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Challenge: Spotting the Oklahoma drought map differences

1/13/2012 9:54 AM

Happy Friday, you look like you could use a diversion.

Set the timer to 30 seconds and see if you can find the subtle, but present changes from last week's drought ...

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It snowed last night, but at least we're not in Alaska

1/12/2012 4:37 PM

I was sitting with my friend Spencer at a place on Cherry Street, watching the Thunder game and minding our own business when I looked outside and what do I see? Snow! ...

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Know your winter weather terminology in time for Tulsa's winter weather

1/11/2012 9:37 AM

When I type morning weather reports for this site, I have the tendency to interchange similar weather terms, like 'rain' and 'precipitation.'

Realizing that I've ...

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Nearly 20 inches of snow have fallen this season in...Midland, Texas?

1/10/2012 2:41 PM

While we haven’t had more than a trace of snow in Tulsa this year, more unlikely places have.

Midland/Odessa, Texas, area had nearly 11 inches of snow . Nadine, ...

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Two-week rainless streak could end this week

1/9/2012 1:41 PM

Everybody pry open your memory mind grapes and think back to the last time we had measurable rain in Tulsa. Long time, huh?

It’s been 13 days , in fact. The last ...

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It is so unseasonably hot in Tulsa and it's January

1/6/2012 3:39 PM

I wish I could forecast the weather like the meteorologists that I interview frequently.

My heavy winter jacket is off and it's January.

It's edging closer ...

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Sneaky Oklahoma drought update and La Niña in the southern hemisphere

1/5/2012 12:15 PM

When you have a weather phenomenon like La Niña, you have your have-nots (us) and your haves.

As Jerry mentioned yesterday, our have-not status is unquestioned: ...

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How crazy was 2011? NWS has the answers (with graphs!)

1/4/2012 5:43 PM

Saying that 2011 had some crazy weather is getting kind of tired. We lived through it, it’s still somewhat fresh in our minds.

But the Tulsa NWS office has put all ...

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A meteor shower you could actually see

1/3/2012 1:06 PM

In the meteor showers I’ve mentioned before, there was always a Debbie downer moment when I tell you that it is supposed to rain 3 inches or the moon will be so bright ...

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Fiesta Bowl weather forecast

1/2/2012 1:52 PM

The Fiesta Bowl host University of Phoenix Stadium is in Glendale, Arizona.

I had to google several things in preparation for my final college football weather ...

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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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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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