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See 14 years of radar data. Also, snow

2/10/2012 12:52 PM

This may be the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while.

Here we have 14 years of radar data in the United States, from May 2, 1997, to Dec. 31. That is a whole ...

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What were the coldest days in Tulsa and Oklahoma since November (and state drought update)

2/9/2012 10:02 AM

Our state drought situation is not getting worse, and you can thank the cold temperatures.

As our previously warm February descends into a more typical winter month's ...

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Was the glorified hampster (groundhog) right about winter?

2/8/2012 5:24 PM

Well… it looks like I could owe a rodent an apology.

Last week, the soothsayer of soothsayers Punxsutawney Phil said (by virtue of being told what to say by ...

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Rain inching along across Oklahoma, even the Tulsa area

2/7/2012 1:47 PM

This morning's commute provided gentle rainfall and a reminder that perhaps we'll beat our drought woes still.

So far this month, Tulsa has received 0.84 of an ...

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Snow continues to cripple Europe (and why I love the metric system)

2/6/2012 3:47 PM

You know it’s bad when the snow in your major capital city is being measured in meters.

For all of you out there who use the imperial system (RE: everyone reading ...

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Tulsa's 100 percent chance forecasts and Oklahoma drought update

2/3/2012 8:00 AM

As I write this late Thursday, the National Weather Service once again forecasted a 100 percent chance of rain, this time for Friday.

Having seen that on a few ...

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More like Punxsu-PHONY Phil, amirite?!

2/2/2012 11:39 AM

So, some kind of rodent crawled out of his Pennsylvania hole this morning and “saw his shadow,” which means a long winter.

What?

You know, he probably crawled ...

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Just how monumental was Blizzard 2011?

2/1/2012 6:00 PM

Last year was one for the record books. Just about every area that keeps track of such things had either a broken record or a threatened one.

That was thanks in ...

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Tulsa's snow was truly "Snowmageddon."

2/1/2012 7:15 AM

In honor of the one-year anniversary of Tulsa's record setting snowfall, we decided to do our first ever joint blog entry. We will be back later today with more snow ...

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Almanac

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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