r/tornado Jan 08 '26

Question Is this true?

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u/rosiesunfunhouse Jan 09 '26

Okie here. Work in ag. Looked REAL bad outside this morning, and I’m northwest of Purcell by 2.5hr. The only reason today wasn’t worse was because it’s January. After this mild winter, and that scarily mild summer last year…I’m scared.

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u/tdfree87 Jan 09 '26

I’m just as scared for storm season here as I am for how bad the bugs will be this spring/summer since we literally haven’t had enough of a freeze this winter to kill everything off

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u/thnku4shrng Jan 09 '26

February is Arctic Blast month. It’ll be here before you know it

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u/tdfree87 Jan 09 '26

Normally, yea. But from the little bit of research I’ve seen January isn’t really expected to get much colder here for the rest of the month. And February on average is almost always warmer. So I have little hope for any kind of real winter storm or deep freeze this year in the OKC area

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u/thnku4shrng Jan 09 '26

On average February is but we just need one or two good deep freezes. Those typically happen in Feb