November 2018 Observations and Discussion

[Tom]

My post was actually tongue-in-cheek. Every day about mid-month JB's daily vid was showing how the CFS was an utter FAIL, showing a torch Nov as late as 31-October! Thought you'd recognize my "sarc" post

Ahhh, yes...Gotcha bud, ya, now I see what your saying.  Sorry, I was not feeling well yesterday and my head was in the clouds.  The CFSv2 def didn't see the cold coming at all which makes me wonder what may happen in December.

[Niko]

Today marks the last day of tropical season.

[Niko]

Currently at 32F w cloudy skies.

 

Lotsa of rain coming for the weekend. Perhaps near an inch. It will be a cold rain w temps in the mid to upper 30s....UGH! Much milder air for Sunday w temps near 45-50F. That should feel nice!

[Niko]

@Jaster

 

Your snow will get washed away buddy...but no worries. Colder air arrives next week w LES for ya, NO?!

[Niko]

Falling ice from buildings in Chicago......

 

 

https://cbsloc.al/2BIm9Np

[OKwx2k4]

 

Interesting night. Tornadoes. :/

 

If weather folklore is right, should be a nice snow soon, regardless. Here's hoping for safety for everyone here tonight.

[OKwx2k4]

Big tornado.

[Stormy]

The snow pack here is down to a crusty 4" or so with a solid cover remaining. Some of it melted the last 2 days, but it had shrunk down a lot before then. My November total snowfall = 14.2" & total precip. this mo. is exactly 4.00". Precip. so far this year is 46.72" now. Our most recent snowstorm was one of the largest I've recorded (my records begin in 1990) & likely the largest in the shortest amount of time, ( from approx. 8:30am. till 4:00pm.) & it occurred in November! But an early start to winter doesn't mean the rest of the winter will be epic.

[Stormy]

Big tornado.

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Wow...is that near your area?

[jaster220]

In the mid-20s attm, but wow did we spike to a balmy 41F under rare sunshine this pm. And yes, 7 hrs above freezing did some snow cover damage as you can imagine with the ground having been warm when the snow fell. Nonetheless, the last evening/night looking like #winter here for a while I suppose. Been a fun ride November, sorry to say farewell

[OKwx2k4]

Wow...is that near your area?

Yeah. It got about 15 miles from me I think.

[westMJim]

Welcome to meteorological winter. Here is the unofficial  summary for the month of November 2018. It was a cold and snowy month all across western and central Michigan. At Grand Rapids the mean of 34.6° was the 10^th coldest November on record. The maximum for the month was a new record coldest at 52° the low for the month was 20° there was 14.4” of snow fall that is good for 17^th place. At Muskegon the mean for the month was 35.5° that is good for the 7^th coldest on record.  The highest reading was just 51° and that is good for a new record coldest maximum. Muskegon reported 12.5” of snow fall. At Kalamazoo the mean of 34.6° is good for the 5^th  coldest on record there. The warmest it got in Kzoo was just 54° and that is good for the 2^nd coldest on record there. And at Lansing the mean was 33.6° that is good for the 9^th coldest on record there. The warmest reading all month was 53° and that is good for the 2^nd coldest maximum in recorded history. They had 11.9” of snow fall that is good for 13^th place. Should be noted that records have been kept at Lansing since 1863.

[Tom]

A November to Remember for many of us in the heartland, esp when you look at how much real estate was under the grip of early Winter cold.  Parts of NE KS/W MO had their coldest November on record.

 

 

[OKwx2k4]

A November to Remember for many of us in the heartland, esp when you look at how much real estate was under the grip of early Winter cold. Parts of NE KS/W MO had their coldest November on record.

 

 

Thank you for sharing that. That was a ridiculously cold November. Anyone ready for "Decanbruary" weather?

[jaster220]

November finished here with 362% of normal snowfall, good for 3rd place all-time:

 

Top-5 for mby:

 

1) 16.2  1966

2) 16.0  1969

3) 15.2  2018

4) 14.8  1921

5) 13.5  1971

[Minny_Weather]

We limped our way into the Top 10 in terms of snowfall here. We got 7.2" over the month, which ties the amount we got in our lowest snow season on record, and is good for 9th all time in November.