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Meteorological events that happened on November 30th:
November 30 is St. Andrew's Day Eve. According to Eastern European weather folklore, if you fill a glass to the brim with water on this evening and let it stand all night on the grass, you will be able to foretell a wet or dry year to come. If any water has spilled the next morning, expect a wet year to come. Otherwise, it will be dry.
1784
The first manned balloon ascent for the purpose of taking upper air meteorological measurements took place. The balloon rose 6,500 feet into the sky over London, England.
1875
A severe early season cold wave set November records across the northeastern U.S.
Philadelphia, PA dropped to 8°, their coldest November temperature and only November day seen in the single digits. Boston, MA set two November records: The morning low of 2° was a record low for November and the afternoon high of 10° is the coldest high temperature for November and the only November day where the high failed to reach 20°. Other daily record low temperatures included: Eastport, ME: -13°, Portland, ME: -6°, Rochester, NY: 1°, Buffalo, NY: 2°, Boston, MA: 2°, New York (Central Park), NY: 7° and Philadelphia, PA: 8°.
1896
The southern Plains and upper Midwest was experiencing a brutally severe cold wave. Pokagama Dam, MN dropped to -43°. Daily record lows for the date included: Havre, MT: -30°, Grand Forks, ND: -25°, Williston, ND: -24°, Fargo, ND: -24°, Bismarck, ND: -21°, Duluth, MN: -20°, Lander, WY: -19°, Huron, SD: -17°, Valentine, NE: -15°, Sioux Falls, SD: -12°, Pueblo, CO: -10°, Minneapolis, MN: -10°, Norfolk, NE: -10°, Scottsbluff, NE: -10°, Sioux City, IA: -9°, Missoula, MT: -4°, Des Moines, IA: -2°, Grand Island, NE: -2°, Omaha, NE: -2°, Boise, ID: -1°, Lincoln, NE: -1°, Salt Lake City, UT: 0°, Colorado Springs, CO: 3°, Concordia, KS: 4°, Topeka, KS: 4°, Pendleton, OR: 4°, Kansas City, MO: 5°, Columbia, MO: 6°, Spokane, WA: 8°, Springfield, MO: 9°, Wichita, KS: 10°, Oklahoma City, OK: 14°, Brownsville, TX: 30° and Corpus Christi, TX: 30°.
1917
88 inches of precipitation fell during the month of November at Swanson Bay, British Columbia Canada setting a record.
1925
An extremely rare late November hurricane began to affect the west coast of Florida as it strengthened during the day. The storm made landfall very early on December 1st south of Tampa Bay, weakened to a tropical storm as it crossed central Florida, and exited around St. Augustine. The storm regained Hurricane strength off Jacksonville late on the 1st. Heavy rain continued over northeast Florida on the 2nd. Gale force winds were reported from the Keys to Jacksonville and over 50 people lost their lives, mostly on ships at sea. Damage along the coast south of Jacksonville was heavy and excessive rain and wind seriously damaged citrus and truck crops.
1955
Gale-force winds and heavy seas pound the southwestern Nova Scotia coast. A Cape Breton lighthouse keeper and his wife are lost in the storm.
1957
On this date through December 1st, Lee slope winds, enhanced by Hurricane Nina, gusted to 82 mph at Honolulu, HI, a record wind gust for that location. Wainiha, on the island of Kauai, was deluged with 20.42 inches of rain, and 35 foot waves pounded some Kauai beaches, even though the eye of the hurricane was never within 120 miles of the islands.
1959
This was the sunniest November in Fresno, CA history with a total of 302 hours and 50 seconds of sunshine or 99% of the total possible.
