 93. South wind at 10-20 mph. Tonight, dry and mild. South wind at 10-20 mph. Low 70. Showers
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MOON PHASES
ENID ALMANAC YESTERDAY High: 84 Low: 64 Precipitation: .31 inches
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YEAR AGO TODAY RECORD THIS DATE High: 90 High: 104 in 1913 Low: 68 Low: 46 in 1903 Precipitation to date: 14.5 inches
TODAY Sunrise: 6:15 a.m. Sunset: 8:44 p.m.
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The Atlantic hurricane season begins today.
Ice
SOUTHWEST KANSAS: Today, 10 percent chance of show-
NEW 6/12
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ers and thunderstorms before 7 a.m. Partly cloudy, with a high near 96. Windy, with a south wind at 14-17 mph increasing to 22-25 mph. Tonight, partly cloudy with a low near 67. Breezy, with a southwest wind at 20-23 mph decreasing to 11-14 mph.
WATCH RICK MITCHELL AT 5/6/10 P.M.
Relief for Gulf is 2 months away with another well NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The best hope for stopping the flow of oil from the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has been compared to hitting a target the size of a dinner plate with a drill more than two miles into the earth. And it’s anything but a sure bet on the first attempt. Bid after bid has failed to stanch what already has become the nation’s worstever spill, and BP PLC is readying another patchwork attempt as early as Wednesday, this one a cutand-cap process to put a lid on the leaking wellhead so oil can be siphoned to the surface. But the best-case scenario of sealing the leak is two relief wells being drilled
diagonally into the gushing well — tricky business that won’t be ready until August. “The probability of them hitting it on the very first shot is virtually nil,” said David Rensink, incoming president of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, who spent most of his 39 years in the oil industry in offshore exploration. “If they get it on the first three or four shots they’d be very lucky.” For the relief well to succeed, the bore hole must precisely intersect the damaged well. If it misses, BP will have to back up its drill, plug the hole it just created, and try again. The trial-and-error process could take weeks, but it eventually will work, scientists and BP said. Then engi-
neers then will pump mud and cement through pipes to ultimately seal the well. As the drilling reaches deeper into the earth, the process is slowed by building pressure and the increasing distance well casings must travel before they can be set in place. Still, the three months it could take to finish the relief wells — the first of which started May 2 — is quicker than a typical deep well, which can take four months or longer, said Tad Patzek, chair of the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Department at the University of Texas-Austin. BP already has a good picture of the different layers of sand and rock its drill bits will meet because of the work it did on the blown-out well. On the slim chance the relief well doesn’t work, scientists weren’t sure exactly how much — or how long — the oil would flow. The gusher would continue until the well bore hole collapsed or pressure in the reservoir dropped to a point where oil was no longer pushed to the surface, Patzek said.
A supply vessel passes through oil floating near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana on Monday. (AP Photo)
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