Rainfall Map Oklahoma (2024)

FAQs

What part of Oklahoma gets the most rain? ›

The dominant feature of the spatial distribution of rainfall across Oklahoma is a sharp decrease in rainfall from east to west. Although precipitation is quite variable on a year-to-year basis, average annual precipitation ranges from about 17 inches in the far western panhandle to about 56 inches in the far southeast.

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The greatest official rainfall in a 24-hour period is 15.68 inches at Enid on October 11, 1973. The character of precipitation also varies by season.

The average annual temperature is 60 degrees Fahrenheit / 16 degrees Celsius with an average rainfall of 33.6 inches / 85.3 centimeters and average snowfall of 9.7 inches / 24.6 centimeters per year.

Evaporation increases as the atmosphere warms, which increases humidity, average rainfall, and the frequency of heavy rainstorms in many places—but contributes to drought in others. While most of the earth warmed during the last century, natural cycles and sulfates in the air cooled eastern Oklahoma.

A major producer of natural gas, oil, and agricultural products, Oklahoma relies on an economic base of aviation, energy, telecommunications, and biotechnology. Oklahoma City and Tulsa serve as Oklahoma's primary economic anchors, with nearly two-thirds of Oklahomans living within their metropolitan statistical areas.

The biggest rainfall in a day occurred with the passage of Cyclone Denise in Foc-Foc, La Réunion, an island in the southern Indian Ocean. Some 1.825 meters (71.8 inches) of rain fell over 24 hours, from January 7 to 8, 1966.

The hottest temperature ever recorded in Oklahoma is 120 degrees, reached on several days in 1936. The hottest U.S. temperature is also the hottest temperature ever recorded on the planet, 134 degrees in Death Valley, California in 1913. Every state in the nation has hit 100 degrees.

The driest month in Oklahoma City is January with 1.28 inches of precipitation, and with 5.44 inches May is the wettest month.

1. Hawaii. As the only U.S. state in the tropics, Hawaii receives more precipitation than any other state.

Is July or August hotter in Oklahoma? ›

Temperatures during July are typically highest in south-central and southwestern Oklahoma. Waurika is the hot spot, posting an average monthly temperature of 85.1 degrees.

Where is the rainiest place on Earth? Surprisingly, it's not Wales. According to Guinness World Records, the place with the highest average annual rainfall is the village of Mawsynram in northeastern India, which receives nearly 12,000mm of rain per year (Cardiff, in comparison, receives just 1,150mm).

Warm, moist air moving northward from the Gulf of Mexico often exerts much influence, particularly over the southern and eastern portions of the state, where humidity, cloudiness and precipitation are resultantly greater than in western and northern sections.

Nowata goes down in the record books as the coldest spot ever recorded in the state of Oklahoma. About 7:40 AM on Thursday morning, February 10, 2011- Nowata's mesonet station sent in a reading of 31 degrees below zero.

Oklahoma City lies in a temperate humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa), with frequent variations in weather daily and seasonally, except during the consistently hot and humid summer months. Consistent winds, usually from the south or south-southeast during the summer, help temper the hotter weather.