1964
An upper level trough and arctic surface high pressure brought extreme cold to the Plains and Midwest. Locations reporting record low November temperatures included: Minneapolis, MN: -17°, Blair, WI: -8°, Minneapolis, MN: -3° and St. Louis, MO: 1°. Other daily record lows included: International Falls, MN: -27°, Aberdeen, SD: -27°, Bismarck, ND: -25°, Duluth, MN: -23°, Huron, SD: -21°, Sioux Falls, SD: -17°, Norfolk, NE: -15°, Omaha, NE: -9°, Grand Island, NE: -5°, Lincoln, NE: -5°, Des Moines, IA: -3°, Concordia, KS: 4°-Tied, Springfield, MO: 8°, Wichita, KS: 10°-Tied, Paducah, KY: 11°, Tulsa, OK: 13°-Tied and Wichita Falls, TX: 22°-Tied.
While the Midwest was shivering, upper level high pressure off the California coast and surface high pressure over the Great Basin provided an offshore flow across southern California resulting in some record high temperatures for the date including: Santa Ana, CA: 88°, Riverside, CA: 88°, Downtown Los Angeles, CA: 88°, Los Angeles (LAX), CA: 86°, San Diego, CA: 85° and Big Bear Lake, CA: 64°.
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1967
A record November snowstorm occurred in the Mid-Atlantic as 11.4 inches at Dulles Airport outside of D.C, 8.4 inches at Baltimore-Washington International Airport and 6.9 inches fell at Washington D.C.’s National Airport,. Most of the snowfall fell within 12 hours. Philadelphia, PA received 4.9 inches. This is one of their earliest snow storms that produced 4 or more inches of snow.
1970
High winds blasted the Colorado Rockies into the eastern Plains. A wind gust of 112 mph was recorded at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and 96 mph at the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, CO. Downtown Boulder recorded a gust to 76 mph. The high winds caused widespread property damage; including roofs, signs, trees and power lines. Blowing dust reduced visibility to near zero across most of eastern Colorado. Several mobile homes, campers and semis were blown off the highway north of Denver.
1976
One of the coldest Novembers on record ended with a blast of arctic air that dropped low temperatures well below zero across the northern Plains to below freezing all the way to the Gulf Coast. Locations reporting their all-time November record lows included: Jump River, WI: -31°, Medford, WI: -19° and Necedah, WI: -19°.
Other locations reporting record lows for the date included: Dubuque, IA: -9°, Green Bay, WI: -8°, Moline, IL: -4°, Marquette, MI: -2°, Cincinnati, OH: 1°-Tied, Youngstown, OH: 1°-Tied, Binghamton, NY: 3°, Cleveland, OH: 3°, Topeka, KS: 4°-Tied, Albuquerque, NM: 5°, Syracuse, NY: 5°, Springfield, MO: 6°, Albany, NY: 8°-Tied, El Paso, TX: 9°, Bristol, TN: 10°, Oak Ridge, TN: 10°, Yakima, WA: 10°, Tupelo, MS: 11°, Sterling (Dulles Airport), VA: 11°, Atlantic City, NJ: 13°, Oklahoma City, OK: 13°, Birmingham, AL: 15°, Newark, NJ: 16°, Meridian, MS: 16°, Jackson, MS: 17°, New York (LaGuardia Airport), NY: 18°, New York (Kennedy Airport), NY: 19°, Houston, TX: 19°, Shreveport, LA: 20°, Austin (Bergstrom), TX: 20°, Midland-Odessa, TX: 20°, San Angelo, TX: 20°, Baton Rouge, LA: 21°, Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX: 22°, San Antonio, TX: 22°, Wallops Island, VA: 22°, Lake Charles, LA: 23°, Quillayute, WA: 23°, Mobile, AL: 24°-Tied, Pensacola, FL: 25°-Tied, Astoria, OR: 27° and New Orleans, LA: 29°.
MacLeod Harbor, AK reported a precipitation total for November of 70.99 inches, which established a state record for any month of the year.
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1981
A major winter storm rocked eastern sections of South Dakota and northern Iowa through December 1st. The storm began as rain and then changed to freezing rain and sleet before becoming all snow. Winds gusted to over 50 mph producing blizzard conditions. Snow accumulations in southeast South Dakota were generally 8 to 12 inches with 4 to 8 inches across northwest Iowa. In portions of north central Iowa a heavy build-up of ice from the freezing rain combined with strong winds causing power lines to bounce 4 to 6 feet snapping lines and breaking insulators resulting in numerous power outages
This was the driest November at Washington D.C.’s National Airport as only 0.29 inches was reported. Dulles Airport reported just 0.24 inches.
