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Monthly Climate Summary - November 2013

National Weather Service, Springfield, MO

Overview

Normal Departure Maps

Records

Upcoming Normals

Monthly Climate Overview

November 2013 was a cooler and drier than normal month across the Missouri Ozarks and extreme southeast Kansas. The most precipitation came over the eastern Ozarks which brought them closer to normal for the month. Despite the lower than normal precipitation for the month, the area still remains well above normal for the year.

	Springfield	Joplin	West Plains	Vichy
Highest Temperature of the Month	73	71	78	75
Average High Temperature	53.9	54.7	54.2	52.0
Lowest Temperature of the Month	14	16	13	10
Average Low Temperature	33.3	34.1	32.6	31.6
Average Mean Temperature	43.6	44.4	43.4	41.8
Depart from Normal	-2.5	-4.0	-3.4	-3.4
Rank	35th coolest / 126	17th coolest / 85	15th coolest / 66	14th cooelst / 65
Days with lows of 32 deg F or Lower	12	12	16	17
Days with lows of 0 deg F or Lower	0	0	0	0
Days with highs of 32 degrees or lower	1	1	1	2
Days with highs of 90 degrees or warmer	0	0	0	0

Precipitation (Inches)	2.02	2.42	4.50	1.67
Depart from Normal	-2.20	-1.36	-0.08	-1.20
Rank	45th driest / 126	48th driest / 101	27th wettest / 66	30th wettest / 68
days of 0.01 or greater	8	7	8	7
days of 0.10 or greater	3	4	4	4
days of 0.50 or greater	2	3	2	1
days of 1.00 or greater	0	0	1	0
Monthly Snowfall	Trace

Monthly Climate Maps

November 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

November 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

November 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

November 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

Monthly Climate Records

List of November 2013 Records
Date	Station	Record
11/13/2013	Vichy-Rolla	Record low of 15 degrees tied the old record set in 1982.
11/17/2013	West Plains	Record high of 78 degrees breaks the old record of 74 set in 1952.
11/21/2013	West Plains	Record rainfall of 3.01 inches breaks the old record of 1.03 set in 1992.

Monthly Climate Normals

Normal Conditions for the Upcoming 3 Months
Springfield
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
December	44.9	25.0	3.04	4.9
January	42.9	22.4	2.47	5.4
February	48.2	26.1	2.52	3.6
Joplin
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
December	47.0	27.5	2.82	2.8
January	44.9	25.0	2.03	4.7
February	50.5	29.2	2.32	3.5
West Plains
	High	Low	Precip.
December	46.4	26.0	3.64
January	44.6	23.5	2.72
February	49.2	26.5	2.84
Vichy
	High	Low	Precip.
December	43.0	24.4	2.64
January	40.7	21.5	2.17
February	45.8	25.5	1.93