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Why your thermometer is wrong!

6/30/2011 7:00 AM


When Monday was declared as the first day in the 100s for Tulsa, did it surprise you?

After all, on your commute, didn't those business signs already declare the ... 

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Lamenting the loss of 100-degree weather (and remembering 2000 OU-UTEP football)

6/29/2011 7:00 AM


O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The rain came yesterday;
‘Twas a storm that visited Green Country,
And took 106 degree heat away.

With apologies to Henry ... 

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Record high broken in Tulsa

6/28/2011 6:30 AM


Not only was the record high temperature for June 27 broken yesterday, it was blown away.

Monday's temperature reached 106 degrees. 106. The previous high was ... 

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'Excessive heat' is an understatement

6/26/2011 8:08 PM


I just had to share this map. It's from the Oklahoma Mesonet Sunday evening. It shows the maximum heat index values reached today.

Only four of the 120 stations ... 

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Another Tulsa weather record in reach

6/25/2011 7:00 AM


Remember when Tulsa broke all those snowfall records back in February? For example, the record for most snowfall in a month (22.5 inches)?

Well, it's been almost ... 

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Fascinating rain photos from around the world

6/24/2011 7:00 AM


No, there is no Star Wars-theme to rain photos, despite the one I posted earlier this week here and the one here Yoda backpack.

Unlike Tulsa, as previously ... 

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With summer weather comes a change in allergens

6/23/2011 7:00 AM


I am one of those lucky people who can take a handful of fresh-cut grass, rub it in my face and run a mile afterward.

Now, I’m not trying to rub this in. Some of ... 

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Darth Vader gets rained on (and so does Tulsa)

6/21/2011 5:12 PM


Yes, I was just waiting for the perfect moment to share that image. I will be back on Friday to deliver more rain photos from around the world, perhaps in hopes that ... 

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And the lightning strikes

6/21/2011 7:00 AM


One of my favorite hobbies is sitting on the back porch at my folks’ house in Arkansas and watching storms roll across the pasture. The lightning shows there are really ... 

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When was Tulsa's last significant rain?

6/20/2011 11:50 AM


The temperatures are less tolerable, the lawn is less green and the plants look less happy.

How long, exactly, has it been since Tulsa's last significant rainfall?
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How hot is it?

6/18/2011 6:26 PM


I haven’t been outside much this afternoon, and I’m not sure that I’m both brave and hydrated enough to venture away from the Tulsa World’s powerful air conditioners. ... 

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See lightning photos and learn how to take them

6/17/2011 7:00 AM


With Thursday morning's storms, I thought some amazing lightning photos from around the world this month would be appropriate.

But before that, how can us non-professionals ... 

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Almanac
View 2012
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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