Facts about triple digit temperatures in Oklahoma City history
Will Rogers World Airport is the official weather recording station for Oklahoma City. That station has not recorded triple digits so far this year, but the forecast is calling for actual temperatures of 100 degrees or above possibly beginning this weekend.
Facts about temperature
Oklahoma City
(Records back to 1891):
Average first 100-degree temperature – July 9
Average last 100-degree temperature – Aug. 20
Latest triple-digit temperature – Sept. 30, 1977 (100 degrees)
Earliest triple-digit temperature – April 12, 1972 (100 degrees)
Most consecutive triple-digit days – 22 (Aug. 4-26, 1936)
Most recent streak – 17 (Aug. 19-Sept. 4, 2000 – third longest)
Most triple-digit days in a calendar year – 50 (1980)
Fewest triple-digit days in a calendar year – 0 (Numerous times, most recently in 2004)
Hottest temperature on record – 113 degrees (Aug. 11, 1936)
Hottest temperature in the past 10 years – 108 degrees (Sept. 2 and 3, 2000)
SOURCE: The National Weather Service
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