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Spring #2




Spring, HA! Any Okie worth their salt (I prefer pepper) knows not to fall for
false spring #2. See, we had false spring #1 back in early February, and then the
winter hit the fan again.



Dang, now that I look at that it appears 2025 has been mostly pretty darned cold.
Nobody wants to revisit last week's Arctic blast, so I will. Miami was the last
Mesonet site to break back above freezing, right at about 113 hours.



And it got cold, ladies and gentlemen (and most of the rest of ya). How cold,
you ask? Well, the statewide average temperature on Feb. 19 was 9.6F, which is
33rd-coldest day on record in Oklahoma, dating back to at least 1920. Of course,
that pales in comparison to Feb. 16 and 15, 2021, which came in at -0.6F and -0.2F,
respectively, to take the top-2 spots. Now keep in mind that January 14 and 15,
2024, were both colder than last Wednesday at 7.4F and 8.8F, respectively again
(more like DISrespectively being that cold), so maybe not the coldest air we've
seen since 2021. I've tried to reflect on that January 2024 cold air outbreak
several times, but it hasn't really taken hold. The Rodney Dangerfield of
Oklahoma cold air outbreaks, I guess.

Anyway, we're talking spring again. While we will see some ups and downs, as per
usual in Oklahoma weather, we won't be seeing anything like last week again
this season. That's not to say it won't get cold again, which it definitely will,
or even that it won't get DANGED cold again, which it probably will, but we have
a good 7-10 days of "hey, it feels like spring" weather.







Heck (no, it's not raining right now, for crying out loud!), tomorrow looks
even better than today! Then we get a more normal late-February day--but still
above normal--on Wednesday.





We do need rain. We'll talk more about that tomorrow. Until then. enjoy spring
whilst it's here. It'll be summer in a couple of weeks. Then winter again.

Gary McManus
State Climatologist
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climate Survey
gmcmanus@ou.edu