By WEATHER WORLD on Jan 4, 2012, at 5:43 PM Updated on 1/06 at 9:59 AM
WEATHER WORLD
At the cookout I went to Sunday evening, it was tank top, cutoff jean shorts and flip flops. My friend said to me, “you look ...
This blog was inspired by some of our early morning commenters on the weather forecast story .
Yes, as one of you pointed ...
The deluge earlier this month was exciting. For a second, I though that maybe the near-record parched May was just a fluke ...
Saying that 2011 had some crazy weather is getting kind of tired. We lived through it, it’s still somewhat fresh in our minds.
But the Tulsa NWS office has put all of the crazy weather we’ve had in one neat and tidy place for your perusing.
Here you can chronologically see why we keep saying it was a wacky 2011.
For example:
- There were 75 reported tornadoes in the Tulsa forecast area, which includes eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. That breaks the previous record of 53 set in 1999 and 2008. The average in our corner of the state is 20 a year.
- All time record minimum temperature recorded in Oklahoma was -31 degrees in Nowata.
- Fort Smith had 27 days that were at or above 100 degrees, breaking the previous record of 17 set in 1934.
Also, for those of you who enjoy charts and graphs (who doesn’t love charts and graphs?!?!), the site also has a nice collection of last year’s temperature and rainfall as it compares to normal levels. It’s pretty exciting, if I can say so myself.
It's interesting to see the difference in rainfall just across the Tulsa forecast area. Tulsa International, Tulsa Riverside, Bartlesville, Muskogee were all well below yearly average rainfall totals. But look at Fayetteville.
They typically get more rain than us, but the difference is quite striking. Fayetteville ended the year with 56.15 inches of rain in 2011. Tulsa International recorded just under 32 inches for the year.
It’s the fourth day of 2012, and we haven’t had any records in the area, but it has been unseasonably warm. Before you get complacent, remember that it was about the same this time last January, before we got two feet of snow.
--Jerry Wofford
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