Ithaca Climate Summary for November 1999

Temperature

• With a monthly average temperature of 43.7 degrees, the month of November 1999 averaged 4.5 degrees warmer than normal.
• This was seventh warmer-than-normal month so far this year.
• This was the 5th warmest November since records began in 1873 and the warmest since 1975.
• The warmest temperature of the month was 70 degrees on the 9th.
• The coldest temperature of the month was 21 degrees on the 17th.

Precipitation

• November precipitation totalled 2.77 inches, which represented 90% of normal.
• Rainfall reported on the 26th-27th accounted for 1.55 inches of the monthly total.
• This month was 1.52 inches wetter than November 1998, but was otherwise the driest November since 1990.
• Eight of eleven months have been drier than normal this year.
• The year-to-date precipitation total at the end of the month was 28.52 inches, which was 4.31 inches below normal.

Snowfall

• The 1999-2000 snow season got started in November with a total of 4.1 inches of snow from two events.
• This month¹s snowfall was 1.3 inches below the monthly normal.
• Last year there was no snow through the end of November.