Volume 11 , Issue 52

Duchess Snowy Domain

My friend Ruff says, Merry Christmas Poker and Happy New Year 2010 to All!

We hope and wish you all a Happy New Year for 2010 as 2009 winds down this coming weekend. Did you get stuffed again with your family holiday feasts? We hope your Christmas Day was white and merry and that your family arrived safely to their destinations. Ours did here in SW Colorado. Also, we hear that central Oklahoma all the way to the Red River in the southern most part of Oklahoma received from 14 inches to 5 or 6 inches of snow on Christmas day. Another record breaking snowfall for this time of year.



There is a place online Weather Warehouse that shows the record snowfalls in Oklahoma and other states. Some in Oklahoma go back as far as 1902 or 1905. Using the above link you can choose the State link that you want to look at the historical monthly weather data. We clicked the State of Oklahoma and found the following monthly weather data from 1905 to 2009 for January thru December:

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

NW Okie selected February, because she was born in February of 1948 and her oldest son, Michael was born October 1971 when February's Winter snow storms were one of the historical record breaking snow storms in Oklahoma. The year of 1948 total snow fall for the month showed 13 inches with 4.5 inches falling in a 24 hour time; 1971 shows 13 inches of snow falling in a 24 hour timeline with a monthly snowfall of 18 inches; 1940 shows a monthly snowfall of 18 inches with 11.5 inches falling in a 24 hour period; 1938 shows monthly snowfall of 14.6 inches with 12 inches falling in a 24 hour period; 1912 shows a monthly snowfall for February of 22 inches with 12 inches falling in a 24 hour period. That is just a few of the snowfall records for Alva, Oklahoma from 1905 thru 2008, in Northwest Oklahoma.

In December 2007 they show the total monthly snowfall of 13.8 inces and 6.1 inches fell in a 24 hour period. If you scroll down to 1958, the December monthly snowfall reads 13.5 inches of which 5.5 inches fell in a 24 hour period. 1943 shows 14 inches monthly snowfall with 8 inches falling in a 24 hour period. The year before, 1942, shows 13 inches monthly snowfall with 6.5 inches falling in a 24 hour period. 1918 when NW Okie's father, Gene McGill, was two years old, shows a monthly snowfall for December at 15 inches with 13 inches falling in a 24 hour period. 1911 shows a monthly snowfall of 17 inches with 10 inches falling in a 24 hour period. 1904 shows 18.5 inches for the December monthly snowfall with 6 inches falling in a 24 hour period.

What year and month were you born? What was the weather like during your birthdays?
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