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Northeast Regional Climate Center |
The Northeast was above normal in temperature for the fourth straight month. This month was quite warm, 4.8 degrees above normal for the region as a whole. The temperature of 44.0 degrees was enough to make it the third warmest November on record for the region. Individually the states didn't vary much from the region average - the temperature departures ranged from 3.3 to 5.9 degrees. The northern New England states were the coolest in the Northeast in both average temperature and temperature departure. These three were the only states below 40 degrees on the month and the only states less than 4 degrees above normal. The remainder of the New England states were only slightly warmer. The respective temperature departures for Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island were 4.0, 4.1, and 4.1 degrees. The rest of the Northeast was more than 4.1 degrees above normal. Warmest of these were New York and Pennsylvania which were both more than 5 degrees above normal. For Pennsylvania this November was the second warmest on record. This was the warmest November in the Northeast since 1948.
The dryness continued in the Northeast this November for the fifth month in a row. The region measured barely over half the normal amount of precipitation for the month. All 12 states were an inch or more below normal for the second straight month. Vermont was the least dry with a respectable 2.52 inches (68% of its state normal). Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware were all under an inch on the month, negative departures of well over 3 inches for Connecticut and Rhode Island. Delaware received only 0.68 inches of precipitation, second driest all-time, and only 0.19 inches above the record which has stood since 1917. This was the driest November since 1998 and the second driest since 1976.
Monthly Summary of State Temperature and Precipitation Averages.