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Final tally: Tulsa weather milestones for 2012
Published: 1/14/2013 2:59 PM
Last Modified: 1/14/2013 2:59 PM

I kept a running tally of Tulsa's weather milestones (information from the National Weather Service) all year long. Here's your final results:

Tulsa weather milestones of 2012

Highest temperature: 112 on July 31, Aug. 1 and Aug. 2 (Record: 115 on Aug. 15, 1936)

Lowest temperature: 14 on Dec. 26 (Record: -16 on Jan. 22, 1930)

Note: That one stayed the same most of the year, with 16 degrees on Feb. 12.

Hottest month (average): 88.9 degrees in July (Record: 91.7 degrees on July 1980)

Coldest month (average): 43.6 degrees in December (Record: 21.7 in January 1918)

Note: That one also stayed most of the year. It was 44.2 degrees on average in January.

Most snowfall (day): 1.2 inches on Feb. 13 (Record: 13.2 inches on Feb. 1, 2011)

Most snowfall (month): 1.2 inches in February (Record: 22.5 inches in February 2011)

Most rainfall (day): 3.32 inches on June 4 (Record: 9.27 inches on May 26-27, 1984)

Most rainfall (month): 6.24 in March (Record: 18.18 inches on September 1971)

Highest wind speed: 41 mph on Aug. 4

Previous day with any rain: Dec. 31

Previous day with 1 inch or more of rain: Oct. 17

Previous day with any snow: Dec. 28

Note: No snow from Feb. 13 through most of December.

Previous day with freezing temperatures: Dec. 30

As we are now two weeks into 2013, I will be starting a new milestones list on this blog. You can check it out at any time below our weather almanac on the right side of the screen off the weather blog.

--Althea Peterson

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Thanks for the weather almanac--I just hope I'll remember it!!

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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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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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