November 2024 Weather Recap: Warm Start, Rainy Finish
November 2024 was 3.4 degrees above average (the sixth month this year that was three degrees or more warmer than average). The month started off well above average, as the first eight days were nine degrees warmer than the typical first week of November (high/low of 68°/52°). Then the middle twelve days of the month were three above average, and the last ten days were at seasonable levels. The average high was 4.2 degrees above average, the average low was +2.6.
The last day of the month, with an unseasonably cold high/low of 39°/30° (nine degrees below average), prevented the month from placing among the ten mildest Novembers, ending up as twelfth mildest (just a smidge behind Nov. 1902).
On 11/6 the high reached 80°, the first time since 1993 that a day in November reached the 80s. (And the high on 11/1 was 79°.) Besides these two Novembers, highs in the 80s have also occurred in Nov. 1974 and Nov. 1950 (which had two days that warm).
Just 0.18” of rain fell in the first 20 days of the month (last November saw even less rain in the first 20 days - 0.07"). Then 3.17” fell between 11/21 and 11/28, including 1.58” that fell on the 21st, which was a record amount for the date. And on the 28th, which was Thanksgiving Day, 0.86" was measured in Central Park, making this the rainiest Turkey Day since 2006.
November's total precipitation of 3.35" was slightly below average, but more than double the combined amount of September (1.58") and October (0.01").
When significant rain fell on 11/21, it ended a 52-day period in which just 0.19” of rain was measured in Central Park. Because of this extended dry spell a drought warning was issued a few days before 11/21's rainfall.
There were seven days with humidity of 25% or lower, the most of any November in the years since 2000. (October also had seven low-humidity days.) These readings were concentrated among the first seventeen days of the month.
Here are recaps of past Novembers:
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