Jeff Snyder
EF5
Oklahoma City's temperature hit 112 F today, marking the second hottest temperature ever recorded in Oklahoma City and the warmest since August 1936. The alltime record continues to stand at 113 set during the Dust Bowl days of August 11th, 1936. The drought continues to intensify across much of the country (the coverage is, depending upon the metric chosen, one the largest in the past 100+ years), and, as typically comes with severe drought, the furnace-like conditions continue across the area. According to the latest Oklahoma Mesonet Ticker, July 2012 marked the 23rd above-average month out of the past 28 in Oklahoma. The soil temperature at 2 inches below bare soil today reached nearly 130 degrees in central and southwestern Oklahoma (I saw 129 F at Norman, but I didn't pay attention to all of the 5-minute obs so I may have missed a 130 F). I'm interested to know if anyone has taken an infrared thermometer to some black asphalt in Oklahoma during the past couple of days...
Tulsa went for the trifecta yesterday, tying the all-time record high minimum (88) and setting a new daily record high maximum (112) and all-time record warm average temperature (100) all in the same day. The statewide temperature thus far today has been 115 in Kingfisher, though many locations throughout the state experienced temperatures above 110 F.
Do you have stories about this current heat wave? Denver just recorded their all-time record warmest month as July 2012 came to a close ( http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KBOU/1207312157.nous45.html ). This summer's heat follows on the heals of the record-breaking winter and spring that parts of the U.S. experienced (including the ridiculously warm March in Minnesota and surrounding areas).
If you want to get away from the heat, head to southern Alaska! The position of the jet stream that has contributed to the extreme heat in much of the CONUS has resulted in some cold weather in southern Alaska. The July temperature anomaly map from NCDC isn't out yet, but here's the June map:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/map-blended-mntp/201206.gif
Tulsa went for the trifecta yesterday, tying the all-time record high minimum (88) and setting a new daily record high maximum (112) and all-time record warm average temperature (100) all in the same day. The statewide temperature thus far today has been 115 in Kingfisher, though many locations throughout the state experienced temperatures above 110 F.
Do you have stories about this current heat wave? Denver just recorded their all-time record warmest month as July 2012 came to a close ( http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KBOU/1207312157.nous45.html ). This summer's heat follows on the heals of the record-breaking winter and spring that parts of the U.S. experienced (including the ridiculously warm March in Minnesota and surrounding areas).
If you want to get away from the heat, head to southern Alaska! The position of the jet stream that has contributed to the extreme heat in much of the CONUS has resulted in some cold weather in southern Alaska. The July temperature anomaly map from NCDC isn't out yet, but here's the June map:
![201206.gif](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncdc.noaa.gov%2Fsotc%2Fservice%2Fglobal%2Fmap-blended-mntp%2F201206.gif&hash=5f65df39025e0dceed92f0905bd733cd)
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/map-blended-mntp/201206.gif
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