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Drought conditions best since Oct. 2010. Plus, waterfalls

3/26/2012 11:59 AM

A week ago today was the start of one of the wettest weeks we’ve had in Tulsa in several months.

Actually, on a broader scale, it was the start of one of the wettest ...

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What drought?

3/21/2012 12:25 PM

Well, at least your garden will look great this spring, right?!

Speaking of spring, how incredibly fitting that the first day of spring would be so spring-like. ...

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Hope your canoe is ready. Here comes the rain

3/19/2012 12:27 PM

Like I do, I was listening to the National Weather Service’s audio weather briefing Sunday morning about the forecasted flood event with my coffee and the Tulsa World ...

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Drought improvement last week, and lots more to come

3/16/2012 5:54 PM

It’s difficult to see drastic differences in our current drought from week to week; not a lot happens. But after the gully washer we had this week, the drought received ...

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Ding dong, winter is dead

3/14/2012 3:59 PM

I have hesitated to do this, but I think it’s time: Winter is dead and gone. It really is springtime now.

We’ve had more than an inch of snow as late as April in ...

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Most single-day rain since November, warmest temperature since October

3/13/2012 4:44 PM

Tulsa set a few weather milestones these past few days, so immediately, the question is: 'Is it is a record?'

First, the milestones:

On Sunday, Tulsa had ...

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It's not quite spring, but it is time to spring forward

3/10/2012 12:00 AM

There are lots of reasons to dislike winter. Mounds of dirty snow (though we didn’t have to worry about that this year); that frigid north wind from Canada ; gray, barren ...

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Photos of the northern lights. Amazing!

3/9/2012 1:38 PM

The solar flares might have fizzled, but they put on quite a skyward show.

The Associated Press reports that at its peak, it was the most potent solar storm since ...

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When Tulsa temperatures turn from hot to cold (or the opposite)

3/8/2012 4:34 PM

Just abbreviate 'Tulsa temperatures' as 'Tulsa temps,' because there is nothing more temporary than Tulsa temperatures, it seems.

After four straight days reaching ...

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Now it's the solar winds sweeping down the plains (of space)

3/7/2012 2:12 PM

Surface-level winds in excess of 45 mph have calmed down at least a little bit today. BUT, now we have another kind of wind to worry about. Solar winds!

A large ...

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Massive early spring tornado outbreak kills dozens

3/5/2012 3:05 PM

They say March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb.

Well, if last week’s massive and deadly tornado outbreak was the lion, I’d hate to meet the lamb.

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First day, meteorologically, of spring (and drought/fire/storms update)

3/1/2012 3:21 PM

If everything could be this simple and structured, we'd be measuring road distance in kilometers instead of miles.

Now, I know that Jerry said a few days ago that ...

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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

TEMPERATURE

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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