Day 256: Oklahoma City Temperature Climatology (2000s)

Posted by on 13 Sep 2010 | 0 comments

If you’ve been following along the past two days, you will know that I’m in the midst of a three-day series of posts on the temperature climatology of Oklahoma City during the 30 year period from 1980 – 2009. Two nights ago I focused on temperatures in the 1980s, yesterday focused on the 1990s, and this post focuses on the 2000s.

Day 256 (a)

Above is a graphic depicting the daily temperature in Oklahoma City, OK from 1 January 2000 through 31 December 2009. In red, the daily maximum is plotted with the “normal” daily maximum temperature in black underneath. In blue, the daily minimum temperature is plotted with the “normal” daily minimum temperature in black underneath. As you can see, we are rarely ever near the “normal” temperature on a given day…

I should also note that the 100F temperature is denoted in a red horizontal dashed line, the 32F temperature is denoted as a blue horizontal dashed line, and the 0F temperature is denoted as a purple horizontal dashed line.

Below are some extremes from the 2000s:

  • Lowest Daily Average: 12.0 (2003-02-24)
  • Normal Lowest Daily Average: 36.0

  • Highest Daily Average: 94.0 (2006-08-10)
  • Normal Highest Daily Average: 83.0

  • Lowest Minimum: 6 (2002-03-03, 2005-12-08, 2005-12-09, and 2009-01-28)
  • Normal Lowest Minimum: 26

  • Highest Minimum: 81 (2006-08-02 and 2006-08-10)
  • Normal Highest Minimum: 72

  • Lowest Maximum: 15 (2003-02-24)
  • Normal Lowest Maximum: 46

  • Highest Maximum: 108 (2000-09-02 and 2000-09-03)
  • Normal Highest Maximum: 94

This figure (below) depicts the daily anomaly from the normal maximum temperature of the day.
Day 256 (b)

This figure (below) depicts the daily anomaly from the normal minimum temperature of the day.
Day 256 (c)

This figure (below) depicts the daily anomaly from the normal mean temperature of the day.
Day 256 (d)