Gary McManus, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, takes a look at March weather, so far
From Gary McManus, Associate State Climatologist, Oklahoma Climatological Survey:
It’s March 15 and no 80-degree temperature yet. We did hit 75 degrees at the Waurika Mesonet site on the ninth.
The low temperature for the month thus far was 18 degrees at Cookson on the third.
Temperatures have been fairly close to normal for the most part. Unfortunately it’s a continuation of the same problem we’ve had for much of the winter with high temperatures being below normal and the low temperatures being more moderate. For March thus far, the statewide average high temperature was 58.3 degrees, 2 degrees below normal, while the average low was 2.2 degrees above normal at 36.7 degrees. That equals an average high temperature of 47.5 degrees, which is 0.1 degrees above normal.
Even though there are promises of temperatures in the mid-to-upper 60s in the coming days, the longer-range outlooks from the CPC show us with above-normal chances at below-normal temperatures for the 6-10 day period.
At least the chances of normal or above-normal temperatures even out as we close out the month, based upon the 8-14 day outlook.
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