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Nearly 20 inches of snow have fallen this season in...Midland, Texas?

By WEATHER WORLD on Jan 10, 2012, at 2:41 PM  Updated on 1/10 at 2:43 PM



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...and the livin's easy

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 ...

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Odessa High School seniors Faryal Dare, left, and Jacob Jordan walk to their classes as snow falls, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, at Odessa High School in Odessa, Texas. (AP Photo/Odessa American, Albert Cesare)


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Lauren Underwood, of Meeker, Okla., rides her horse in the snow before competing in the barrel racing slack Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 at the SandHills Stock Show and Rodeo at the Ector County Coliseum in Odessa, Texas. The National Weather Service forecast accumulations of 4-8 inches of snow through Monday evening. (AP Photo/The Odessa American, Mark Sterkel)


While we haven’t had more than a trace of snow in Tulsa this year, more unlikely places have.

Midland/Odessa, Texas, area had nearly 11 inches of snow. Nadine, N.M., had 15 inches. Hobbs, N.M., had 11.

The Midland Reporter-Telegram is reporting the 10.6 inches of snow is an all-time record for the city. It adds to the 19.3 inches the city has received so far this year and breaks the previous seasonal record of 13.9 inches in 1946-47, the paper reports. Three big snow events have added to the total, which amounts to more snow than some places known for harsh winters. For example, Minneapolis, Minn., has only had 7.3 inches since Dec. 1. Last year, they had 35.5 inches by now.

The storm system that brought the snow to west Texas is what is bringing us our rain today. (Well…maybe not our rain here. Most of it will stay to the south, where the northern part of the low is kind of spinning in place, dumping rain on the eastern part of the state right now. NWS forecast here says 20 percent, but any rain we get will probably be light.)

The storm system also brought tornadic storms to the eastern part of Texas. At least one tornado touched down Tuesday in the Houston area and more severe weather is expected across the Gulf of Mexico today.

Once that starts to move out of the way, another light disturbance will come through Wednesday, bringing us a slight chance of snow Wednesday night.

Any snow won’t be much though, continuing our snowless winter. I should really quit mentioning our lack of snow, because it will surely jinx it and open the heavens, pouring out mounds and mounds of snow.

But just for funzies, lets look at some more past snow data for Tulsa.

  • The snowiest season? Duh. 2010-2011. 26.1 inches. Ugh.


  • Since records began here, there have only been three winter seasons that had a trace or less: 1910-11, 1900-01 and 1903-04.


  • In 1932, there wasn’t any measurable snow that season until March, and even that was only 0.3 inches.


  • The earliest snowfall was 0.3 inches in October of 1993. That season had 14.4 inches total. The latest snowfall was in April of 1957 with 1.7 inches.


So if you are looking forward to snow, just hold on a bit. It’ll surely happen.

--Jerry Wofford
WEATHER WORLD

...and the livin's easy

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 ...

How do Tulsa's June temperatures compare with last June?

This blog was inspired by some of our early morning commenters on the weather forecast story .

Yes, as one of you pointed ...

Rains improve drought conditions, but we're still on the edge

The deluge earlier this month was exciting. For a second, I though that maybe the near-record parched May was just a fluke ...

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