Oklahoma City, OK weather
Right now 64°, cloudy · today 75° / 61°, rain · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 64° · cloudy · wind NNE 6 mph · the same as this time yesterday · at Will Rogers World, 9:30 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
A slight chance of rain showers between 7am and 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 75. North northeast wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Seven days
Winter in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City averages 7 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a occasional snow place. Snow is a few-times-a-year event. Limited equipment means modest amounts cause real disruption.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 7 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 2 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Oklahoma City
The nearest radiosonde launch is Norman, about 20 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Oklahoma City (api.weather.gov), updated Sat, 6:27 AM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.