Ticker for November 20, 2002

                
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Iceman Yet to Cometh to Southern Oklahoma

Yesterday morning's frosty temperatures eliminated several Mesonet
stations from the "waiting to freeze" list.  Now, just a smattering
of stations - mainly in south-central and west-central Oklahoma -
have yet to observe sub-freezing temps this autumn:



So, how rare is this?  Well, it's a few weeks past the "normal"
first-freeze dates for southern Oklahoma (sometime in the first two
weeks of November).  However, we're still few weeks away from the
latest first-freezes on record: