Many are cold, but few are frozen

January 2006 bids fair to become the second-warmest January on record in Oklahoma City, with an average temperature between 47 and 48 degrees Fahrenheit. (Records go back to 1891; the warmest was January 1923, at 47.8; the average is 36.7.)

December, by contrast, started out very cold, ended fairly warm, and overall averaged slightly below normal (38.9 versus 39.5).

Yesterday's downpour really wasn't much of one — 0.22 inches at the airport, slightly less up around my part of town — and it brings the total precipitation since the first of November to a parched 0.55. At least we're not being freeze-dried.

Posted at 1:08 PM to Weather or Not