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I have very little to say today, which usually means I say a lot...the fun is in
OVERDOING it, isn't it? But I'm actually pressed for time so let's do a little
sum-up of our November rainfall now that skies have finally cleared inn all but
southeast Oklahoma. Even the snow is gone from the western OK Panhandle.



Darn, that's downright boring (hey, Downright Boring was my band's name in
everybody's thoughts that ever listened to us!), which is a good thing I reckon
after all the flooding and tornadoes this month. Oh yeah, the the rainfall sum-up.



So we ended yesterday with a statewide average of 7.85 inches for November, which
I have said easily bests our previous record of 6.05 inches for November 2015.

We blew that one out of the water (BA-DUM-BUM!). Thanks, I'll be here all week!
Be sure and tip your servers.

But here's an even more incredible statistic...November 2024's statewide average
rainfall total (with 11 more days to go) places it as the 16th-wettest month
since records began in 1895.

That's 1559 months in total, and Nov. 2024 is wetter than 1543 of them.

Incredible, ain't it? Here's the listing of the top-20 wettest months in Oklahoma
history.

Year	Month	Total
2015	May	14.44
2019	May	11.61
1941	Oct	10.75
1957	May	10.54
1982	May	10.38
1943	May	 9.66
2007	Jun	 9.51
1902	May	 9.14
1950	Jul	 9.07
1923	Oct	 8.73
1908	Jun	 8.50
1942	Apr	 8.32
1908	May	 8.09
1957	Apr	 8.04
1987	May	 7.92
2024	Nov	 7.85
1921	Jun	 7.82
1935	May	 7.82
1989	Jun	 7.78
1945	Sep	 7.76

Even more remarkably, this November managed to break out of the warm-season
domination of those wettest months. I guess it's debatable given a couple of
Octobers in there, but November 2024 is the only COLD month, I guess, which I'd
define as November through February. In fact, there's not even another Nov-Feb
month in the top 100 except for November 2015, whose record we just broke.

Incredible again, ain't it?

Well, I'll leave you with a bit of fantasy-cast excitement to mull over (and we
all know just how painful that can be!) since our weather is gonna be decidedly
boring for the next week...how about Snowsgiving next week?



Exciting! At least until the next model run when it disappears.

Gary McManus
State Climatologist
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climate Survey
gmcmanus@ou.edu



                

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