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.
posted by Meredith at 8:24 AM
4 Comments:
Can't believe Christmas is only a
month and half away with this warm
weather.
I prefer this than snow.
9:04 AM
JC,
JUST A QUICK QUESTION FOR YOU...WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE RECENT NAMING OF TS GAMMA??? IS THERE A EDUCATED GUESS ABOUT THE CAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF NAMED STORMS THAT WE HAVE HAD THIS HURRICANE SEASON??? AND SINCE TROPICAL STORMS SEASONS CAN BE CYCLILCAL, DO YOU THINK THAT NEXT YEAR COULD BE WORSE...AND DO YOU THINK THAT TS's/HURRICANES WILL GET MORE MEDIA COVERAGE FROM NOW ON...OR WILL IT BE ONLY RESERVED FOR MASS DESTRUCTION STORMS LIKE KATRINA AND WILAM...JUST WONDERING YOUR 2CENTS ON THE ISSUE...FREEZING MY TAIL OFF IN TULSA...PIP
9:01 PM
It was truly hard to believe that today was Thanksgiving. It is strange even in Texas to have weather this warm in late November. It is nice, but it really does make it difficult to get into the Holiday spirit.
8:23 PM
Thanks for checking the blog out, Pip. Hope Tulsa is treating you well. I doubt anything (we can put our finger on) can be attributed to this prolific hurricane season. Its just a mountain in a history of peaks and valleys in the last 80+ years. I really dont think we can predict the coming season based on this year's numbers, though the season predictors have done a very good job. As far as media coverage goes, I've always wondered why there's tons of national media coverage prior to landfall of a tropical storm, yet the anticipation of a tornado outbreak here in the plains rarely is headline news. That's a head scratcher. I'm confident that may change in the next 5 years thanks to efforts by the Storm Prediction Center. Thanks Pip.
John
1:57 PM
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