Weather Word

Convergence

A process in which higher momentum air moves into lower momentum air.

November Heat

This string of very warm days is causing calendar confusion for me. Temperatures are warming well into the 80s every day, yet orange and yellow leaves are falling from sparsely leaved trees, the sun is setting before 6:00 and Holiday themes are becoming the focal point of area retailers. Oh well, the 80 degree heat will be gone by Thursday. This will all be a distant memory in a weeks time.

Here's something interesting. Did you know that in over one hundred years of keeping record temperatures in the city of Wichita Falls, the National Weather Service has never observed a temperature higher than 89 degrees in November(as of this writing). Anxious to see how close we get Tuesday. The hottest temperature observed in October is 102.