After more than 36 hours of layering on ice and snow, Winter Storm Fern finally moved on from Oklahoma.
Even as the last bands of snowfall from the massive winter weather system headed out Sunday, Jan. 25 toward New England, the Sooner State stayed locked in a deep freeze.
Although the winter storm didn’t dump as much snow on the state as some forecasts predicted — in part, due to a very dry layer of air near the Earth’s surface, according to meteorologist Mike Collier — the National Weather Service in Norman awarded Oklahoma City new daily snowfall records with the 4.4 inches of snow that fell on Saturday, Jan. 25 and the 3 inches that fell on Sunday…