The weekend brought stocking cap weather to Kingfisher County.

Saturday featured a sharp breeze. Sunday delivered notice that winter has arrived, dropping temperatures well below freezing.

Hard north winds made the cold even more uncomfortable.

In fact, temperature devices indicated a chill factor of minus-2 degrees locally Sunday morning, along with a smattering of freezing rain in the early morning hours, followed by light snow Sunday afternoon.

Monday’s low reading also carried a “feels like -1 degree warning.”

The local temperature stayed below freezing throughout the day Sunday.

Many Oklahomans felt the effects of a winter storm and arctic cold front on Sunday, with snow falling across northern and central Oklahoma and bitter cold temperatures blanketing the state by the afternoon.

Adding to it was the brutal north-northwesterly winds brought in by the Canadian-Arctic front.

Winds on Sunday were steadily above 20 miles per hour with a maximum gust of 41 miles per hour recorded in Kingfisher, according to the Mesonet.

While locally there were no major electric outages reported, there were sev- “ blips” reported throughout the day Sunday.

Multiple OG&E crews were seen in the county, though other parts of the state were more heavily affected, most notably in northwest and northern Oklahoma.

Some of those areas were blanketed with snow, at times providing “blizzard- like” conditions and multiple highways in the state were affected.

Oklahoma Department of Transportation crews reported primarily slick and hazardous conditions, including blowing snow in northern Oklahoma from the Panhandle eastward. Crews are actively working to treat slick spots in western and northeastern Oklahoma, officials said. OG&E reported a spike in customers without power as of 4:20 p.m. Sunday as more than 3,000 of the company’s customers were without power, with just under 2,000 reported in Ellis County. Oklahoma’s Electric Cooperatives outage map showed 1,900 customers were also without power Sunday afternoon. Just under 800 customers in Alfalfa County were without power as of 4:25 p.m. Sunday, while 431 customers in Woods County also had no power.

The local snow did not produce enough to cover the ground.

Kansas received as much as 15 inches of snow, The Kansas City Star reported.

USA Today reported a major winter storm that turned deadly in the Midwest over the weekend pummeled the Mid-Atlantic region Monday, prompting travel hazards, shutting down schools and closing federal offices in the nation’s capital.

Tens of millions were under winter storm advisories and hundreds of thousand were without power as the storm stretched from Kansas to Virginia and Washington, D.C.

The local forecast called for continuing cold days the rest of the week with highs in the low 30s to high 20s and overnight lows well below freezing.

The forecast called for a chance of additional snow locally Thursday and Friday.