After the start of weather record keeping by Fort Gibson, other forts soon began keeping their own records. The earliest records were kept not by any type of weather organization, but by the U.S. True rainfall records did not begin until July 1836. The records included data on temperatures and rainy days, but not on precipitation amounts. The oldest known weather records in Oklahoma began at Fort Gibson in January 1824, in what is now Muskogee County. With a gusty north wind, the wind chill dropped to minus 17.

The temperature bottomed out at minus 6 degrees Fahrenheit. The coldest Oklahoma temperature of 2019 occurred on this day in the Oklahoma Panhandle near Guymon. Over central Oklahoma, down into western north Texas, a glaze of ice was seen, with several accidents reported in the Oklahoma City area. The hardest hit areas extended from near Durant and Ada, northeast toward Tulsa. On the 1st and 2nd, a strong storm system dumped up to 6 inches of snow over a large part of southern, through northeast Oklahoma. In 1996, the new year was brought in on a snowy note. This high temperature broke a 17-year record by 1 degree for the warmest temperature for that date. January 2, 2004, was a warm day across western north Texas as the mercury soared to 80 degrees at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls. Two passenger jets slid off icy runways at Will Rogers World Airport. The ice also caused havoc with area airport operations. The icy weather caused numerous traffic accidents, including a 35-car pile-up in Oklahoma City shortly after midnight. On January 1st and 2nd of 1993, an intense storm system brought accumulations of sleet and freezing rain to much of the region. One year earlier, the temperature only fell to 56 degrees, which set a record for the warmest low. On January 1, 2006, a record high of 77 degrees occurred. Several streams across southern Oklahoma, such as Buffalo and Antelope Springs, were completely dry to start the year.īoth New Year's Day 20 set warm temperature records in Oklahoma City. Impacts of the drought included wildfires and extremely low creek levels. The beginning of 2009 brought no signs of relief as Oklahoma continued to be in a moderate drought from 2008.

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