Today is our last day of pretty reasonable summer temperatures for a while. The heat dome comes back in full force this weekend through next week. 🌡️

Temperatures will be reasonable for one more day (especially where it's cloudier and/or rainier), but the much muggier air is returning today. So in the areas where we see less rain and more sun, the heat index will climb back over 100° this afternoon.

Friday Forecast: Widely scattered showers and isolated storms will slowly drift across northeastern Oklahoma this afternoon. If you end up under one later today, enjoy the cool-down!

You'll want to enjoy it, because more triple digits are looming starting later this weekend.

Some cooling storms are rolling across southeast Kansas. The brunt of these will stay north of the state line, but a few widely scattered downpours will be possible in extreme northeastern Oklahoma through the midday hours. Highs this afternoon will again be pretty darn reasonable for late July!

Scattered showers Thursday morning near the Oklahoma/Kansas state line will give way to more reasonably hot temperatures Thursday afternoon. We'll take it because... another triple digit surge shows up this weekend into next week.

A nice northeast breeze and slightly drier air will make a big difference today! Yeah, still toasty this afternoon -- but after the insanity of 120-125° heat index values yesterday, this will be MUCH more reasonable.

Straight-up OFFENSIVE melt-your-face-off heat and humidity across eastern Oklahoma today. Sweet mercy. 🔥 Several @mesonet.org sensors had heat index values over 120°. Okmulgee reached a ridiculous 125° heat index, and that occurred AFTER 7 PM this evening.

Tropical Storm Bertha is very slowly spinning across the Gulf and it'll continue to track west over the next few days. Right now it's expected to remain at tropical storm strength and eventually become disorganized as it reaches southeast Texas at the end of the week. No impacts for Green Country.

Tulsa stopped just shy of 100° yesterday, but we'll get there this afternoon for the first time this year. It's been 337 days since our last triple digit day! We're forecasting 102°, and it's been almost two years since we climbed that high. It's been close to three years since we reached 103°+.

🔥 Not much needs to be said about this brutally hot Tuesday forecast: The numbers speak for themselves. Yikes! Soak up the A/C today but if you need to get outside, please be very careful!

It's late July, and our weather is doing some very "late July" things. We'll make a run at 100° today, and if we don't quite get there today it looks quite likely on Tuesday. No breeze either. 🥵 Temperatures and heat indices will back off a *smidge* by mid-week as a very weak front nudges through.

Tulsa's long-term average first 100° day is July 10th. We're expecting our first day or two of 100° temps of 2026 to start this week.

I'm back in the saddle today, and oh... oh no... I think I brought a heat wave back with me. 🥵 A Monday scorcher with some of reaching 100° for the first time this year (heat index near 110°) and no breeze to cool us off. Please be very careful outside today! Heat stress could set in very quickly.

Anyone made this joke yet? *Puts hand to ear* What's that... everyone already has? Oh well, I'm still doing it anyway. Argentina vs Spain:

Storm chances in Green Country this weekend are the highest from Saturday late afternoon through Sunday morning, and we'll take a little edge off of the heat by the second half of the weekend into the first half of next week.

A better chance of scattered storms shows up Saturday afternoon through Saturday night across eastern Oklahoma, including the Tulsa metro. Once again a few could become severe with downburst wind potential. Higher storm chances look to push into far southeastern Oklahoma Sunday.

Here comes the weekend! A hot and humid Friday (no surprise), but if you're north of Tulsa keep an eye to the sky late in the day. A few isolated storms look to develop closer to the OK/KS state line from late afternoon through the evening, and one or two could be severe with downburst winds.

Heat stress can set in very quickly on a day like today, so please be smart with your outdoor activities!

Areas of rain moved across northeast Oklahoma and southeast Kansas this morning, but unfortunately that won't keep us from more sweltering weather this afternoon. Areas from Tulsa to the west will make a run at 100°. And heat index values will be back above 105° to near 110° in many locations.

Hot and sticky conditions typically don't go anywhere this time of year and, well... yeah they're sticking around. But additional scattered storm chances from late week into the weekend will take a brief edge off of the heat for some of us.

The heat and humidity are ramping up another notch today. We have a Heat Advisory for this afternoon and evening with some heat index values climbing over 105°. 🥵

Typical early July heat continues. Today & Wednesday will remain stagnant & stuffy with no breeze to help us out. The chance for those daily isolated pop-up downpours will continue later in the week with a slightly higher signal for scattered storms showing up generally towards Friday and Saturday.

An upper level area of low pressure is spinning just off to our east. Kinda looks like a cinnamon roll! Now I'm hungry... Anyway, with that upper low spinning nearby a few pop-up storms are expected to occur in far eastern/southeastern OK this afternoon & evening. Downburst winds will be possible.

For the 2nd time in 3 years, storms wreaked major havoc on 4th of July celebrations in Green Country. 2024 also brought evening storms that caused cancellations of fireworks shows and some wind damage. These are Tulsa-specific stats, but it tells the general story of our recent 4th of July weather!

10:00 PM: The squall line now stretches from McAlester to Stigler to Stilwell moving southeast. Wind gusts of 50-60 mph remain possible along the leading edge gust front ahead of the rain and also embedded within the line.

9:15 PM: Squall line continues to narrow southeast into far eastern/southeastern OK. The leading edge of strong winds will arrive well ahead of the rain — that’s the line I drew on this radar image. Some damaging gusts to 60 mph are still possible along the leading edge and within the squall line.

8:30 PM: The leading edge of the squall line continues from Bristow to Broken Arrow to Claremore to near Vinitia moving southeast. Damaging 60 mph gusts still occurring within the line along with a ton of lightning. If you’re ahead of this line, head to safe shelter. Lake-goers: Get off the water!

7:35 PM: If you’re out ahead of this squall line, you need to head inside for safe shelter! That includes the Tulsa metro. Damaging 60-70 mph winds are possible along with very dangerous lightning and torrential rains.

6:20 PM Saturday: A line of intense severe storms is entering northwestern Osage County. Damaging wind gusts of 70+ mph could occur as this approaches Shidler, Fairfax, and Burbank. On its current pace, this line will be approaching Tulsa near/after 8 PM.