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January 2012 to August 2001: The month that could have been

1/31/2012 5:00 AM

My eyes got wider as I started to look through Tulsa's all-time weather records.

Driest month in more than a decade?

The date was Jan. 18. We were having ...

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Believe it or not, it really is winter

1/30/2012 1:02 PM

I was looking for any reminders of winter for this blog entry, since it’s going to be near 70 degrees today (and tomorrow, and in the 60s most of this week). Yes, it’s ...

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A new plant hardiness map! Ahead, what that means for your weekend...

1/27/2012 2:00 PM

You couldn’t tell by standing outside this afternoon, but as it turns out, it’s still the middle of winter.

While it may feel like spring and you might want ...

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Texas and Alabama tornadoes and Oklahoma drought updates

1/26/2012 12:25 PM

There were at least 10 tornadoes early Monday in Alabama, according to the latest National Weather Service reports via the Associated Press.

An outbreak of storms ...

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Texas and Alabama tornadoes, Washington snow and rain everywhere (Tulsa included)

1/25/2012 3:28 PM

In a nutshell, last week's weather was really active nationwide.

Let's start in one corner of the country and meander our way back to Tulsa:

Seattle snow ...

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Strongest solar radiation storm in nearly seven years hitting Earth

1/24/2012 12:00 AM

UPDATE: The Space Weather Prediction Center is now saying this is the largest solar radiation storm since October 2003. I'm super serial: check out the SWPC's Facebook ...

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Argh, that Tulsa wind blows

1/23/2012 11:24 AM

The weather noise outside that freaked my dogs out last night was not an earthquake or a thunderstorm for once.

According to the Oklahoma Mesonet, winds across ...

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2011 was the 11th warmest, second wettest year on record globally

1/20/2012 3:36 PM

This morning was cold. Way colder than I thought it was going to be. And drizzling. So, generally, it was a pretty gross morning compared to the temperate and sunny weather ...

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Oklahoma drought update: "Evapotranspiration!"

1/19/2012 2:21 PM

Someday, I will find a way to include the word 'antidisestablishmentarianism' in this blog.

Until then, I will settle for this word: ' Evapotranspiration .'
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Tulsa's January weather records and normals

1/18/2012 5:33 PM

When considering precipitation for records, there is snow, and then there's precipitation.

As explained in this blog entry , precipitation is technically snow, ...

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At least it's cold during the week?

1/17/2012 3:46 PM

I envy all those folks who had Monday off. Not only could you focus on a man who worked to help lead a movement that forever changed this country , but you could enjoy ...

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MLK Day weather is unseasonably warm. How did other Tulsa holidays fare?

1/16/2012 4:49 PM

I hope that our unseasonably warm Martin Luther King Jr. Day here in Tulsa was enjoyable for all of you.

As of 4 p.m. today, it was 71 degrees in Tulsa. That's ...

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Almanac

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

	Temperature		Precipitation
Date	High Temp	Low Temp	Total	Month to date	Historical average
1	44°	16°	0	0.00	0.05
2	59°	24°	0	0.00	0.11
3	57°	33°	0	0.00	0.16
4	68°	37°	Trace	0.00	0.21
5	69°	29°	0	0.00	0.26
6	66°	33°	0	0.00	0.32
7	59°	38°	0.05	0.05	0.38
8	51°	34°	0	0.05	0.44
9	44°	36°	0.01	0.06	0.51
10	62°	37°	0.07	0.13	0.57
11	54°	28°	0	0.13	0.64
12	44°	30°	0.25	0.38	0.70
13	55°	40°	0.01	0.39	0.76
14	°	°			0.83
15	°	°			0.89
16	°	°			0.95
17	°	°			1.02
18	°	°			1.09
19	°	°			1.16
20	°	°			1.23
21	°	°			1.31
22	°	°			1.38
23	°	°			1.46
24	°	°			1.53
25	°	°			1.61
26	°	°			1.69
27	°	°			1.77
28	°	°			1.85

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Tulsa weather milestones of 2013 (as of Feb. 12)

Highest temperature: 70 on Jan. 11 (Record: 115 on Aug. 15, 1936)
Lowest temperature: 15 on Jan. 16 (Record: Minus-16 on Jan. 22, 1930)
Hottest month (average): 40.5 degrees in January (Record: 91.7 degrees on July 1980)
Coldest month (average): 40. 5 degrees in January (Record: 21.7 in January 1918)
Most snowfall (day): 0.1 of an inch on Feb. 12(Record: 13.2 inches on Feb. 1, 2011)
Most snowfall (month): 0.1 of an inch in February(Record: 22.5 inches in February 2011)
Most rainfall (day): 0.91 of an inch on Jan. 29 (Record: 9.27 inches on May 26-27, 1984)
Most rainfall (month): 1.54 of an inch in January (Record: 18.18 inches on September 1971)
Highest wind speed: 30 mph on Jan. 30
Previous day with any rain: Feb. 12
Previous day with 1 inch or more of rain: Oct. 17, 2012
Previous day with any snow: Feb. 12
Previous day with freezing temperatures: Feb. 12
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Contributors
Staff Writer Althea Peterson started writing for the Tulsa World in March 2007 after previous stops at the Norman Transcript in 2006 and the Oklahoma Gazette in 2005. She followed her older brother from rural Wisconsin (with a public school that never seemed to call snow days) to the University of Oklahoma, but did not follow his pursuit to study meteorology. However, she tries to find as many opportunities to report on the weather as possible.

Staff Writer Jerry Wofford came to the Tulsa World in 2010 from The Manhattan Mercury in Manhattan, Kan. Originally from western Arkansas and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Jerry has lived in Tornado Alley his entire life and is one of those people who goes outside when the sirens go off.

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