Asheville has coldest November in 11 years

You're right if you thought November had more than the usual nip in the air.

A sharp drop in temperatures after a mild start made November 2008 the coldest on average since 1997, according to the National Weather Service.

“It looks like it's the coldest November we've had for Asheville in the last 11 years,” said Harry Gerapetritis, meteorologist for the weather service office in Greer, S.C. The average temperature was 43 degrees at the Asheville Regional Airport.

“The next coldest we had was in 1997, when the temperature was 42.3 degrees,” Gerapetritis said.

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Extreme Winter Pattern Setting Up

According to Accuweather meteorologist Brett Anderson Canada and the norther United States are in for some wild weather. He states,

The overall pattern setting up before our eyes throughout 2/3rds of Canada and the northern United States has mid-winter written all over it. Over the course of the next 7-10 days we are going to be dealing with several storms running up through the eastern U.S. and into Atlantic Canada, more widespread, heavy lake-effect snow, Alberta clippers, upslope snow in the eastern Canadian Rockies and to top it off.........some of the coldest air we have seen for December in many years, and not just one shot, but more likely two and three shots, with the core of the cold from the Canadian Prairies and down into the northern U.S. Plains, Midwest and Ontario, especially northwestern and central.

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With arctic spigot open, it feels like February

Chicago residents are experiencing a very cold November. According to this story,

The chilly weather extends the colder-than-normal pattern that has dominated for nearly a month. Temperatures since Nov. 8 have averaged 4.5 degrees below the long-term average—the chilliest such period in eight years (since 2000). It ranks 21st coldest of the past 139 years placing it among the chilliest 15 percent on record.

WHITEOUT: ARCTIC CONDITIONS WILL GET WORSE

ARCTIC conditions caused havoc across Britain yesterday as experts predicted the country will be plunged into the coldest winter for 25 years.

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November one of the coldest and wettest in Augusta history

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Heavy weekend rainfall across Georgia-Carolina has many thinking, 'what drought?'

This weekend's heavy rain combined with heavy rain about two weeks ago has made this November one of the wettest months of November ever recorded in Augusta.

But it wasn't just rain that made history this month. November 2008 will also go down in the record books as one of the coldest ever in Augusta.

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October was colder than normal in U.S.

The nation was colder than normal in October, while much of the rest of the world was much warmer than normal, according to figures released by the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

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It turns out, however, that the rest of the world was not warmer than usual as claimed by the National Climate Data Center. The temperature guru's at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies accidentally replicated the September temperatures for October for most of the stations in Russia, causing an enormous, but false jump in October temperatures. See the story here.

Record cold temperatures throughout the South

More Record Cold on the Way

AUGUSTA, Ga. - More record cold air is forecast this weekend. We expect a low temperature near 21 degrees Saturday morning and near 19 degrees Sunday morning. Records are as follows:

November 22, 20 degrees (2000) - Our forecast: 21
November 23, 21 degrees (1956) - Our forecast: 19

This cold air follows in the wake of record cold recorded Wednesday morning. Augusta Bush Field, the area's official weather observation location, dipped to 22 degrees Wednesday morning. This easily shattered the previous record low for the date of 25 degrees set back in 1959.

Record Low Set on Grandfather Mountain Wednesday

Unseasonably cold weather broke the record for the daily low temperature on Wednesday atop Grandfather Mountain.

The temperature dipped to eight degrees early in the morning breaking the previous daily low record for November 19th was 10 degrees set, and was set back in 1968.

Cold Wave Brings Record Low to Athens

The waves of cold, Canadian air washing over the eastern United States brought a record low to Athens this morning, breaking a low-temperature mark that stood for 117 years.

Another Record Low for Gainesville

Gainesville set another record for low temperatures early Thursday when the official thermometer at the airport hit 29 degrees. The previous low temperature record for this date was 30 degrees and was set in 1968.