From: NewsOK.com
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Oklahoma was set today.
The Oklahoma Mesonet weather station at Nowata reached minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit actual temperature at 7:40 a.m. today. That will be considered for the official state record.
That mark eclipses the previous all-time record low state temperature of minus 27 degrees, set at at Vinita, Feb. 13, 1905, and Watts, Jan. 18, 1930.
Also, the Mesonet station at Medford recorded a wind chill of minus 47 degrees at 7:45 a.m. setting a Mesonet record.
The Oklahoma Mesonet, which began in 1994, has 120 stations throughout Oklahoma.
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Hey Watts, you just went down! 🙂
Where is the -31F:
“That’s me in the corner. That’s me in the spotlight. I’m Losing my global warming religion…
Coming this fall to The History Channel…
Ice Road Truckers: Oklahoma.
Robb876 says:
February 10, 2011 at 12:26 pm
But the temp record is unreliable… Remember??
I think most of the criticisms were that the readings were generally too high – which makes the current lows even lower, in all likelihood.
In Oklahoma, the freeze sooner!
One of the benefits of very cold air temps like that is you can chill down a six pack in just a couple of minutes or make a tray of ice for Margeritas really fast.
When Mother Nature freezes your butt off . . . time to bust out the tequila and salt.
>> George E. Smith says:
February 10, 2011 at 11:34 am
Since the extreme range of temperatures on earth, not counting volcanoes, is about +/- 90 deg C, what is so special about zero to 100 deg F <<
I agree with slp. Fahrenheit is much friendlier for weather.
It's true that the full range of planetary temperatures is about 100 C (or K) degrees, but most people don't experience Antarctic temperatures, except on rare occasions such as this. Typically the temperature range in most major cities goes from 0F (or warmer) to 100F, with anything outside that range extreme enough to warrant staying indoors. It doesn't matter whether it's -1F or -20F, in either case it's just too **** cold.
There are a few desert cities where temperatures regularly exceed 100F, but even there the range between 50-100C is not needed. Half the positive two-digit values are wasted in weathercasting in Celsius.
Matt says:
February 10, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Dr. Dave.
Amarillo is WEST of Oklahoma City.
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Yes…I feel like an idiot for not proof reading my post. I wanted to say that OK City is only a few hundred mile east of Amarillo. In my defense I was sitting at home and the plumber just showed up to install a new water heater. I was distracted. Sorry…but I NEED a good long hot shower and a nice, hot, wet shave to feel human again.
wws says:
February 10, 2011 at 1:52 pm
re: Magnus – don’t count on the crutch of a /sarc tag (lame) to know when someone’s pulling your leg!
and to Magnus – well played, sir! LOL!
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Had no idea it could be taken seriously, LOL. I guess it is an honest mistake since people probably often just skims through the comments and answer when annoyed by stupidity.
“So the flooding went ahead. The ship was 55000 tons, and the volume of the dock was perhaps 100,000 tons. So all this warm -4C water surged in (it’s quite exciting witnessing a large drydock flooding) the -35C dock, and suddenly with a loud bang, the ship split in two. … You must be careful of cold in more ways than one.” – Peter Melia
“A 400 foot long ship will change 15 inches in length from a 50f temperature difference. If the outside hull was suddenly cooled by 50F internal bulkheads would break.” – S.R.
“That’s me in the corner. That’s me in the spotlight. I’m Losing my
global warmingreligion…”Apparently the crabs in Antarctica have found religion!
http://news.discovery.com/animals/king-crabs-antarctic-waters-110208.html
Regarding Farenheit : Oklahoma is part of the US and we use degrees F here . Just remember – “When in Rome , do as the Romanians .” ( Capt. Paul Washburn ) .
Hey, democrat d-bags!
MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX!
As the heat leaves the oceans, and the Sun is QUIET, these will be remembered as the good old “Global Warming Days”.
The best beer/tequila chilling days are yet to come!
Check out -> http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif
watch the heat leave the oceans.
New, very important temperatures:
Fahrenheit = -37.89º
Celsius = -38.83º
Kelvin = 234.32
The limiting point for “Global Warming”; the freezing point of Mercury…
It’s cute how Europeans cling to the the Centigrade scale and think it’s more “scientific”. The fall of Great Britain came after they adopted the metric system, then let in the EU. 😉
Buncha’ wusses up there in Oklahoma. If it ever got that cold here in Houston, we’d be out in our shorts and t-shirts.
But seriously, we spent a week that cold up in North Dakota back in the 70’s. Nothing you can’t handle with arctic gear. I do recall that the fluorescent lights in my garage wouldn’t work.
I’d bet nobody up there has an engine block heater on his car. You can always put a work light with a 100 watt bulb under the hood to keep things a bit warmer. At least until they do away with tungsten bulbs.
Curiously, the Nowata station is NOT in the USHCN data base. Maybe it’s too far away from parking lots, large buildings, freshly plowed fields and tarmac to qualify.
Last Sunday I rode my motorcycle in jeans and a T-Shirt.
I’m in the California high desert.
Oh yes… /smug
kwik says:
February 10, 2011 at 11:29 am
-35 C ? That’s nothing here in Norway.
You *DO* realize that Oklahoma is on the same latitude as Northern Africa, right? This makes my four degrees Fahrenheit this morning feel toasty. I’ve seen -40F a couple of times in New Mexico, in the 70s and again in the 80s. Wasn’t bad once the sun comes out.
I was amazed that my old truck started this morning. My wx station reported -5 at 5:00 and -6 at 06:00….it was freakishly cold here in OKC. But it’s just weather, forecast if for 70 by Tuesday.
It’s a very confusing state.
Down under (Australia) we went metric about 40 years ago. Locally (Adelaide Hills) we get temperatures between -7C and 40C. You soon work out which is which.
The “ball” for switching to metric was started in the USA, who said that the country would go metric SOON. Obviously you decided to wait for AGW to happen first.
Curiously, our Bureau of Meteorology (a hotbed of warmists if I may use that term) has announced that 2010 was the COOLEST year of the warmest decade (rats exit left?).
By the way, minus 40 is the same in Fahrenheit or Celsius.
Here’s a neat story about us Okies…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_winter_weather
Much like my neighborhood where all pull together, always.
wsbriggs says:
February 10, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Gee Robb876,
You clearly haven’t looked at the UHI weather stations and their siting. This site appears to make a 2 or even a 1 catagory, unlike the majority of the others.
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Well, the photo of this one has to be fake… And that temp reading is just part of a big conspiracy aimed at making plants grow… (co2 is good for plants ya know….) hehe
I’m a global cooling denier… Get it??
Zip!! Zow
Briggs says:
February 10, 2011 at 11:27 am
Everyone knows that warmer air can hold more cold air
LOL! 🙂
Robert says:
February 10, 2011 at 11:53 am
All time record low in a state breaking a record from 106 years ago.
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That would be just at the end of the Little Ice Age.
oldgamer56 says:
February 10, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Clearly this can’t be an official site. Where is the asphalt and concrete, the burn barrels, the exhaust fans from the ac/heating units, the local jet engine rebuilding facility? Just unacceptable, what are they trying to do, undermine CAGW?
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LOL! Very good!