Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — THiRTY-THREE NOVEMBERS. [ARTICLE]

THiRTY-THREE NOVEMBERS.

Tbe following data, covering a period of thirty-tb/ee years, have been compiled by the Indianapolis station of weather bnrean to show what the average November has been daring that time: Average temperature, 42; highest ternperatnre. for any November, 76, on November 1,1888; lowest temperature, 5 below zero, November 22,1880, The warmest November was in 1902, with an average temperature of 50, and tbe coldest was in 1880. with an average of 31* The average precipitation for tbe last thirty-three Novembers was 3.75 inches; the average number of days with ,01 of an inoh of preoip tation or more was twelve for each November; the greatest monthly precipitation was 9.35, in 1881, an! the least monthly preci pitation was .8, iu 1872. The greatest amount of precipitation rooorded in any twenty-four consecutive hours was 4.3 inches. November 17-18,1881. The greatest amount of snow-fall recorded in anv twenty.four consecutive hours [record extending only to 1884-85] was 4.7 inches, November 26-27, 1902. The average camber of clear day# was seven; partly cloudy days, nine, and cloudy days fourteen. Tbe prevailing direction of Ibe aii d was from the northwest; tie average hourly velocity of the w<nd was 11.1 mike, and tbe Highest velocity was forty eight miles, f'om sooth, on November 11. 19 *l.