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Tulsa's weather records of 2012
Published: 1/28/2013 3:00 PM
Last Modified: 1/28/2013 2:34 PM

A Tulsa-is-hot photo would work better here, but since I posted those repeatedly last year, here's something different: Lighting in the sky with the Riverbend Gardens construction project in the foreground on July 19, 2012. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World File

This morning, my editor asked me about the potential of Tulsa beating a weather record today or Tuesday.

But, before looking at records for 2013, perhaps we should look back at the...

Tulsa weather records of 2012

Warmest year on record

That's our only major new record, as we beat previous record-holder 1921 (63.7 degrees on average) by a whole degree (64.7).

Of note on the rest:

We had three rainfall records, all of which were having the most rainfall on a day, none for dry months/seasons.

We had eight records for low temperatures (i.e. lowest temperature on a calendar date)

We had 54 records for high temperatures (i.e. highest mean temperature on a calendar date)

Here they are, just in case it ever comes up again. More are calendar date records, meaning that they are a record specific to that calendar date (example - the highest mean temperature ever recorded on Jan. 31):

January:
Jan. 31, 2012: 59 degrees, highest mean temperature

February:
Feb. 3, 2012: 0.84, most rainfall

March:
March 14, 2012: 63 degrees, highest minimum temperature; 69 degrees, highest mean temperature (tie)
March 15, 2012: 65 degrees, highest minimum temperature; 73 degrees, highest mean temperature
March 16, 2012: 65 degrees, highest minimum temperature; 72 degrees, highest mean temperature
March 17, 2012: 68 degrees, highest minimum temperature
March 18, 2012: 67 degrees, highest minimum temperature
March 19, 2012: 2.81 inches, most rainfall
March 30, 2012: 73 degrees, highest mean temperature (tie)

April:
April 25, 2012: 78 degrees, highest mean temperature

May:
May 2, 2012: 71 degrees, highest minimum temperature
May 3, 2012: 70 degrees, highest minimum temperature; 80 degrees, highest mean temperature
May 4, 2012: 75 degrees, highest minimum temperature; 82 degrees, highest mean temperature
May 26, 2012: 76 degrees, highest minimum temperature; 84 degrees, highest mean temperature
May 28, 2012: 94 degrees, highest temperature (tie); 84 degrees, highest mean temperature (tie)

June:
June 1, 2012: 69 degrees, lowest high temperature; 50 degrees; lowest temperature; 60 degrees, lowest mean temperature
June 4, 2012: 3.32 inches, most rainfall
June 25, 2012: 105 degrees, highest temperature (tie)
June 26, 2012: 90 degrees, highest mean temperature (tie)
June 27, 2012: 80 degrees, highest low temperature (tie)
June 29, 2012: 80 degrees, highest low temperature (tie); 91 degrees, highest mean temperature (tie)

July:
Overall:

Highest low temperature (July 31)

Highest mean temperature (July 31)

July 29, 2012: 86 degrees, highest low temperature; 97 degrees, highest mean temperature
July 30, 2012: 88 degrees, highest low temperature; 99 degrees, highest mean temperature
July 31, 2012: 112 degrees, highest temperature; 88 degrees, highest low temperature; 100 degrees, highest mean temperature

August:
Aug. 1, 2012: 112 degrees, highest temperature; 98 degrees, highest mean temperature
Aug. 2, 2012: 112 degrees, highest temperature (tie)
Aug. 4, 2012: 94 degrees, highest mean temperature (tie)
Aug. 11, 2012: 58 degrees, lowest temperature

September:
Sept. 4, 2012: 81 degrees, highest low temperature; 93 degrees, highest mean temperature (tie)
Sept. 26, 2012: 76 degrees, highest low temperature; 86 degrees, highest mean temperature (tie)

October:
Oct. 6, 2012: 50 degrees, lowest high temperature; 45 degrees, lowest mean temperature
Oct. 7, 2012: 32 degrees, lowest temperature; 44 degrees, lowest mean temperature
Oct. 21, 2012: 66 degrees, highest low temperature (tie); 76 degrees, highest mean temperature (tie)
Oct. 22, 2012: 71 degrees, highest low temperature; 76 degrees, highest mean temperature
Oct. 23, 2012: 70 degrees, highest low temperature (tie)

November:
Nov. 10, 2012: 64 degrees, highest low temperature

December:
Dec. 1, 2012: 77 degrees, highest temperature (tie); 59 degrees, highest low temperature (tie); 68 degrees, highest mean temperature (tie)
Dec. 2, 2012: 76 degrees, highest temperature (tie)
Dec. 3, 2012: 67 degrees, highest mean temperature (tie)
Dec. 19, 2012: 70 degrees, highest temperature (tie)

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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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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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