Will we see another year with below-zero temperatures?
Randy Mann.
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December is here and we’ve finally received some snow after a relatively normal average temperature in November. Only 0.3 inches of snow fell in Coeur d’Alene last month and Cliff tells me that snowless Novembers in Coeur d’Alene have happened only seven times since 1895. The Spokane Airport picked up a little more snow than Coeur d’Alene last month as 0.8 inches fell.
The first three weeks of November were relatively mild, but the last week of November had high temperatures below the 40-degree mark. The average high-temperature last month was 42.4 degrees. The coldest afternoon last month was Nov. 28 with a high temperature of only 28 degrees. The warmest day in November was Nov. 5 with a high temperature of 54 degrees.
As I’ve mentioned frequently, we have a warm, El Niño sea-surface temperature event in the waters of the south-central Pacific Ocean. With a recently declared strong El Niño, we will likely have additional milder-than-normal afternoon temperatures in Coeur d’Alene and surrounding regions. Despite the recent colder weather and snow across the Inland Northwest, we should still see a back-and-forth pattern of mild and cold through December.
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