Tuesday, November 1, 2011

November, the finest month!

November has the finest weather on St. Simons Island. We like winter, and we have it to look forward to. But sometimes it is too cold, although almost never very long. But November is a mild, dry month. The driest month of the year! And almost always mild. Sometimes warm or cool, but almost never hot or cold. Some Novembers stay below 80 and never reach 40.

Temperatures continue to fall steadily through November. November 1st starts the month with an average high of 73.0 and an average low of 56.9 By November 30 the average high has fallen to 66.6 and the average low to 49.8 Rainfall is light during November, and the majority of Novembers do not have a day receiving an inch of rainfall. Snow, sleet, or ice have never been recorded.

October was a cool and dry month. Our rainfall (again) was well below normal. We received 2.25", and were 2.21" below normal. Barely 50%. An improvement from the 1/3 of normal rainfall we received in September. But still. Rainfall so far this year has been 26.78" officially, and ended October 13.55" below normal.


On October 2nd, St. Simons Island tied its record low of 51. This record was also set in 1984.

On October 15th, St. Simons Island tied its record high of 86. This record was also set in 1972.

October 19 also saw our pressure fall to 29.44" / 997.0 mb. This was our second lowest pressure reading in the past 8 years when I started keeping records.

The technical weather discussion from the Jacksonville weather office can be read here.

St. Simons Island's official weather observations for the past 72 hours can be viewed here.

Date..............actual..............normal................departure.............notes


Nov 1...........48.9 / 64.9.......56.9 / 73.0............-8.0
Nov 2...........51.3 / 69.1.......56.5 / 72.7............-4.4
Nov 3...........54.7 / 73.8.......56.3 / 72.4............-0.1
Nov 4...........49.8 / 68.0.......56.1 / 72.2............-5.3...............0.03" rain
Nov 5...........51.4 / 58.6.......55.9 / 72.1............-9.0
Nov 6...........52.7 / 63.0.......55.7 / 71.9............-5.9
Nov 7...........59.0 / 70.3.......55.5 / 71.6...........+1.1
Nov 8...........60.1 / 70.5.......55.1 / 71.4...........+2.0
Nov 9...........54.0 / 72.1.......54.9 / 71.2.............0.0
Nov 10.........48.6 / 77.0.......54.6 / 70.9............+0.0
Nov 11.........39.4 / 64.0.......54.4 / 70.7...........-10.8...............37.6 degree drop
Nov 12.........37.8 / 64.4.......54.1 / 70.5...........-11.2
Nov 13.........49.5 / 73.0.......54.0 / 70.3............-0.9
Nov 14.........56.8 / 74.5.......53.7 / 70.2...........+3.7
Nov 15.........62.4 / 76.3.......53.4 / 70.0...........+7.6...............last day of late fall
Nov 16.........64.4 / 76.1.......53.0 / 69.7...........+8.6...............first day of early winter
Nov 17.........50.2 / 74.5.......52.7 / 69.4...........+1.3...............0.21" rain
Nov 18.........48.6 / 62.2.......52.3 / 69.1............-5.3
Nov 19.........53.6 / 69.4.......52.0 / 68.8...........+1.1
Nov 20.........59.9 / 76.3.......51.6 / 68.6...........+8.0
Nov 21.........62.1 / 77.0.......51.4 / 68.4...........+9.6
Nov 22.........60.1 / 77.0.......51.2 / 68.2...........+9.0...............0.01" rain
Nov 23.........55.9 / 74.5.......50.9 / 68.0...........+5.7...............0.56" rain
Nov 24.........50.2 / 63.1.......50.7 / 67.9............-2.6
Nov 25.........49.1 / 68.0.......50.4 / 67.6............-0.4
Nov 26.........59.4 / 72.1.......50.2 / 67.4...........+6.9
Nov 27.........63.5 / 73.2.......50.1 / 67.2...........+9.7
Nov 28.........52.2 / 74.5.......50.0 / 67.0...........+4.8...............0.28" rain....last day of early winter
Nov 29.........41.7 / 56.5.......49.9 / 66.8............-9.2...............first day of mid winter
Nov 30.........38.1 / 55.2.......49.8 / 66.6...........-11.5


Highs for 2011

40s...........4
50s.........22
60s.........44
70s.........81
80s.........109
90s.........73
100s.........1

Lows for 2011

20s..........4
30s.........17
40s.........33
50s.........79
60s.........61
70s.......131
80s...........9

Freezes.......6


8 day model forecast graphic:


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