...NOVEMBER WRAPS UP AN ABNORMALLY COOL AND DRY FALL...
THIS IS THE MONTHLY CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 2012 AND THE
SEASONAL CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR FALL 2012.
TEMPERATURE INFORMATION...
MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURES WERE BELOW NORMAL ACROSS THE ENTIRE NWS
JACKSON FORECAST AREA DURING NOVEMBER. MEAN TEMPERATURE DEPARTURES
AT AREA ASOS SITES RANGED FROM 2.1 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL AT
GREENVILLE TO 3.6 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL AT GREENWOOD. TEMPERATURES
WERE NEAR NORMAL TO BEGIN THE MONTH. THERE WAS A QUICK WARMUP ON THE
2ND AND 3RD... FOLLOWED BY A QUICK COOLDOWN AND A STRETCH OF BELOW
NORMAL TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE 9TH. THERE WAS ANOTHER BRIEF WARMUP
ON THE 10TH AND 11TH...FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER EXTENDED PERIOD OF BELOW
NORMAL TEMPERATURES FROM THE 12TH THROUGH THE 19TH. TEMPERATURES
RECOVERED TO ABOVE NORMAL FROM THE 20TH THROUGH THE 23RD. ANOTHER
COLD FRONT BROUGHT BELOW NORMAL READINGS ON THE 24TH AND 25TH. THEN
YET ANOTHER FRONT BROUGHT BELOW NORMAL READINGS AGAIN FROM THE 27TH
THROUGH THE 29TH. IT WAS THE 7TH COOLEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD AT
GREENWOOD.
BELOW ARE THE COOLEST NOVEMBERS FOR GREENWOOD...
1. 43.1 (1976)
2. 48.8 (1951)
3. 49.7 (1959)
49.7 (1950)
5. 50.1 (2002)
6. 50.6 (1979)
7. 50.7 (2012)
SEASONAL TEMPERATURES WERE BELOW NORMAL ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. THE
FALL 2012 TEMPERATURE DEPARTURES RANGED FROM 1.1 DEGREES BELOW
NORMAL AT GREENVILLE TO 2.2 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL AT GREENWOOD. AT
GREENWOOD IT WAS THE 5TH COOLEST FALL ON RECORD. THIS FALL TIED AS
THE 9TH COOLEST ON RECORD AT MERIDIAN.
COOLEST FALL TEMPERATURE FOR THE FOLLOWING SITES...
GREENWOOD MERIDIAN
1. 56.7 (1976) 1. 58.7 (1976)
2. 60.6 (1952) 2. 60.4 (1967)
3. 61.4 (1974) 3. 61.0 (1917)
61.4 (1967) 4. 61.3 (1952)
5. 62.2 (2012) 5. 61.5 (1901)
6. 62.4 (1975) 6. 61.8 (1891)
7. 62.5 (2011) 7. 62.2 (1889)
62.5 (1957) 8. 62.3 (1932)
9. 62.9 (2006) 9. 62.4 (2012)
10.63.0 (1979) 62.4 (1893)
THE ONE MONTH TEMPERATURE OUTLOOK FOR DECEMBER INDICATES GREATER
CHANCES FOR ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE ENTIRE NWS JACKSON
FORECAST AREA THAN FOR NEAR OR BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THE THREE
MONTH TEMPERATURE OUTLOOK FOR DECEMBER THROUGH FEBRUARY INDICATES
GREATER CHANCES FOR ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES THAN NEAR OR BELOW
NORMAL TEMPERATURES OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS
AND WEST MISSISSIPPI. ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA...
PREDICTABILITY IS LOW AND THUS THERE ARE EQUAL CHANCES FOR ABOVE
NORMAL...NORMAL...AND BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES.
PRECIPITATION INFORMATION...
FOR THE SECOND MONTH IN A ROW...PRECIPITATION WAS WELL BELOW NORMAL
ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. IT WAS DRIEST OVER PARTS OF THE ARKLAMISS
DELTA OF NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST
LOUISIANA...WHERE LESS THAN IN INCH OF RAIN FELL IN MANY AREAS. AT
LOCAL ASOS SITES...MONTHLY RAINFALL DEPARTURES RANGED FROM 1.83
INCHES BELOW NORMAL AT JACKSON TO 4.04 INCHES BELOW NORMAL AT
GREENVILLE. IT WAS THE 4TH DRIEST NOVEMBER AT GREENVILLE...THE 5TH
DRIEST NOVEMBER AT HATTIESBURG...AND THE 9TH DRIEST NOVEMBER AT
GREENWOOD.
