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Related: About this forum121° in Freedom, Oklahoma
Wednesday was the hottest day in Oklahoma since August 1936, said wunderground's weather historian, Christopher C. Burt, with more than half of the state recording temperatures of 110° or higher. The hot spot Wednesday: 121° in Freedom, in the northwest part of the state. If verified, this temperature would beat Oklahoma's all-time state temperature record of 120°, set in Tipton on June 27, 1994, and at three locations in 1936. The official temperature at the Oklahoma City airport hit 112° Wednesday, tied for the city's 2nd highest temperature since record keeping began in 1890. The only hotter day was August 11, 1936, when the temperature hit 113°. Other hot spots in Oklahoma yesterday:
118° at station W1DY (just north of Oklahoma City's Wiley Post Airport)
116° at Claremore
115° at Chandler, Enid, Guthrie, Okmulgee, Omega, and Kingfisher
Thursday's forecast calls for a high temperatures of 113° in Oklahoma City, which would be the hottest temperature in the city's history. You can see the extreme high of 121° in Freedom, OK using the NWS Mesonet Observations tool.
It was also brutally hot in northern Texas, with the hottest temperature a 118° reading at station DW3597 in Wichita Falls, Texas. This is just shy of the state record of 120° set on August 12, 1936, in Seymour. The Wichita Falls airport hit 112°, which was just 1° below the all-time hottest August temperature ever measured in the city (113° on August 8, 1964.)
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2168
118° at station W1DY (just north of Oklahoma City's Wiley Post Airport)
116° at Claremore
115° at Chandler, Enid, Guthrie, Okmulgee, Omega, and Kingfisher
Thursday's forecast calls for a high temperatures of 113° in Oklahoma City, which would be the hottest temperature in the city's history. You can see the extreme high of 121° in Freedom, OK using the NWS Mesonet Observations tool.
It was also brutally hot in northern Texas, with the hottest temperature a 118° reading at station DW3597 in Wichita Falls, Texas. This is just shy of the state record of 120° set on August 12, 1936, in Seymour. The Wichita Falls airport hit 112°, which was just 1° below the all-time hottest August temperature ever measured in the city (113° on August 8, 1964.)
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2168
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121° in Freedom, Oklahoma (Original Post)
phantom power
Aug 2012
OP
bmbmd
(3,088 posts)1. Awesome.
I was born in Seymour.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)2. When was the dustbowl?
Around the 1930's?
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)3. mid-30's
so yes it seems to be the same time as the previous highs
patrice
(47,992 posts)4. I fear for the trees. That's north & west of "Green Country", right? Vegetation would be
pretty hardy there?
orwell
(7,769 posts)5. Is the heat dome...
...directly over Sen. Inhoffe's house?
pscot
(21,024 posts)6. Holy shit!
Good thing it's ponly cyclical.
hatrack
(59,578 posts)7. As I noted in GD, Freedom fries
nt
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)8. Freedom's just another word
for nothing left to lose.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)9. It's just our imaginations running wild.
Watch more FNC, and you'll know what to think.
madokie
(51,076 posts)10. The town has a colorful history
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)11. FREE DUMB! FREE DUMB! FREE DUMB!