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Yes, Oklahoma is still getting earthquakes, too

8/13/2011 7:00 AM

In the midst of these record setting hot temperatures , these record setting rainfall days , or nationwide record setting average statewide temperatures , you ...

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So... which plants survived to see this rainfall?

8/12/2011 7:00 AM

I need any and all gardening and lawn care advice, stat.

The following is a series of pictures I took after the weekend rainfall, but before the heavy downpour of ...

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Water, water, everywhere

8/11/2011 7:41 AM

Well, I’m not talking about massive flooding or an ancient mariner . I am talking about the massive amount of rain that fell on northeast Oklahoma Wednesday as storms ...

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Why do storm systems appear to move from west to east?

8/10/2011 7:00 AM

If it's raining in Stillwater, Oklahoma City, or southwestern Kansas, get excited! It's likely headed Tulsa's way.

For the past several years of eyeing the radar ...

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We're going to be spoiled by all this rain

8/9/2011 6:15 AM

Another round of storms Monday night brought more rain to northeast Oklahoma. This is gettin' good!

It looks like we are finally getting some decent, somewhat-medium ...

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A case against closed cars, kids and dogs during these hot temps

8/8/2011 7:00 AM

It was pure treadmill torture.

I was so focused on doing my token quarter-mile on the treadmill at the gym that I had not noticed that the upstairs area's air conditioning ...

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When it rains, it pours

8/7/2011 1:40 PM

On Friday, I mentioned there was a slight chance of rain forecast for many of the coming days. Well, we got it.

And a lot more.

Severe thunderstorms rolled ...

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Solar flares and space weather: When the sun acts up

8/6/2011 7:00 AM

As it turns out, the weather in Tulsa isn't the only weather getting meddled with by the sun.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a release ...

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Some rain would be nice

8/5/2011 12:46 PM

That headline may be the understatement of the year.

Looking at the current forecast , one might get their hopes up that you will be able to follow water ...

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What Tulsa times are the hottest and coolest Tulsa times?

8/4/2011 7:00 AM

You might have noticed our Tulsa World front page now regularly has weather updates, including the previous day's high and low temperatures and forecasted high for the ...

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August records are falling like the rain we need

8/3/2011 6:46 AM

I’m at my desk Wednesday morning, watching the local morning news anchors all take off their jackets and laugh and smile, presumably talking about this insanely offensive ...

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Tulsa's 100s: A history of triple-digit heat

8/2/2011 7:00 AM

If the number '100' didn't stick out, we wouldn't have been seeing 99-cent prices our entire lives.

In Fahrenheit, there really isn't much significance to it, but ...

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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
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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