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Last month just missed being the 10th coldest on record
YOUNGSTOWN
Last month saw some drastic temperature shifts — five days in which it was more than 60 degrees and six days in which it dropped below 20 degrees — in the Mahoning Valley.
Also, there were 21 days in which the average temperature was below normal for this area.
Despite that, it was only 0.1 degree away from being the 10th-coldest November on record for the region.
The average temperature was 37.1 degrees last month. The 10th-coldest November was 1955 in which the region’s average temperature was 37 degrees.
Last month would have made the top 10 if the average temperature wasn’t an unseasonably high 55 degrees Sunday.
“There was quite a bit of a difference to the weather pattern,” said Martin Thompson, a hydrometeorological technician with the National Weather Service in Cleveland. “November can be a transitional month for weather.”
The high for last month was 68 degrees Nov. 11 and the low was 9 degrees Nov. 19 — the latter a record low for that day in the Valley.
While the area didn’t get a temperature record, last month was No. 8 overall in snowfall accumulation with 11.6 inches.
The record for November was 30.6 inches in 1951, followed by 20.1 in 1971, and 17.3 in 2008.
The fourth- through seventh-largest accumulations range from 12.9 to 12.2 inches.
Of the 11.6 inches that fell last month, 4.4 inches were recorded Nov. 17, followed by 2.1 inches Thursday.
The National Weather Service measures weather for the Mahoning Valley at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna with weather records dating to 1897.
The NWS expects this month to have above-normal temperatures, Thompson said. The average temperature in the area in December is 30.3 degrees.
The service hasn’t been able to determine if there will be more or less snow than average this month, Thompson said. The average snowfall amount in December in the Valley is 15 inches.