Ticker for November 12, 2001

                
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Much of Oklahoma Remains Unfrozen into Mid-November

Much of our state has yet to experience a freeze this autumn, and the
entire Ticker staff has the backyard mosquitoes to prove it.  In fact,
this is becoming a rare season, as the 90th percentile freeze date has
passed or is soon to pass for almost all of the state.  In English,
that's the date by which a sub-freezing temperature observation has
occurred in 9 of 10 years.

Here's the 90th percentile map for autumn:


Here's a map showing number of hours below freezing so far this autumn,
with the minimum temperature achieved: