Oklahoma record-low temperature set today

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: The Oklahoman

The coldest temperature ever recorded in Oklahoma was set today.

The Oklahoma Mesonet weather station at Nowata reached minus 31 degrees 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.




Read more: http://newsok.com/record-low-temperature-in-oklahoma-set-today/article/3539681

[emilyg]

1. We had snow in Ga, last

night.

[alp227]

2. In other news, Sally Kern will go to the Legislature floor and say: "Where's the global warming?"

I wonder how many people in Oklahoma (the state with the anti-sharia and proposed abortion ultrasound laws) will think that way.

[DURHAM D]

3. Sally will blame THE GAYS !

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

12. Inhofe's Book "Hoax"

Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe promotes global warming skepticism and his book at House hearing
Republicans aiming to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases.

BY CHRIS CASTEEL [e-mail]
Published: February 10, 2011

For more than 10 years, Sen. Jim Inhofe has figuratively written the book on skepticism about human-induced global warming. Now, he's actually finished a book, to be called “Hoax,” a reference to his famous — or infamous, depending on the viewpoint — description of global warming.

“You'll be the first to receive an autographed copy,” Inhofe, R-Tulsa, told California Rep. Henry Waxman on Wednesday at a House subcommittee hearing about whether the Environmental Protection Agency should be able to regulate greenhouse gases.

Inhofe — who doesn't have a publisher or a target release date for his book — was the leading witness at the Energy and Power subcommittee hearing, which, at least for the first couple of hours, was little more than a forum for Republicans and Democrats to air well-established positions on the EPA's role and the larger issue of global warming.
Inhofe told Waxman that he still believes human-induced global warming is a hoax. And he told the subcommittee that, even if it weren't, regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would have almost no effect on global temperatures but cost the U.S. economy between $300 billion and $400 billion a year.

Read more: http://newsok.com/oklahoma-u.s.-sen.-jim-inhofe-promotes-global-warming-skepticism-and-his-book-at-house-hearing/article/3539479#ixzz1Db0x6sqZ

I'm sure that the Koch family or BP would be more than happy to publish it.

[Adsos Letter]

4. Any idea what it was with wind chill factored in?

:scared:

[Tess49]

9. Actual temperature, without wind chill factored in.

[guitar man]

13. not sure but

for some reason, my brass monkey has been really listless today, he just seems downright depressed for some reason.

:spray:

[Blue Owl]

5. Hey, I have an idea...

Wouldn't this be a great time to slash LIHEAP?

[TygrBright]

8. Dang, you beat me to it! I was JUST gonna suggest that! n/t

[damntexdem]

6. Nowata is far north -- well, for Oklahoma, up near Bartlesville.

Must be above Oklahoma's Arctic Circle. ;-)

Although judging from what it's politicians have been doing and saying in recent years, OK had already become a really cold place.

[Burma Jones]

7. I read that next week will see temps in the 70s...a 100 degree swing

100 degrees!!

[maxsolomon]

10. WTFU, Inhofe!

If that's even possible.

[madokie]

11. minus 11.6 on my thermometer this morning

35 miles east of Tulsa OK

[NutmegYankee]

14. You beat me in Connecticut by 1 degree!

The lowest I had this winter was -10.

[madokie]

15. I heard on the news this morning that somewhere here in OK it was -34

too shitt'n ass cold for me I know that. I didn't catch the name of the town or if I did I forgot :-) between then and now. You know how that old age is forgetful time and all. at least I still remember which shoe goes on which hand

[NutmegYankee]

16. This has been a nasty winter.

Here's hoping it isn't a record breaking summer as well.

[madokie]

21. I hadn't even thought about that

I'm just hoping it is an early spring. The weatherman says by the middle of next week we'll be in the sixties here. That I can handle

[lunatica]

17. The Bay area is in the mid 60s

Students are wearing shorts and sunbathing on the grassy areas of the UC Berkeley campus. Really.

Blossoming trees are in full blossom right now. It got up into the 80s earlier this week. Very strange.

I'm sorry so many states are having such a bad time with the snow and temperature.

[texanwitch]

18. It was cold yesterday in Houston.

With the wind chill it was between 8 and 18, felt like it.

I did't waste anytime outside yesterday getting things done.

Even the weeds took a hit, nothing seems to hurt the weeds.

This was a winter.

The water in the outside animals bowls were freezing over when I went out at 6 pm.

It is a nice toasty 39 now, feels almost warm.

Still plenty of February left and March.

[defendandprotect]

19. K/R -- How can you possibly survive that?

[daleo]

20. It was unseasonably warm in western Canada today

Just for the record.

[delightfulstar]

22. My MIL is up in Wichita...

And said it got to -17° the other night, which was the coldest temp there in nearly 30 years. Needless to say, her recent trip to see us (combined with that bone-chilling cold) has cemented her decision to move here to AZ.