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Let's Ask America: Meteorologist edition (Tulsa included)
Published: 2/1/2013 9:33 AM
Last Modified: 2/1/2013 9:36 AM

"Let's Ask America" airs 2:30 p.m. weekdays on KJRH, Channel 2. One of their meteorologists, George Flickinger, participated in Thursday's broadcast with three other meteorologists.

On Thursday's broadcast of gameshow "Let's Ask America," Tulsa meteorologist George Flickinger of KJRH, Channel 2, earned $1,000 for the Humane Society of Tulsa.

Flickenger, along with two other meteorologists, earned $1,000 for their charities, but the big prize, $47,000, went to the Phoenix (Ariz.) Children's Hospital, thanks to Phoenix's ABC15 chief meteorologist Amber Sullins.

How did the meteorologists earn money for charity? Here are the questions (choose America's most popular answer), followed by the answers:

1. Hurricanes or politicians: Which did people in Florida say is more likely to make a mess of their state?

2. Boyfriend or dog: Who did female dog owners say they keep on a shorter leash?

3. Black or white: Which automobile color did car enthusiasts say is the hardest to keep clean?

4. Watered down mai tais, canceled hula lessons or sand in shorts: What did travel buffs say is more likely to cause a tropical depression?

5. Price, convenience or toy: What did parents say is the best part about a fast food kids meal?

6. Snow, fog or freezing rain: What did commuters say is the most difficult type of weather to drive in?

7. Seattle, Boston, Chicago or Houston: Residents of San Diego said which of these cities has the worst weather?

8. The Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher In the Rye: Which literary classic did high school students say they'd most like to see banned?

9. And now, the $47,000 question: Unbiased reporters, attractive anchors, sense of humor or facts: What did TV viewers say television news programs could use more of?

BONUS: On Tuesday's Final Jeopardy round, Tulsa's own Joshua Brakhage had to answer the following question to win the game (for the fifth time!):

"In the 1940s an anemometer aided Antarctic experiments that first determined this measurement heard in weather reports."

ANSWERS:

1. 74 percent said politicians
2. 58 percent said dog
3. 51 percent said white
4. 58 percent said watered down mai tais
5. 40 percent said convenience
6. 55 percent said freezing rain
7. 38 percent said Chicago
8. 29 percent said Huckleberry Finn
9. 44 percent said unbiased reporters

BONUS: Brakhage was the only one to answer correctly, "What is wind chill?" and won $33,594.

Please join us again this weekend for a Super Bowl forecast, and on Monday as Jerry takes on his annual weather nemesis, Groundhog's Day!

--Althea Peterson

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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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