November Climate Summary for Minnesota
Mean November temperatures were considerably colder than normal. In fact for many Minnesota communities it was one of the coldest Novembers this century. Standard deviations for the monthly mean are typically 4 degrees F, and the negative temperature deviations for November of 1996 were commonly 2 to 2.5 times that value. Other cold Novembers have been 1985, 1959, 1955, 1911 and 1896. Note that the record coldest November for most Minnesota communities was either 1985 or 1896 depending on the length of their climate record.
Find listed below the mean temperature, departure from normal and historical ranking for the month of November at several Minnesota locations (all in degrees F).....
Location Mean Departure from Historical Rank
Temp Normal
Crookston 15.2 -10.5 3rd coldest
Warroad 15.4 -10.7 2nd coldest
Itasca St Pk 17.1 -9.2 3rd coldest
Alexandria 19.7 -9.7 4th coldest
Browns Valley 19.9 -10.0 2nd coldest
Canby 22.8 -9.0 2nd coldest
Fergus Falls 19.8 -8.7 4th coldest
Montevideo 20.6 -12.0 2nd coldest
Morris 19.8 -9.7 4th coldest
Hutchinson 22.8 -9.2 1st coldest
Willmar 21.0 -9.9 1st coldest
MSP Airport 25.3 -7.9 5th coldest
Lamberton 22.8 -9.6 2nd coldest
Pipestone 20.9 -10.0 3rd coldest
Redwood Falls 22.7 -10.7 2nd coldest
Worthington 22.4 -9.4 5th coldest
Waseca 24.2 -8.0 2nd coldest
Winnebago 23.9 -8.8 3rd coldest
Rochester 24.6 -8.0 5th coldest
Rosemount 26.0 -7.0 4th coldest
November of 1996 was also one of the wettest this century, with a good deal of both freezing rain and snowfall. Listed below are the monthly total precipitation, the departure from normal and the historical ranking for selected communities, each value is shown as inches.....
Location November Departure from Historical
Precip ('96) Normal Ranking
Duluth 5.28 +3.48 Wettest ever
Hutchinson 4.60 +3.20 2nd wettest
Cambridge 4.91 +3.46 2nd wettest
MSP airport 5.08 +3.53 3rd wettest
U of M St Paul 4.90 +3.49 Wettest ever
Grand Rapids 3.60 +2.32 4th wettest
Faribault 4.16 +2.57 5th wettest
Waseca 4.16 +2.44 5th wettest
Rochester 3.92 +2.31 5th wettest
Rosemount 4.94 +3.10 5th wettest
Caledonia 4.15 +2.09 6th wettest
Regulary produced monthly summaries of temperature and precipitation data are available from the Regularly Updated Climate Data section of this Web site.
Mark Seeley
Professor and Extension Climatologist
Department of Soil, Water, and Climate
University of Minnesota
St Paul, MN 55108
Ph. (612) 625-4724
FAX (612) 625-2208
E-Mail MSEELEY@SOILS.UMN.EDU
mcwg@soils.umn.edu
URL: http://climate.umn.edu/doc/journal/nov96.html
Last modified: December 2, 1996
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