Monthly Climatological Summary Norman 3SE, Cleveland Co., OK (Lat 35^10'57"N, Lon 97^25'27"W, elev 1130) November 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Temperature Precipitation Snow AM PM Max Min Water Snow Depth Wx Wx ------------------------------------------------------------------ 01 42.6 39.7 .03 0.0 0 -SHRA OVC 02 45.7 38.5 .52 0.0 0 -RA RA 03 52.9 35.8 .02 0.0 0 -DZ FG SCT 04 51.4 32.4 .05 0.0 0 BKN -RA 05 55.8 40.6 .00 0.0 0 OVC SCT 06 64.4 33.1 .00 0.0 0 SKC SKC 07 71.1 37.6 .00 0.0 0 SKC FEW 08 73.8 47.5 .00 0.0 0 SKC SCT 09 81.1 57.0 .00 0.0 0 SCT SKC 10 64.6 41.7 .00 0.0 0 BKN BKN 11 61.3 39.4 .00 0.0 0 BKN BKN 12 60.8 37.8 .03 0.0 0 -RA FEW 13 64.6 37.6 .00 0.0 0 SCT SCT 14 61.3 45.1 .00 0.0 0 SCT OVC 15 55.6 37.8 .00 0.0 0 BKN SCT 16 58.3 33.8 .00 0.0 0 SKC SCT 17 64.4 37.2 .00 0.0 0 SCT BKN 18 66.4 38.8 .00 0.0 0 BKN SKC 19 65.1 32.0 .00 0.0 0 SCT BKN 20 65.5 36.1 .00 0.0 0 BKN SKC 21 70.5 42.3 .00 0.0 0 SCT SCT 22 58.1 35.4 .00 0.0 0 SKC FEW 23 69.4 40.8 .00 0.0 0 SKC FEW 24 63.0 37.0 .00 0.0 0 BKN OVC 25 41.7 29.1 .00 0.0 0 OVC BKN 26 41.9 28.8 .00 0.0 0 SCT BKN 27 42.6 22.1 .00 0.0 0 SCT SCT 28 54.9 26.2 .00 0.0 0 SCT SKC 29 63.0 35.4 .00 0.0 0 BKN OVC 30 50.9 30.6 .00 0.0 0 BKN BKN KEY TO AM/PM WX: SKC - sky clear, FEW - few clouds, SCT - partly cloudy, BKN - mostly cloudy, OVC - overcast, DZ - drizzle, RA - rain, SHRA - rain shower, FG - fog. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Means and Totals for November 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Average Maximum Temperature: 59.4 Average Minimum Temperature: 36.9 Mean Temperature: 48.2 Maximum Temperature: 81.1 (11-09-02) Minimum Temperature: 22.1 (11-27-02) Days with max temperature 90.0F+: 0 Year: 66 Days with max temperature <32.0F: 0 Year: 4 Days with min temperature <32.0F: 6 Year: 52 Days with min temperature <0.0F: 0 Year: 0 Precipitation: .65 Year: 30.25 Greatest one-day precipitation: .52 (11-02-02) Snowfall: 0.0 Year: 2.4 Greatest one-day snowfall: 0.0 Maximum snow depth at midnight: 0 Days with measureable pcpn: 5 Year: 82 Days with pcpn 1.00"+: 0 Year: 10 Days with measureable snowfall: 0 Year: 3 Days with snowfall 1"+: 0 Year: 1 Days with glaze ice: 0 Year: 2 Days with damaging wind: 0 Year: 4 Days with hail: 0 Year: 1 Days with thunderstorms: 0 Year: 41 Days with fog: 1 Year: 16
NOTICE: All temperatures are in degrees Fahrenheit and all precipitation values in inches. Snowfall totals denoted by an asterisk indicate hail.
Summary....The beginning of Nov 2002 saw a continuation of the chilly, damp, overcast weather which had persisted in central Oklahoma since the third week of October. Beginning the 5th, the weather abruptly turned dry, and stayed that way for the rest of the month. The .03 inch of rain that fell on the 12th was the only occurrence of precipitation here after the 4th. Temperatures were a bit below average for the month, in part due to abnormally cool weather at the beginning and the end of the month. Some brief spells of warm weather occurred around the 7th-9th and the 21st. The pressure fell to 994 millibars on the 9th, which was the lowest pressure recorded here since Nov 23, 2001. Not coincidentally, each occurrence was followed by a major tornado outbreak in the southern and eastern United States the following day.
Turlock CA finally broke its 170 day rainless streak in November, and did it in spectacular fashion. A grand total of 2.30 inches of rain fell on Nov 7-8 in Turlock, which was the first measurable rainfall there since May 20. My old neighborhood basically turned into a lake during the storm, and pictures of the flooding in this neighborhood were featured in the Nov 9 edition of The Modesto Bee. Aside from another .05 inch on the 10th, no additional precipitation occurred the rest of the month, so the total for the month and the season was 2.35 inches at month's end.