Back on February 10, 2011, Nowata, Oklahoma, set the all time Oklahoma record for the coldest temperature ever. At 7:40 a.m., the Oklahoma Mesonet weather station in Nowata reached 31 degrees below zero...minus 31! Bear in mind, mercury freezes at -38 degrees. It was so cold in Nowata that the thermometers were just 7 degrees away from freezing solid! This broke the previous Oklahoma all-time record low temperature of minus 27 degrees, set at in Vinita on February 13, 1905, and also in Watts on January 18, 1930.

But, that's not the only amazing thing that happened weather wise in Nowata. As Will Rogers once quipped, "If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change." Today, just 7 days after its record cold, Nowata was a pleasant 75 degrees, a 106 degree change in just a week!

(Alternatively, the low a week ago was -27 and the high today was 82 for a 109 degree change. There appears to be some discrepancy between the National Weather Service and the Oklahoma Mesonet.)