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A winter escape to Australia

7/16/2011 6:16 PM

I was getting tired of Tulsa’s redundant forecast for the coming week, so I searched for the opposite. How is winter in the southern hemisphere going?

In that ...

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Feeling hot? At least it's not 1980.

7/15/2011 7:00 AM

This is not the hottest July in Tulsa (yet). This is just a tribute.

I had a reader inquire about the July 1980 weather records, noting our Aug. 1, 1980, front ...

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Wyoming and Denver hit by a summer hailstorm

7/14/2011 4:35 PM

No, that isn't a summer snowfall.

The Associated Press reports delayed and canceled flights in Denver from hail damage overnight.

It's not just a matter of ...

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Midwest flooding to persist

7/14/2011 12:00 AM

Tulsa finally saw a bit of rain Tuesday and Wednesday. How exciting!

Though it was not nearly enough to make a difference in our worsening drought , some ...

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Why is everything wet outside?

7/13/2011 9:41 AM

Oh yeah! Rain!

Much of the Tulsa area, especially spots north, got at least some measurable rainfall yesterday and showers continue their march eastward this morning.

Some ...

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When weather damages Oklahoma roads

7/12/2011 7:00 AM

Sometimes, you don't need to check weather forecasts (available here !), be outdoors or look out the window to know if it has rained, or there were high winds or freezing ...

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Would Tulsa be subjected to water rationing?

7/11/2011 3:56 PM

Temperatures are high, rainfall is low.

No doubt you noticed part of Rogers County is urging water conservation and Oklahoma City is now under water restrictions ...

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When Oklahoma road projects are held up by weather

7/11/2011 7:00 AM

When the Oklahoma Department of Transportation sends out traffic construction notices, they always include the phrase 'weather permitting.'

In the understatement ...

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Guess what this post is about

7/9/2011 8:41 PM

Cold? Nope. Rain? Haha.

It appears that Tulsa broke another temperature record this week; with a 108-degree high recorded at Jones Airport, we exceeded by one degree ...

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Budget cuts could affect forecasters' ability to predict weather

7/8/2011 7:00 AM

A storm is raging in Washington D.C. right now. How do our leaders make a sensible budget that provides the things we have come to expect without putting us in the poorhouse?

Well, ...

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Images and info on Arizona's dust storm, aka "haboob"

7/7/2011 10:54 AM

In Oklahoma, ice storms cause lots of power outages. In Arizona, the culprits are dust storms.

According to the Associated Press, a massive dust storm, also called ...

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A new month, new weather records to break

7/6/2011 7:00 AM

As Jerry previously mentioned here , Tulsa's June tied heat records. But, new month, new records ready to fall. If Tulsa's July is going to be a record setting/breaking/tying ...

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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

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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