Ticker for July 23, 2001

                
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It's Official: Yesterday Was Year's Warmest

Yesterday's average statewide temperature of 88.03 F was the warmest
measured to date in 2001.  The average temperature, computed from
Oklahoma Mesonet data, was the warmest since September 4th, 2000.
The average temperature was the 13th-warmest observed since the
Mesonet began full operations in 1994.  That puts the day in the
99th percentile of hot days in Oklahoma.  If there's such a thing as
the 99.5th percentile, it's in that, too.

The average statewide maximum temperature of 101.17 F was the year's
second-warmest (101.43, July 12th).  Yesterday's maximum temperature
of 110 F at Cherokee matched the hottest Mesonet observation of the
year (Hollis, July 12th).

It is now more than a month since significant rainfall has fallen at
several Mesonet stations.  A complete map is available at