By Ryan Maue, Watts Up With That

From:  NewsOK.com

The coldest temperature ever recorded in Oklahoma was set today. The Oklahoma Mesonet weather station at Nowata reached minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit actual temperature at 7:40 a.m. today. That will be considered for the official state record.

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That mark eclipses the previous all-time record low state temperature of minus 27 degrees, set at at Vinita, Feb. 13, 1905, and Watts, Jan. 18, 1930.

Also, the Mesonet station at Medford recorded a wind chill of minus 47 degrees at 7:45 a.m. setting a Mesonet record. The Oklahoma Mesonet, which began in 1994, has 120 stations throughout Oklahoma.

The cold came after a snow that set a new seasonal snowfall record in places like Tulsa.

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Hey Watts, you just went down! 

Where is the -31F: “That’s me in the corner. That’s me in the spotlight. I’m Losing my global warming religion…

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The average temperature in January 2011 was 30.0 F. This was -0.8 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 37th coolest January in 117 years. The temperature trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit per decade.

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1.48 inches of precipitation fell in January. This was -0.74 inches less than the 1901-2000 average, the 9th driest such month on record. The precipitation trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is -0.01 inches per decade.  H/T Tom Nelson.