Bugs, weather questions (Broken Arrow, Stillwater, Howe: to live, floor, food)

[Threestep2]

Has anyone peeked out of the window this morning?

[swake]

37 and cloudy. No ice or snow, but there is a chance for snow tomorrow in Tulsa. On KOTV they said there's a slight chance we will get as much as 3 inches. Enough snow to build a snowman, which hasn't happened in 8 years. We will get down to single digits on Monday, the coldest it's been all year. But by next weekend we will be in the 60s.

It's been 8 years since as much as even 3 inches of snow has fallen. We really don't have much in the way of winter.

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by swake

37 and cloudy. No ice or snow, but there is a chance for snow tomorrow in Tulsa. On KOTV they said there's a slight chance we will get as much as 3 inches. Enough snow to build a snowman, which hasn't happened in 8 years. We will get down to single digits on Monday, the coldest it's been all year. But by next weekend we will be in the 60s.

It's been 8 years since as much as even 3 inches of snow has fallen. We really don't have much in the way of winter.

As cold as it's been this winter we still haven't had close to the winter that Kansas has had. So I won't complain. They have just been hammered with freezing temps and precip.

I'm west of OKC and no ice or snow. Low 30s.

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Windy, white roofs with icycles. Food for strays is gone, bird feeders are frozen and I dumped food on the iced over patio.

OP did not inquire about KS. Yes, I have a dear friend there and I know about their winter.

[swake]

it's a dusting of snow, not even close to a single inch. The streets are completely clear.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by eddie gein

As cold as it's been this winter we still haven't had close to the winter that Kansas has had. So I won't complain. They have just been hammered with freezing temps and precip.

I'm west of OKC and no ice or snow. Low 30s.

This is the first winter in many years that Kansas has been somewhat similar to a real Midwest winter, those areas generally well north of the state, corresponding to the Corn Belt. Marquette, MI saw 88” of snowfall in February and has a current snow depth of over 50”. Brookings, SD saw a low of -22F this morning. Those conditions in March tend to weed out the people that “dislike” winter.

[teakboat]

This is true, but it has not always been like this. The jet stream has been further north, for about 3 years or so, and we don't seem to get real winters anymore. The 70's and 80's were an entirely different matter, we did get major winters then, and the schools had real reasons to burn their "snow days" back then.

Winters have been fairly mild, and the summers have been completely comfortable for several years, back to about 2014.

The real winters will return, I guess, and we will miss these years.

Originally Posted by swake

Currently 0% of Oklahoma is in severe drought, 1% is in moderate drought. Western Oklahoma was in severe drought a year ago, but not central and eastern Oklahoma.

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Curre...onitor.aspx?OK

Schools in Oklahoma close for any kind of hint of bad roads. And icicles are not the indicator of a major ice storm, I'm talking closed roads, fallen tree limbs and power lines, I'm not talking 1/8th of an inch of ice that gone by 9AM the next day. Yesterday there was a little bit of ice on my car and visible snow flecks on the streets. I let the car run for a few minutes and then I didn't even have to scrape the ice and the roads were fine. It wasn't an ice storm, much less a major one. We don't remotely have serious winters here.

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Has anyone looked outside this morning?

[Sachsen]

Originally Posted by zugzug

I'm looking into moving to the Oklahoma City or Tulsa area. Two questions:

1) Is the bug problem that bad? I imagine the houses crawling with brown recluse spiders and other nasty bugs. Is it really that bad in say, Broken Arrow? Somewhere in the middle of the suburbs? Or are the bugs worse near the lakes?

2) Is the summer heat really that bad? Does a pool help the situation and make it livable? How much of the year is nice weather?

3) How is the air quality? I am moving from a place with bad air.

Everyone on here complaining about bugs, makes me wonder where they are living. I don't think it's that bad.

I've lived in Broken Arrow for over 13 years and I've never once seen a brown recluse. We do get plenty of wolf spiders but they are pretty much harmless, no one in my family has ever been bitten.

The worst bug problem is ants for about 2-3 weeks in the spring, just have to make sure all the food in the kitchen is tightly sealed. They like to get into pet food down on the floor as well.

If you spend time at lakes and in the woods you have to deal with ticks and mosquitoes, but they aren't an issue in town.

Feel free to ask if you have any other questions about Broken Arrow, we love it here. And ignore StillwaterTownie, he never has anything positive to say about Oklahoma but he posts in every single thread in this forum.

[StillwaterTownie]

Originally Posted by Sachsen

Feel free to ask if you have any other questions about Broken Arrow, we love it here. And ignore StillwaterTownie, he never has anything positive to say about Oklahoma but he posts in every single thread in this forum.

What an all out lie. My saying bugs in Oklahoma aren't as bad as they are in Florida is pretty positive. But if you've have never driven through most of Florida, you wouldn't know you gotta stop a bunch of times to scrap bugs off your front window.