Monthly Climatological Summary Norman 3SE, Cleveland Co., OK (Lat 35^10'57"N, Lon 97^25'27"W, elev 1130) October 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Temperature Precipitation Snow AM PM Max Min Water Snow Depth Wx Wx ------------------------------------------------------------------ 01 88.3 66.0 .00 0.0 0 BKN BKN 02 88.9 70.7 .00 0.0 0 BKN SCT 03 88.7 69.4 .00 0.0 0 BKN SCT 04 76.1 54.3 .02 0.0 0 -SHRA SKC 05 76.8 46.8 .00 0.0 0 SKC SCT 06 78.8 61.0 .06 0.0 0 -TSRA TSRA 07 72.3 51.1 .00 0.0 0 OVC OVC 08 59.4 54.1 .79 0.0 0 -RA RA 09 60.1 54.1 .55 0.0 0 RA -DZ 10 63.9 56.3 T 0.0 0 -DZ OVC 11 71.4 54.9 .00 0.0 0 OVC SCT 12 73.9 53.6 .01 0.0 0 -DZ FG OVC 13 58.8 40.1 .00 0.0 0 BKN BKN 14 61.2 39.6 .00 0.0 0 BKN SCT 15 66.0 39.9 .00 0.0 0 SKC SKC 16 65.3 41.5 .00 0.0 0 BKN BKN 17 69.8 38.1 .00 0.0 0 SKC BKN 18 69.8 54.1 .03 0.0 0 -RA OVC 19 66.9 48.0 .45 0.0 0 -DZ RA 20 64.8 46.0 .13 0.0 0 -RA FEW 21 65.7 47.3 .00 0.0 0 OVC BKN 22 63.0 55.6 -RA OVC 23 24 FG 25 26 27 FG 28 TSRA 29 FG 30 31 39.9 (3.26) KEY TO AM/PM WX: SKC - sky clear, FEW - few clouds, SCT - partly cloudy, BKN - mostly cloudy, OVC - overcast, DZ - drizzle, RA - rain, SHRA - rain shower, TSRA - thunderstorm with rain, FG - fog. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Means and Totals for October 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Average Maximum Temperature: --.- Average Minimum Temperature: --.- Mean Temperature: --.- Maximum Temperature: 88.9 (10-02-02) Minimum Temperature: 38.1 (10-17-02) Days with max temperature 90.0F+: 0 Year: 66 Days with max temperature <32.0F: 0 Year: 4 Days with min temperature <32.0F: 0 Year: 46 Days with min temperature <0.0F: 0 Year: 0 Precipitation: 5.30 Year: 29.60 Greatest one-day precipitation: Snowfall: 0.0 Year: 2.4 Greatest one-day snowfall: 0.0 Maximum snow depth at midnight: 0 Days with measureable pcpn: 14 Year: 77 Days with pcpn 1.00"+: 2 Year: 10 Days with measureable snowfall: 0 Year: 3 Days with snowfall 1"+: 0 Year: 1 Days with glaze ice: 0 Year: 2 Days with damaging wind: 0 Year: 4 Days with hail: 0 Year: 1 Days with thunderstorms: 2 Year: 41 Days with fog: 4 Year: 15
NOTICE: All temperatures are in degrees Fahrenheit and all precipitation values in inches. Snowfall totals denoted by an asterisk indicate hail.
Although the first three days of the month saw humid, July-like weather, central Oklahoma was more like western Washington in Oct 2002 with many days of gloomy, drizzly, and chilly weather.
I spent the final week of the month in my former hometown of Turlock CA - my first visit there in two years. The town hasn't changed all that much since the last time I visited, except that there are now strip malls, housing subdivisions, and a massive new high school where orchards and cow pastures once existed. And Main Street got a HUGE facelift. And the population increased by almost 10,000. The weather was still the same as it had been for the past 6 months - DRY. Turlock had its first rainless October since 1995, and its streak of days without measurable precipitation stood at 164 days at the end of the month. Quite a contrast to how the weather was in Norman while I was gone, where I found 3.26 inches of rain in my gauge when I got back at 4am on Nov 1. That was the most rainwater I had ever seen in a rain gauge in my 15 years of observing, and quite a shock to someone who emptied about .02 inch of dirt and bugs from a rain gauge in Turlock several days earlier.