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Who got the most snow in Oklahoma?
Published: 2/13/2012 2:45 PM
Last Modified: 2/13/2012 2:45 PM

This map provided by the National Weather Service shows that most of the major snowfall was in the western part of the state. However, please keep in mind that these early figures are subject to change. Courtesy

Tulsa just had its coldest and snowiest days so far this winter.

First, let's start with the snow. Since there's so few snow days thus far in Tulsa, let's look back at them all:

Feb. 13 (as of 2 p.m.): 1.2 inches
Jan. 11: 0.5 of an inch
Dec. 22: Trace amounts

If you are just tuning in to Tulsa World weather reports, "trace amounts" means any amount that is less than 0.01 of an inch. In other words, a recorded amount that is too tiny to measure.

There were other days in December with trace amounts of freezing precipitation, but if memory serves correctly, it was not snow, but other forms of freezing precipitation.

And now, for the coldest day of Tulsa's winter, thus far. Last week, I mentioned the 10 coldest days since November.

Our new coldest day: 16 degrees on Sunday, Feb. 12. We also tied the previous coldest day (Jan. 18) on Saturday, which was 17 degrees. Here are Tulsa's coldest days of the past four months:

February (as of today): 16 degrees on Feb. 12
January: 17 degrees on Jan. 18
December: 18 degrees on Dec. 7
November: 23 degrees on Nov. 28

I don't expect Tulsa to be much colder or snowier today, as the temperatures appear to be rising (50s and 60s forecast in the coming days).

As mentioned in today's forecast article (read it here), Osage County had the most snow of northeast Oklahoma, with 3 inches, according to the weather service. However, the rest of the state had even more. Here are the top ones, according to the Oklahoma Mesonet (in inches):

Sayre: 5.2
Hobart: 5.0
Braman: 4.9
Orienta: 4.8
Vinson: 4.5
Headrick: 4.3

Rather than force you to try to find these smaller Oklahoma communities on a map, in a nutshell, they are located in both central-western Oklahoma and northwestern Oklahoma (not the Panhandle).

--Althea Peterson

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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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