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Turbulence: How to forecast it in time for holiday travel

11/30/2011 7:00 AM


I do not fear flying. I fear the weather surrounding my flight.

Perhaps its revisionist history, but I don't remember dealing with turbulence nearly as much as ... 

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Busy hurricane season comes to an end

11/29/2011 1:00 PM


We’re seeing freezing temperatures, parts of the country are seeing some good snowfall (including Memphis, where my friend believed she was escaping the snowy Kansas ... 

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Tulsa's cold temperatures: How they compare to all-time records

11/28/2011 12:40 PM


Tulsa has recorded a large amount of weather records this year, so naturally, when the weather makes a sharp turn for anything, the first question is: 'Was it a record?'
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Was there any drought improvement?

11/25/2011 11:51 AM

I hope everyone had an absolutely wonderful Thanksgiving and was able to enjoy at least some of the absolutely fantastic weather we had here for the holiday.

And, ... 

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Get the canoe ready... Heavy rain forecast tonight

11/21/2011 12:08 PM


In the middle of a drought, this is exactly what I wanted to read in this morning’s forecast discussion .

“HEAVY RAIN LOOKS A NEAR CERTAINTY TONIGHT.”

And ... 

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Rain and cold for OSU football; OU and Tulsa visit Texas' weather

11/18/2011 7:00 AM


A night trip to Ames, Iowa. A night trip to Waco, Texas. An afternoon in El Paso, Texas.

These are the weekend weather destinations for our state college football ... 

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Showers tonight. No, not that kind

11/17/2011 8:00 AM


If you can stand a little bit of cold, tonight would be a really good night to do so.

The Leonid meteor shower —one of the most reliable of the year—is set to ... 

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Graph shows Oklahoma tornadoes damage weather reading sites for Mesonet last week

11/16/2011 12:32 PM


A few days ago, I mentioned that the National Weather Service declared that Tipton's Nov. 7 tornado was the first EF4 in state history to happen in the month of November.
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The State of the Climate: Wacky

11/15/2011 7:30 AM

Weather-wise, October was a pretty average fall month here.

The average monthly temperature was pretty steady. The only record set was for low temperature when ... 

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Oklahoma tornado is state's first reported EF4 in November (with video)

11/14/2011 4:55 PM

I promised I'd follow-up as soon as more information was known about last week's tornadoes, so here goes.

A tornado that touched down at 2:54 p.m. Nov. 7 three ... 

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'Areas of blowing dust' forecast for OSU football in Lubbock; windy day forecast for TU football

11/11/2011 7:00 AM


This college football season started with severe thunderstorms, including two weather delays here in Oklahoma (Tulsa hosting Oklahoma State, OU hosting Texas Tech in ... 

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Updated info on recent Oklahoma earthquakes, tornadoes and rain

11/9/2011 12:50 PM


Yesterday I tried to answer all questions about the severe weather we've had in Oklahoma lately, but since there's updated info, I thought I'd share what I could on each.
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Almanac
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Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
TemperaturePrecipitation
DateHigh TempLow TempTotalMonth to dateHistorical 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
Read regular updates on Oklahoma's unpredictable weather and learn more about meteorology from the Tulsa office of the National Weather Service.

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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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