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A Brief History of Clime

Earlier this afternoon, OCS's Climate Information Group launched a new
suite of timelines which show the evolution of Oklahoma's months,
seasons and years since the mid-1890s.

You can use these timelines to see striking trends, like the recent
30-year trend of much wetter Marches statewide:


You can also see the decadal cycling of Oklahoma's September
precipitation:


Perhaps you will wonder why the panhandle's winters have warmed in recent
decades, while southeast Oklahoma's summer temperature almost seems to
show two eras: a warm one before 1957 and a cooler one since:




Ayway, you can see these and 336 other timelines at the OCS Climate Data
pages:

http://climate.mesonet.org/
(click on "Climate Trends" in the menu)