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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...NOVEMBER CLIMATIC SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1105 AM EST WED DEC 1 2004
...NOVEMBER WAS WARMER AND WETTER THAN NORMAL AT INDIANAPOLIS...
NOVEMBER BEGAN WET AND ENDED WET AT INDIANAPOLIS. OVER ONE AND A
HALF INCHES OF PRECIPITATION FELL DURING THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF THE
MONTH AND MORE THAN 2 INCHES DURING THE LAST WEEK. THE 2ND WAS THE
WETTEST DAY WITH 1.51 INCHES AND THE 24TH WAS THE SECOND WETTEST
WITH 1.13 INCHES.
TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH WAS 5.14 INCHES...OR 1.53 ABOVE
NORMAL...MAKING IT THE WETTEST NOVEMBER SINCE 1996. THE WETTEST
NOVEMBER ON RECORD AT INDIANAPOLIS WAS IN 1881 WITH A TOTAL OF 9.35
INCHES...AND THE DRIEST OCCURRED IN 1904 WITH ONLY .11 OF AN INCH.
THIS NOVEMBER WAS THE 8TH MONTH THIS YEAR WITH ABOVE NORMAL
PRECIPITATION.
THE FIRST SNOWFALL OF THE SEASON CAME ON THE 24TH WHEN A TRACE WAS
RECORDED. THAT WAS FOLLOWED BY .1 OF AN INCH OF SNOWFALL ON
THANKSGIVING DAY WHICH WAS THE MONTHLY SNOWFALL TOTAL.
THE SNOWIEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD AT INDIANAPOLIS WAS IN 1932
WHEN 9.8 INCHES WAS RECORDED. THERE HAVE BEEN 5 NOVEMBERS WHEN SNOW
DID NOT FALL...AND NUMEROUS OTHERS WHEN ONLY A TRACE WAS
RECORDED. OF THE 5 NOVEMBERS WITH NO SNOW AT ALL...4 OCCURRED DURING
THE 1990S...WITH THE LAST BEING 1999.
THIS NOVEMBER WAS 10TH WARMEST OF RECORD. INTERESTINGLY...THE 9TH
WARMEST OCCURRED LAST YEAR. THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE OF 46.8
WAS 3.9 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL...MAKING IT THE 7TH MONTH THIS YEAR
WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE ABOVE NORMAL.
AT INDIANAPOLIS THE WARMEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD WAS IN 1931 WHEN THE
AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE WAS 51.7 DEGREES. THE COOLEST NOVEMBER
ON RECORD WAS IN 1880 WITH A MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 31.1
DEGREES.
THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE DURING THE MONTH WAS 66 DEGREES ON THE 2ND
WHILE THE LOWEST WAS 30 ON THE 25TH. DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURES
REGISTERED ABOVE NORMAL ON 15 OF THE LAST 16 DAYS HELPING TO
BOOST THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE.
THE PEAK WIND FOR THE MONTH OCCURRED ON THE 24TH WHEN A GUST OF 36
MPH FROM THE NORTHEAST WAS RECORDED AT THE INDIANAPOLIS AIRPORT. THE
ONLY DAY WITH THUNDER ALSO OCCURRED THIS DAY.
TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION RECORDS AT INDIANAPOLIS BEGAN IN
1871...SNOWFALL RECORDS STARTED IN 1884.
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PBG/APS/MS/CET
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