Clear Skies | Oklahoma Weather

Good morning! I'm Aaron Jolly. And welcome to the Oklahoma Weather Podcast — it's Monday, February 23rd. Twenty-eight degrees right now. Clear skies. Dead calm. The kind of morning where frost glitters on windshields like broken glass. But don't let the freeze fool you. This is the last gasp of winter. A high-pressure system that's been squatting over north Texas all weekend is finally packing its bags and sliding southeast. And as it goes, everything flips. Those light easterly winds? They're about to swing south, pulling warmer air north like a blanket sliding up the bed. By four PM, Central Oklahoma hits fifty-four degrees. Southwest Oklahoma climbs to fifty-seven under pure sunshine. Even Northeast Oklahoma, always the stubborn cold spot, reaches forty-nine. That's a twenty-six-degree jump from where you started this morning. Tonight? Forget about the freeze. Lows drop only to forty-one in Central Oklahoma. Thirty-seven in the southwest. Mid-thirties in the northeast. That's warmer than this morning's high. Then Tuesday arrives. And things get wild. A deepening low in the High Plains cranks up the winds. Gusts hit thirty-two miles an hour in Central Oklahoma. Thirty in the southwest. And with those winds comes heat — real heat. Highs soar into the seventies statewide. Seventy-one in Central. Seventy-five in the southwest. Seventy in the northeast. That's fifteen degrees above normal for late February. But here's the catch. All that warmth and wind, combined with bone-dry air, creates fire weather conditions. Don't burn anything Tuesday. Just don't. The warmth hangs around through midweek. A weak front Wednesday night might bring a sprinkle up north, but nothing serious. Thursday cools briefly to the mid-sixties before another warm-up Friday. Weekend highs stay in the seventies, with just a slight shower chance late Saturday. Spring is knocking. And it's not taking no for an answer. That's your forecast — we'll be back tomorrow.