Many of the records tied or broken this week date back to 1911! About 120 daily record lows were reported by National Weather Service offices on Nov. 12. Temperatures plunged into the single digits as far south as the Texas Panhandle, with some subzero lows in parts of the Northern Plains and upper Midwest.
Among the subzero lows setting daily records:
-Hibbing, Minnesota: Minus 13 degrees
-Norfolk, Nebraska: Minus 7 degrees
-Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Minus 6 degrees
-Des Moines, Iowa: Minus 1 degree
It was only the fifth time Des Moines had dipped below zero during the first half of November in records since 1878.
Indianapolis plunged to 8 degrees, the earliest in the fall it had ever done so in records dating to 1871. It was also the coldest so early in the fall on record in Watertown, New York, bottoming out at 8 degrees. In south Texas after heat index values in the 90's Monday it was followed by a record low of 38 in McAllen. While Tuesday's high temperatures in the Lower Rio Grande Valley were in the upper 40s just after midnight, daytime temperatures in the 30s were thought to be the coldest so early in the fall, there. Chicago only topped out at 17 degrees Tuesday afternoon, a record-cold high for the date, smashing the previous record of 28 degrees from 1995. It is one of the Coldest November's in Chicago in over 100 years. Chicago bottomed out at 7 Tuesday morning and 11 Wednesday Morning. The high in St. Louis Tuesday afternoon was only 21 degrees, also smashing its previous record-cold high for the date of 34 degrees from 1940. Highs in the mid-20s Tuesday afternoon in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Paducah, Kentucky, were their record-earliest in season such occurrences of subfreezing high temperatures – something more typical in mid-December – according to the National Weather Service. Nashville, Tennessee, failed to rise out of the 20s Tuesday, their record earliest highs in the 20's ever. Snow fell as far south as Nashville Tennessee, Knoxville Tennessee, Gatlinburg Tennessee, and Blue Ridge Georgia. De Graff, Ohio, about 40 miles north-northeast of Dayton, plunged to minus 1 degree. Indianapolis set a daily record low just after midnight, plunging into the single digits. Single-digit temperatures stretched as far south as Clarksville, Tennessee, Wednesday morning. Memphis, Tennessee,
had its coldest low temperature so early in fall, plunging into the upper teens.
Daily record lows were also tied or set Wednesday morning in Cincinnati (10 degrees), Pittsburgh (12 degrees), Baltimore (22 degrees), New York's Central Park (23 degrees) and Philadelphia (23 degrees). Atlanta was 24 Wednesday morning very close to the record low of 21, Carrollton Georgia was 18, Blairsville Georgia 14, Birmingham Alabama was 19, Hamilton Alabama was 13. Mobile, Birmingham, Anniston, Macon Georgia, Tuscaloosa and surrounding areas all broke records. Freezing temperatures were recorded along parts of the Gulf Coast, including Houston, New Orleans and Panama City, Florida. The sharp contrast of cold air flowing over the warm nearshore Gulf waters produced plumes of sea smoke in Pensacola, Florida, Wednesday morning, Panama City bottomed out at 28 and Apalachicola bottomed out at 32.
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