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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
930 PM EST WED DEC 1 2010
...BELOW NORMAL RAINFALL AND SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN NORMAL
TEMPERATURES FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA DURING NOVEMBER 2010...
THE THIRD AND FINAL CLIMATOLOGICAL MONTH OF AUTUMN SAW BELOW NORMAL
RAINFALL IN MOST AREAS AND WAS THE SECOND MONTH IN A ROW IN WHICH
MONTHLY TEMPERATURES WERE SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL.
.TEMPERATURES...
TEMPERATURES OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA WERE SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL
OVERALL FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER. A STRONG COLD FRONT PASSED
THROUGH THE AREA DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF THE MONTH...BEGINNING A
FOUR DAY STRETCH OF WELL BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES DURING WHICH
RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE WERE BROKEN AT DAYTONA BEACH AND VERO BEACH
AND RECORD COOL HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE BROKEN AT DAYTONA BEACH...
MELBOURNE...AND ORLANDO. MORE MODERATELY BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES
CONTINUED FOR ANOTHER WEEK AFTER THE RECORD COLD WEATHER. ONSHORE
FLOW CAUSED ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES FOR THE LAST 10 DAYS OF
NOVEMBER OVER EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. BOTH MELBOURNE AND VERO BEACH
BROKE HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS ON NOVEMBER 16 WHILE THE AREA WAS IN
THE WARM SECTOR OF A MID-LATITUDE CYCLONE. DAYTONA BEACH RECORDED A
NEW WARM LOW TEMPERATURE RECORD ON NOVEMBER 29 UNDER SIMILAR
CONDITIONS.
THE OVERALL MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE VALUES FOR THE FOUR MAIN
CLIMATE SITES ACROSS EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ARE AS FOLLOWS:
-DAYTONA BEACH HAD AN AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE OF 65.6 DEGREES
FAHRENHEIT WHICH WAS 1.4 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.
-ORLANDO HAD AN AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE OF 67.7 DEGREES
FAHRENHEIT WHICH WAS 1.1 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.
-MELBOURNE HAD AN AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE OF 68.6 DEGREES
FAHRENHEIT WHICH WAS 0.6 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.
-VERO BEACH HAD AN AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE OF 69.5 DEGREES
FAHRENHEIT WHICH WAS 1.0 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.
.RAINFALL...
THE COLD FRONTS THAT PASSED THROUGH DURING NOVEMBER PROVIDED ONLY
LIMITED RAINFALL TO MUCH OF THE AREA. NEARLY ALL OF THE REPORTING
SITES LOGGED BELOW NORMAL RAINFALL FOR THE MONTH. HOWEVER...ONE
EXCEPTION WAS THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (MLB) WHERE
RAINFALL WAS ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE MONTH. THIS WAS PRIMARILY THE
RESULT OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1.47 INCHES ON THE 4TH
AND 1.05 ON THE 29TH IN ASSOCIATION WITH PASSING FRONTS. THIS WAS
THE FIRST ABOVE NORMAL MONTHLY RAINFALL TOTAL FOR MELBOURNE SINCE
APRIL OF THIS YEAR...WHICH WAS 0.05 ABOVE NORMAL.
THE STREAK OF MEASURABLE RAIN-FREE DAYS THAT WERE STILL ONGOING AT
THE END OF OCTOBER CONTINUED INTO EARLY NOVEMBER AT THE FOLLOWING
SITES:
-ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REPORTED MEASURABLE RAINFALL OF 0.73
ON NOVEMBER 2. THIS ENDED A 34-DAY DRY STREAK, WHICH WAS IT'S 4TH
LONGEST RAIN-FREE STRETCH.
-MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ENDED A 34-DAY RAIN-FREE STREAK ON
NOVEMBER 2 WHEN 0.07 INCH FELL. THIS TIED AS THE 5TH LONGEST DRY
STREAK WHICH LAST OCCURRED ENDING DECEMBER 27 IN 1961.
BELOW IS A LIST OF OBSERVED PRECIPITATION TOTALS AND RAINFALL
STATISTICS FOR SELECT SITES ACROSS EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FOR NOVEMBER
2010:
STATION NOV 2010 30 YEAR DEPARTURE PERCENT OF
RAINFALL NORMAL FROM NORMAL NORMAL
DAYTONA BEACH 0.95" 3.03" -2.08" 31%
(DAB)
ORLANDO 1.68" 2.32" -0.64" 72%
(MCO)
MELBOURNE 3.43" 3.12" +0.31" 110%
(MLB)
VERO BEACH 2.43" 3.04" -0.61" 80%
(VRB)
CLERMONT 1.67" 2.40" -0.73" 70%
(CLRF1)
DELAND 1.74" 2.72" -0.98" 64%
(DELF1)
SANFORD 1.37" 2.96" -1.59" 46%
(SFNF1)
TITUSVILLE 1.71" 3.45" -1.74" 50%
(TITF1)
FORT PIERCE 1.38" 3.50" -2.12" 39%
(FPCF1)
STUART 2.29" 4.23" -1.94" 54%
(STRF1)
FOR MORE LOCAL CLIMATE INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB PAGE AT
HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MELBOURNE AND CLICK ON THE "LOCAL" LINK UNDER THE
CLIMATE SUBSECTION ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE PAGE.
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