Erratic weather patterns ushered in a frenetic springtime transition, as everything from heavy wind and hail to light rain and snow appeared in the forecast for different parts of Oklahoma overnight and into Friday morning.
An upper-level trough moved north from the Texas Panhandle and into southwestern Oklahoma Thursday afternoon, bringing colder and wetter weather after several days of warm temperatures. As the system moved into central Oklahoma, storms developed ahead of it, with meteorologists expecting high winds with possible hail in the Oklahoma City metro area.
The stormy prediction complicated an already-hectic forecast, with fire and wind advisories in southwestern Oklahoma on Thursday and snow projections for northwestern Oklahoma early Friday.