1982
A big storm that started on this day and ended on December 1st brought widespread record rains and strong winds that knocked out power to 1.6 million homes across parts of southern California. 1.96 inches of rain fell at Los Angeles, a daily record. Los Angeles International Airport recorded a wind gust of 60 mph.
1985
Freezing rain and thunder-snow affected many portions of Oklahoma. Winter storm warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings, and tornado watches were all issued for portions of southern Oklahoma, with golf ball size hail reported in Duncan at a temperature of 33°. This day was also known as the day of the Ice Bowl, as the Oklahoma Sooners and Oklahoma State University played each other in Stillwater, on a virtual skating rink at Lewis Field. Further north 5 to 12 inches of snow fell across parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Local amounts included: Ontario, WI: 11 inches, Hokah, MN: 8 inches and Austin, MN: 6 inches.
Behind the storm high pressure and a dip in the jet stream brought record cold from the Plains to the Pacific Northwest. Record lows included: Great Falls, MT: -22°, Casper, WY: -17°, Billings, MT: -14°, Spokane, WA: -8°, Rapid City, SD: -6°, North Platte, NE: -5°: Tied, Goodland, KS: -3°, Lewiston, ID: 0°, Olympia, WA: 9°, Yakima, WA: 10°-Tied, Amarillo, TX: 11°, Eugene, OR: 16°, Salem, OR: 17°-Tied, Seattle, WA: 21°, Portland, OR: 22°-Tied, Astoria, OR: 24° and Eureka, CA: 34°-Tied.
1988
Low pressure producing snow across the Upper Great Lakes Region pushed the precipitation total for the month at Marquette, MI past their previous November record of 7.67 inches. 6 inches of snow fell across parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Santa Ana winds across southern California gusted to 75 mph at Laguna Peak. A few locations reported record high temperatures for the date including: Escondido, CA: 86°, Eureka, CA: 72° and Redding, CA: 72°.
121 tornadoes occurred in the U.S. for the month to set a new all-time November record for the number of tornadoes until 1992.
1989
Squalls produced heavy snow in the Lower Great Lakes Region, with 15 inches reported at Chaffee and Barnes Corners, NY. A few locations across the east reported record low temperatures for the date including: Caribou, ME: -5°, Islip, NY: 20°, Wallops Island, VA: 20° and Jackson, KY: 24°.
Tropical Storm Karen drenched parts of Cuba with heavy rain. Punta Del Este reported 14 inches of rain in 24 hours.
1991
The total snowfall for Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota for this month was 46.9 inches, making November 1991 the snowiest November on record. The old record was 30.4 inches set in 1983. The 46.9 inches for the month broke an even bigger record as this total was the greatest monthly snowfall of any month. The old all-time monthly snowfall record was 46.4 inches for January 1982. To put this in perspective, the total snowfall for the season so far, since October, was 55.1 inches. The normal total for the entire winter season is 49.2 inches.
1992
The 1988 record didn't last long as 146 tornadoes were reported across the U.S. to set a new November record.
1996
A winter storm dumped 4 to 10 inches of snow over northwest Oklahoma. The next day, skies were sunny, and temperatures across most of the state warmed up into the lower 50s. However, temperatures across the snow covered areas only warmed into the upper 30s. Butler reached 52, while 27 miles to the northwest, Putnam struggled to reach 39. This is a typical example of how the effects of snow cover can result in drastic temperature differences over short distances.
The month of November ended with an amazing 18.79 inches of rain at Honolulu International Airport in Hawaii, which is the third wettest month in history there, and the wettest November ever. The normal is just 3 inches. Airport data dates back to 1946, but downtown data, which correlates well to the airport, goes back to 1874. Only February 1904 with 23.50 inches and March 1951 with 20.79 inches were wetter. Amounts from other parts of Oahu were near 30 inches, even in some of the normally drier locations around the western half of the island.
