By JERRY WOFFORD Staff Writer on Mar 15, 2013, at 6:08 PM Updated on 3/15 at 6:08 PM
WEATHER WORLD
We’re used to high winds down here in the southern Great Plains. Yeah, it can be annoying when it gets above 30 mph and blows ...
Five years ago today, insult was added to the grave injuries already inflicted upon Picher, Okla.
An EF-4 tornado slammed ...
It’s apparently Tornado Week at the Weather Channel. The only reason I know that is because there are a handful of Weather ...
I can just imagine the meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Tulsa and at the television stations sitting around a screen and watching the high temperature creep up today.
It was a cursory glance most of the morning and early afternoon. When we got to 80, they started to pay more attention. At 83 degrees they pulled up their rolling office chairs to watch.
They all leaned in to the screen about 3:45 p.m. when we reached 84, tying the current record high for March 15 that was set back in 1921 and 1914.
Papers were thrown in the air. There was screaming and shouting. Church bells rang. White smoke billowed out of the chimney. Wait, that's something else.
OK...maybe that’s just what I did today.
It's the warmest temperatures we've had since November, and a sure sign that spring is nigh.
Temps today were 20 to 25 above normal for this time of March. Yesterday was great, today was beautiful. And tomorrow, it's downhill.
A cold front comes through tomorrow evening and temps will drop to near normals with a chance of rain most of the time.
But normal temps are still in the 60s, so not bad.
Happy springtime, y'all.
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