What Tulsa Weather Is Really Like
Is it going to thunderstorm, hail, or maybe something worse? The summers are Golden Driller hot and the winters Osage wind with ice sprinkles. Here's what else is going on around Tulsa that will impact the time you spend outside.
Shana, Our Local Expert Guiding Your Move
Shana has been living life in Oklahoma for 43 straight years, collecting local shortcuts and moving stories along the way. She has moved more than 10 times across Oklahoma and learned adulthood the hard way when a DIY move ended with a couch wedged on a second story railing and her dignity hanging in the balance. She won that battle... barely, and now smartly chooses to hire professionals that actually know what they're doing. She loves that throughout Oklahoma you can easily run errands, grab groceries, then be five minutes from cow pastures and wide open land. At Snappy Scout, she turns 43 years of red dirt living into actionable wisdom to share what it's really like to move to and live in Oklahoma.
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What's the Weather Really Like in Tulsa?
The forecast, the fashion, and the fine print locals wish someone had told them sooner.
Summer temps be like
Frying pan chic, humidity blanket, iced tea IV (mostly high 90s, heat index triple digits)
Winter lows are
Coat over hoodie over denial (20s to 30s, teens on blue norther days)
The humidity makes me
Frizz like a tumbleweed in a sauna and stick to anything and everything
Unique weather patterns
Dryline faceoffs and supercell parades, hail like gumballs, straight line winds, sudden spin ups, sirens as spring soundtrack, flash flood cameos, surprise ice glaze some winters
Local weather fashion tip
Buy a windproof rain jacket and stash a car towel, sunglasses, and a spare hoodie year round
You know it's time to get out of town when
the heat index hits 110 again and your steering wheel brands you, so locals flee to Grand Lake, Hochatown, or float the Illinois River
Bugs be like
Mosquitoes with pilot licenses, stealth chiggers in tall grass, June bugs dive bombing porch lights, cicadas run the night shift
You're stuck indoors again today because
the sky booked a 3 p.m. severe thunderstorm with 60 mph gusts and hail, again
Green thumb enthusiasts love
long warm season for tomatoes, okra, and peppers the size of remote controls, crepe myrtles that refuse to quit, prairie natives that shrug at drought with mulch
My Favorite Season in Tulsa
Fall is my favorite season. I love watching the leaves change to gold, red, and burnt orange on Turkey Mountain. The energy of football season rivalry and camaraderie when out and about. Pumpkin patches and corn mazes. The humid sauna of summer is starting to cool to crisp autumn breezes.
— Shana Grandstaff
Oklahoma Local Expert
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