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2012 weather records for Tulsa and Oklahoma
Published: 6/29/2012 10:57 AM
Last Modified: 6/29/2012 11:02 AM

Station 20 Capt. Kofi Wallace and rookie firefighter Jared Crowder demonstrate June 26, 2012, an "on scene" rehab station used to monitor and cool off firemen at fires in hot weather. Firefighters come off the fire line after depleting one air bottle, strip off their bunker gear, drink at least 8 oz. of water while their vital signs are monitored and they submerge their arms into buckets of water to cool their body temperature. Surprisingly, the hot weather hasn't resulted in many new weather records yet for Tulsa. MICHAEL WYKE/Tulsa World

Last year, I wrote both a blog entry and a newspaper article (actually, I wrote many blogs and many articles) on the 2011 weather records.

So, how about it, 2012? Are you going to be an extreme year filled with milestones and records? Here's how Tulsa and Oklahoma are faring so far:

March:

Warmest on record statewide, 59.6 degrees

Gary McManus, Oklahoma Climatological Survey associate state climatologist, said that this state average was 10.5
degrees above normal, with records dating back to 1895.

In case you're wondering about Tulsa, we were third-warmest on record. I had an article on it here.

April:

52 tornadoes statewide in April

McManus said this beat the record, set in 2011 (50 tornadoes). Records on this statistic date back to 1950.

Spring:

Warmest on record statewide, 65.2 degrees

McManus said that this average was 6.5 degrees above normal. Once again, meteorologically, here are your seasons:

Winter: December-February
Spring: March-May
Summer: June-August
Fall: September-November

First five months of the year, cumulative:

Warmest such period statewide, 56.24 degrees

McManus said this was 5.5 degrees above normal. In addition, he said that first 6 months will likely also be a record once June ends. It is apparently not even close. We are just having really, really hot temperatures for this time of the year.

June:

Tulsa's hottest June 25

According to the National Weather Service, our 105-degree high tied an existing record set in 1933.

I will be back later this summer to update on these weather records!

--Althea Peterson

PS: What is more unpredicatable than Oklahoma's weather? Being a mom. Check out my first entry in Tulsa World's newest blog "Because I Said So: Perspectives in parenting" here. Some other parents at the Tulsa World are also contributing. You can also follow the new blog on twitter here.

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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

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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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