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Rain likely for Liberty Bowl between Tulsa and Iowa State

12/31/2012 10:35 AM

Just across the Arkansas border lies Memphis, Tennessee, the host of the Autozone Liberty Bowl between the Tulsa Golden Hurricane and the Iowa State Cyclones.

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Tornadoes a few hundred miles from blizzards: Crazy Christmas weather

12/28/2012 4:44 PM

We’ve talked a lot about how this week’s Christmas Day snowstorm missed us and tore up the east, but the same system produced deadly tornadoes in the south. It ...

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Snow photos and videos from around the U.S.

12/27/2012 4:41 PM

We have some bowl games coming up, so expect some football forecasts on those before the games. Until then, here's a look at the snow that completely missed Tulsa:

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So, just kidding about that snow

12/26/2012 3:40 PM

We may have hoped for a white Christmas in Tulsa, but after talking to family and friends in central Arkansas, we probably dodged a bullet.

That’s me looking on ...

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White Christmas dreams becoming reality

12/24/2012 9:35 AM

Your White Christmas dreams are about to become a reality. And they could become nightmares.

Winter Storm Warnings are now in effect for a large swath across ...

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Snow photos: From North Korea to the Midwest

12/21/2012 1:56 PM

Check out Jerry's entry here for more background on the recent Midwest blizzard . He talked about everything from thudersnow in Iowa to our own snowfall contest here.

First, ...

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Blizzard hits the Plains and snow on Christmas?! We'll see

12/20/2012 12:08 PM

The first major plains and Midwest snowstorm is blowing across the country, and it’s a doozie .

The snow missed us this time in Tulsa, but we got the wind and ...

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Conditions perfect for viewing tonight's meteor shower peak

12/13/2012 4:45 PM

If you can stand a little chill, tonight could be the night of the year for stargazing.

There could be two meteor showers that peak overnight tonight. The first ...

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Your guesses are in, now we wait for snow

12/11/2012 6:21 PM

The window for entries to Snowmageddon or nothing? You decide: The first Weather World snowfall contest is now over, and I am very pleasantly surprised by the involvement.

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Snow football: Photos from Detroit Lions-Green Bay Packers Sunday night NFL game

12/10/2012 4:35 PM

With all of the talk of snow in Oklahoma lately ( read my earlier forecast report here ), I thought I would share a few snow photos from last night's NFL game: The ...

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Weather World snowfall contest ends at 5 p.m.

12/7/2012 1:40 PM

There has been a steady trickle of people submitting their guesses for how much snow Tulsa will receive this winter, but the window for submissions is fast closing!

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Challenge: Spot the subtle Oklahoma drought differences

12/6/2012 11:42 AM

This is one of those weeks where the U.S. Drought Monitor's differences are so tiny that we have to take drastic measures to find the differences.

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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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RAINFALL

SNOWFALL

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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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