By WEATHER WORLD on May 15, 2012, at 4:43 PM Updated on 5/15 at 4:43 PM
WEATHER WORLD
At the cookout I went to Sunday evening, it was tank top, cutoff jean shorts and flip flops. My friend said to me, “you look ...
This blog was inspired by some of our early morning commenters on the weather forecast story .
Yes, as one of you pointed ...
The deluge earlier this month was exciting. For a second, I though that maybe the near-record parched May was just a fluke ...
I dug deep into the photo archives for this one: Tulsa traffic makes its way north on Yale Avenue as the Expo Square sign displays Tulsa's continuing hot weather. The date? June 30, 1998. Tulsa World File
It has been more than 8 months.
Sept. 13, 2011 was the last time Tulsa had triple-digit heat, with a 101-degree high.
It would probably be easier for me to say how often Tulsa didn't have a 100-degree day last summer. Retroactive history might make you think the 100s in Tulsa started back in April, maybe March last year. However, it wasn't even May, despite our hot summer's record setting temps.
It was June 27 of last year when Tulsa finally had a triple-digit day, with a high of 106 degrees.
But, there's a precedent for Tulsa to have hotter temperatures even before our first official summer month. Tulsa has recorded 100s in both April and May... but only once each. They are:
April 12, 1972: 102 degrees
May 31, 1934: 100 degrees
After that, however, it is once again easier to say when we didn't have 100s than when we did for Tulsa's daily records. Those days are:
June 1, 1934: 98 degrees
June 12, 1953: 99 degrees
Every day's record highest mark for July and August is in the 100s. You have to go till mid-September before you see a daily record high in the 90s again.
Stay tuned, Tulsa. 100s are not here yet, but they're likely less than a month away.
-- Althea Peterson
PS: This is my first week back from maternity leave. My daughter is now two months old! I do not know what she thinks of Oklahoma weather yet, but she does love being outdoors. Too bad my pediatrician says she's still too young for sunscreen.
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