Four temperature records fall
in warm and dry November

Four temperature records fell in the month of November for the City of Weyburn, which exited with one of the warmest and driest Novembers on record.

The new records were set on Nov. 7, 8, 12 and 20, with Nov. 7 the warmest day of the month at 24 balmy degrees above zero, according to the city's filtration plant where weather records have been kept since 1952. The record for that day was 16, set in 1964 and tied in 1978. The coolest temperature recorded in November was -13, recorded on Nov. 28.

The mercury reached 22.5 on Nov. 8, breaking the former record of 17 degrees set in 1962; we hit 22 on Nov. 12, breaking the former record of 20 set in 1981; and on Nov. 20 we reached 13.5 degrees, eclipsing the former record of 11 set in 1991.

The average high temperature in November was 8.4 degrees, far above the long-term average of 0.8; the average low temperature was -4.9, compared to the long-term average of -9.2; and the means temperature was 1.8, far exceeding the long-term average of -4.2. This month's means temperature is the only one that averaged above zero in the past decade.

Weyburn only received a paltry 0.4 millimetres of precipitation in November, compared to the long-term average of 13.9 mm.


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