Hurricane season officially closed today with 13 named storms, 9 of which were hurricanes. 6 of the hurricanes grew into major hurricanes. The 1996 was the second year in a row with higher than normal activity in the Atlantic and ranked in the top ten of the most active Atlantic Hurricane Seasons ever. There were more major hurricanes in 1996 than in 1995. 139 people lost their lives and damage in the U.S. alone was over $3.5 Billion.
1997
The 1997 Atlantic Hurricane Season will be remembered for its lack of tropical cyclone activity. After the record setting years of 1995 and 1996, a very strong El Nino suppressed development over the Atlantic. Only 7 tropical storms formed and only 4 of those became hurricanes. Some other notable occurrences from the 1997 Season:.No tropical storms or hurricanes occurred in August for the first time since 1961. Only one named storm occurred during the August-September time frame, the first time since 1929, Only Erika reached category 3. Only Danny and Erika lasted more than 5 days.
1999
The 1999 North Atlantic Hurricane season brought to a close an unprecedented 5 year stretch of 41 hurricanes and 20 major hurricanes, the most in any 5 year period since records began in 1886. The 1999 season was above normal in terms of the number of named storms (12), hurricanes (8) and major hurricanes (5). All 5 major hurricanes achieved Category 4 status, the first time there have ever been 5 Category 4 storms in one year.
An upper level ridge brought record high temperatures to parts of the Rockies including: Sheridan, WY: 71° (broke previous record by 10 degrees), Joliet, MT: 70°, Livingston, MT: 68°, Columbus,. MT: 67°, Billings, MT: 65°, Elko, NV: 64°-Tied, Great Falls, MT: 63°, Helena, MT: 63°, Casper, WY: 63°, Lander, WY: 63° and Pocatello, ID: 62°.
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2001
Buffalo, NY closed the month of November without any snow falling during the month. This marked the first time in 122 years of weather records that no snow had fallen at all in the month of November. Buffalo averages over 10 inches of snow in November and had recorded over 46 inches in November 2000.
Central Park in New York City recorded its warmest November on record. The average temperature for the month was 52.7°. The old record was 52.5° set in 1979.
Rochester, MN received 0.4 inches of snow. This was the latest first occurrence of measurable snow in Rochester.
2002
The United States' long run of luck continued with just one of the hurricanes making landfall in the U.S. during the 2002 Hurricane Season. October's Hurricane Lili struck Louisiana as a Category 2 storm. Eight of the 13 storms affected the U.S., but Lili was the only hurricane. Nine fatalities and $900 million in damage resulted from the U.S. storms. During the 8 year period between 1995 and 2002, only 4 of 62 Atlantic Hurricanes made landfall in the U.S.
2005
The official 2005 hurricane season ended with the emergence of Tropical Storm Epsilon, the 26th named storm of the busiest hurricane season on record. Epsilon threatened Bermuda with dangerous surf.
November 2005 was a historic month for Oklahoma City, OK and Wichita Falls, TX. Average temperatures were about 8 degrees above normal for both cities. Both cities had also tied for the driest November on record. No precipitation occurred at all in Wichita Falls, which had only occurred four times before since 1897. Only a trace of precipitation was measured in Oklahoma City, which had only occurred twice since 1897.
2006
Widespread freezing rain and sleet affected many locations in central Illinois west of I-57, changing to snow overnight and into the morning of December 1st. Eleven counties in central Illinois reported ice ranging from a quarter to two inches thick, with the thickest ice around Decatur, Taylorville, Clinton and Mt. Pulaski. Eight counties reported heavy sleet ranging in depth from a half to 2.2 inches. The heaviest snow occurred along and west of the Illinois River, where snow amounts were 8 to 18 inches. Areas east of the Illinois River, especially along the I-55 corridor, had snow amounts ranging from 3 to 8 inches on top of the ice and sleet.
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