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How do Tulsa's June temperatures compare with last June?
Published: 6/18/2012 10:59 AM
Last Modified: 6/18/2012 11:02 AM

Mary Jane Pankey (at right), 3, and Ameerah Kitchel, 5, play in the water at Springdale Park, on June 4 - one of the hottest days so far in June! CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World File

This blog was inspired by some of our early morning commenters on the weather forecast story.

Yes, as one of you pointed out, Summer Solstice, June 20, is almost upon us. Regardless of how you classify summer, whether it be when school is out, or in meteorological terms:

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

(to keep things even, notice that the four seasons are divided into three months each!)

Regardless, you can expect some warmer weather soon.

But, as we have fun with discussing these higher temperatures, let me humbly remind you what Tulsa was experiencing last June. Information, as always, is from the National Weather Service:

12 hottest days of June 2011 (in degrees Fahrenheit):
106: June 27
102: June 30
99: June 24, 25 and 26
98: June 13 and 19
97: June 3, 5, 17. 18 and 29

Now, let us compare that to 2012:

12 hottest days of June 2012 (as of June 17, in degrees Fahrenheit):
94: June 17
93: June 14
92: June 3 and 10
91: June 9 and 16
90: June 4
89: June 5 and 12
87: June 2, 13, and 15

Granted, we still have almost two weeks of June left to match ourselves with last year. However, there's one reason that Tulsa is probably not going to get 100s in June this year:

June 2012 rain (as of June 17: 3.89 inches
June 2011 rain: 1.47 inches

This big difference in rain (that Tulsa still has almost two weeks to add to still this year) is probably why the average temperature in June 2011 was 84.4 degrees, while this year's June is only 77 degrees.

So, just to keep things in perspective. It is getting hot in Tulsa, yes, but not as hot as it was last year.

--Althea Peterson

PS: Thank you commenters for inspiring this blog entry :)

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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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