Weather Extremes

For the week of Nov. 4 through 10, there were 110 weather records tied or broken. Most of the extremes were warm. There were 67 high temperature records and 27 low maximum extremes. The rest were low temperature and precipitation records.

Most of the high extremes were observed in the West, but there were a small number of warm records in the central and southern Great Plains. On Nov. 4, it was a very warm 82 degrees in Pueblo, Colo. On Nov. 5 in Texas, the thermometer hit 90 degrees in Abilene and 91 in San Angelo.

Phoenix broke high temperature records Nov. 5-8. The warmest reading was 94 on Nov. 6.

Although these readings were not as warm, on Nov. 4 Yakima reported a record 69 degrees with a 66 observed at Wenatchee.

On Nov. 6, Vichy-Rolla, Mo., dropped to 20 degrees. Normally mild Florida reported a record low of 34 degrees in Apalachicola on Nov. 8th.

Five rainfall records were reported in the Northeast last week. More than an inch of rain (1.09) was a new record set in Montpelier, Vt., on Nov. 6.