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Weather World turns 1; our clip episode
Published: 6/13/2012 1:59 PM
Last Modified: 6/13/2012 2:00 PM

Has it been a year already? We started this blog on June 9, 2011, right as Oklahoma was beginning its summer drought woes, right after a fairly active spring and a winter with tons of snow days (for students, not for reporters). Together, we and you, our wonderful readers, shared experiences like dry, miserably hot summers, tornadoes, warm winters and sunny days.

In honor of our one-year anniversary, here are a few of our favorite entries:

June 16, 2011: "Dogs can forecast the weather. Seriously! I asked a vet"

Simon is Althea's "weather dog." Shortly before thunderstorms hit Tulsa, he will walk around the house, panting loudly. I think it was about a month after this entry ran that we discovered that Simon also didn't like earthquakes.

July 22, 2011: "The radar image might be deceiving you"

This was a favorite because it was educational. TV weather forecasts usually don't show anything for areas without rain, but as the tulsaworld.com/weather radar shows, there's more to radar images than just storms.

Aug. 3, 2011: "August records are falling like the rain we need"

This blog shows the desperation of last summer and how delirious the heat and drought made us.

September 1, 2011: "Tulsa hurricane: Just a college mascot, or actual weather event?"

Combining sports and weather makes both more fun, which made this entry especially fun. The blog followed up later in September with three entries on college football games having issues with lightning, complete with photos.

Dec. 2, 2011: "Bedlam football chance of rain? 100 percent!"

This was one of the most viewed entries of the weather blog in our inaugural year. It will be good to get back to football season. Expect more forecasts for both away and home games!

Feb. 2, 2012: “More like Punxsu-PHONY Phil, amirite?!”

In this blog, Jerry rants about groundhogs and their inability to predict weather. Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter, and we had the warmest March ever. Good one, Phil.

Feb. 29, 2012: "Leap Day Tornado Outbreak 2012 is rare and deadly"

This was one of the more popular blogs. There were about 45 tornadoes across the southeast on the extra day we had this year.

March 9, 2012: "Photos of the northern lights. Amazing!"

Of all the weather photo blog entries, this was one of Althea's favorite, possibly because it was right before she left on two months of maternity leave.

May 21, 2012: “Did you experience the eclipse? Here are some photos”

Jerry got to see part of the first eclipse to cross North America since 1994, which made him a kid again. Here are a bunch of pictures, including some he took.

June 12, 2012: "Weather suggests Oklahoma City Thunder and Miami Heat nicknames should be reversed"

Is it cheating to including yesterday's entry in this list? If not, this was a fun entry because we're usually asking government agency weather personnel about forecasts, not basketball. So, they probably had fun with this topic, too.

--Althea Peterson and Jerry Wofford

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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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