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Was Thursday the start of new heat or rain streaks?
Published: 8/19/2011 7:00 AM
Last Modified: 8/18/2011 5:53 PM

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For the first time since Aug. 8, we hit the 100s on Thursday. But, we also recorded some rainfall.

The National Weather Service does not keep records of rain streaks, according to Tulsa meteorologist Joe Sellers. Any little amount of rainfall is just too arbitrary to track, he said.

However, for a milestone like 100, there's tons of statistics. Here goes:

1: The current streak of 100-degree days, starting Thursday!
14: The longest streak of 100-degree days we've had so far this year, from July 26 to Aug. 8.
14.7: The average number of days each year Tulsa reaches the 100s.
22: The longest streak of 100-degree days in Tulsa history, back in August 1936.
37: Including Thursday, the number of 100-degree days Tulsa has had so far this year.
65: The most number of 100-degree days Tulsa has had in a single year, 1936.

All of that rain since our last 100-degree day, Aug. 8, has likely ensured that we're not reaching the 65-day record or the 22-day streak we had in 1936. But, from a personal standpoint, we need the rain more than we need the weather records at this point. Let's look at August rain, shall we?

0: The least amount of rain ever recorded in a Tulsa August, back in 1896 (records date back to August 1888).
3.44: The most rainfall recorded in a day this month in Tulsa, back on Aug. 10.
5.37: The most rainfall recorded in a single August day in Tulsa, back on Aug. 20, 1989.
5.68: As of Wednesday, August's rainfall in Tulsa.
11.8: The most rainfall recorded in a Tulsa August, in 1927.

Whether Thursday started a 100s streak for Tulsa, pushed us even further above par for rainfall, or was just a atypical day, at least it wasn't 113 degrees like earlier this month (Aug. 3).

--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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