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November has been an odd month weather-wise.

With temperatures averaging above normal and scarce rainfall, this has been a month for the record books.

“The coldest temperature so far this fall at the Nashville Airport has been 34 degrees,” said Bobby Boyd, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Nashville.

Last year, the first freeze fell a month earlier on Oct. 29 with low of 29 degrees. So far until last night the lowest temperature of the fall was 34 degrees.
 
  The 10 driest Novembers on record:
2009  0.22 inches
1949 0.54 inches
1912 0.65 inches
1953 0.70 inches
1901 0.85 inches
1917 0.85 inches
1916 1.00 inches
1954 1.12 inches
1910 1.17 inches
1971 1.18 inches

“The latest that Nashville has gone in the fall without reaching 32 degrees or colder is Nov. 27 and it occurred back in 1902,” he said.

Since it froze last night, Nashville tied the record for the latest freeze on record.

The Nashville area is also experiencing one of the driest Novembers on record, marking only 0.22 inches of rain so far.

“Thus far this is the driest November in Nashville since record keeping began back in 1870,” Boyd said.

Michelle Willard can be contacted at 615-869-0816 or mwillard@murfreesboropost.com.
 
 
 
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Member Opinions:
By: SocEtTuem on 11/27/09
I don't know about the Nashville Airport, but we have had several frosts here in the Walter Hill area, including the first near the end of October, just as one would expect.

By: canalou on 11/27/09
Records in Nashville totally diff from us rural folks...I've tried for years to get five different weather-official reporting stations for Middle Tennessee....

By: elguapo on 11/27/09
In Lascassas area we have had several mornings in the low 20's.

By: thankyouforsmoking on 11/27/09
Yeah I'm not so sure about that record. Granted, we've had a beautiful November for the most part, but I think the fact that Nashville has grown into a concrete/asphalt jungle probably has something to do with holding off the first freeze. As stated above, many rural areas have seen frost. And 100 years ago Nashville would have been "rural".

By: abide on 11/28/09
You are right thankyouforsmoking I have seen a ten degree difference in temperature from Briley parkway to Murfreesboro, so yes it is a lot warmer in Nashville.

By: TimPowers on 11/28/09
NOT Global Warming like article is implying. LIke you guys are saying, asphalt in the cities is the reason for late frosts in the cities.

By: cmac on 11/30/09
Many atmospheric temperature recording stations around the U.S. are located near concrete, asphalt, brick and metal structures. Data derived from such stations is highly biased toward "warming". This data is plugged into computer "models" which then predict that Earth is headed into a carbon dioxide disaster. The real culprits responsible for temporary temperature fluctuations are called "solar energy" and "urban sprawl". No doubt that rural areas better reflect the true mean values of seasonal temperatures.

By: Farmall on 11/30/09
I used to live less than 2 miles from the Nashville airport, and often times the temperture would differ by as much as 5 degrees from their reports. Rainfall amounts would vary a quite a bit as well.


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