BELOW ARE THE DRIEST NOVEMBERS FOR THE FOLLOWING SITES...
HATTIESBURG GREENVILLE GREENWOOD
1. 0.37 (1949) 1. 0.29 (1949) 1. 0.11 (1949)
2. 0.77 (1960) 2. 0.48 (1924) 2. 1.04 (1965)
3. 1.10 (1956) 3. 0.60 (1933) 3. 1.05 (1953)
4. 1.11 (1950) 4. 1.02 (2012) 4. 1.06 (2008)
5. 1.21 (2012) 5. 1.33 (1942) 5. 1.30 (1971)
6. 1.26 (2007) 6. 1.83 (2008) 1.30 (1966)
7. 1.34 (1981) 7. 1.88 (2009) 7. 1.76 (1958)
8. 1.40 (1985) 1.88 (1965) 1.76 (1955)
9. 1.71 (1969) 9. 1.90 (2007) 9. 1.81 (2012)
A DRY OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER LED TO BELOW NORMAL FALL PRECIPITATION
ACROSS THE AREA. SEASONAL PRECIPITATION DEPARTURES RANGED FROM 2.25
INCHES BELOW NORMAL AT GREENWOOD TO 5.30 INCHES BELOW NORMAL AT
VICKSBURG/TALLULAH.
THE LATEST U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR INDICATES ABNORMALLY DRY CONDITIONS
FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND THE
NORTHERN FRINGES OF BOLIVAR AND SUNFLOWER COUNTIES. OTHERWISE...NO
DROUGHT CONDITIONS EXIST ACROSS THE NWS JACKSON FORECAST AREA. THE
LATEST DROUGHT OUTLOOK INDICATES NO ADDITIONAL DROUGHT DEVELOPMENT
ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH FEBRUARY 2013.
THE ONE MONTH PRECIPITATION OUTLOOK FOR DECEMBER INDICATES LOW
PREDICTABILITY ACROSS THE NWS JACKSON FORECAST AREA. THUS THERE ARE
EQUAL CHANCES FOR ABOVE NORMAL...NORMAL...AND BELOW NORMAL
PRECIPITATION. THE THREE MONTH PRECIPITATION OUTLOOK FOR DECEMBER
THROUGH FEBRUARY INDICATES GREATER CHANCES FOR ABOVE NORMAL
PRECIPITATION THAN FOR NEAR OR BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION ALONG AND
NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20. ELSEWHERE....THERE ARE EQUAL CHANCES FOR
ABOVE NORMAL...NORMAL...AND BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION.
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EVENTS...
NO SEVERE OR UNUSUAL WEATHER CONDITIONS WERE REPORTED THROUGHOUT THE
MONTH. ON THE EVENING OF THE 6TH...THERE WERE A FEW REPORTS OF HAIL
UP TO PENNY SIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH A STORM THAT MOVED FROM AROUND
FLORA THROUGH RIDGELAND TO NEAR PELAHATCHIE. HOWEVER THE STORM DID
NOT REACH SEVERE THRESHOLDS.
NEWLY ESTABLISHED RECORDS...
DATE SITE RECORD TYPE NEW RECORD PREV RECORD(DATE)
2ND KTVR HIGH MAX TEMP 87 85(1956,1971,1998)
11TH KTVR HIGH MIN TEMP 60 58(1985,2007)
13TH KGWO LOW MIN TEMP 27(TIE) 27(1976)
NOTES...
ALL DATA ABOVE ARE PRELIMINARY AND HAVE NOT UNDERGONE FINAL QUALITY
CONTROL BY THE NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER (NCDC). THEREFORE...
THESE DATA ARE SUBJECT TO REVISION. FINAL AND CERTIFIED DATA CAN BE
ACCESSED AT THE NCDC WEBPAGE - HTTP://WWW.NCDC.NOAA.GOV (ALL LOWER
CASE).
TEMPERATURE/PRECIPITATION NORMALS ARE BASED ON THE 1981-2010
CLIMATOLOGICAL PERIOD. DATA ARE PROVIDED BY NCDC.
FOR ADDITIONAL LOCAL CLIMATE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT THE NWS
JACKSON CLIMATE ZONE AT:
HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/JAN/?N=CLIMATE_ZONE_STATION_LIST
(ALL LOWER-CASE)
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