On the warm side

March 2007 bids fair to become the third warmest March on record in Oklahoma City; so far the monthly average has been 59 degrees, well above 1938 (57.4) and a tad below second-place 1907 (59.5). It's not that the days have been so warm, it's that the nights haven't been cold: the last freeze was on the 5th (more typically, it's around the 29th or 30th), and the temperature hasn't dropped below 60 in a week. No wonder the voice of the lawn mower is heard in the land.

This warm March follows an average February, an average January, and a slightly-warmer-than-average December — and we're still about an inch above normal for snowfall despite not having had any since mid-February.