Rare Southern U.S. Winter Storm; Dangerous Cold Weather For Much of the Eastern U.S.; Critical Fire Weather for Southern California

A rare winter storm impacting the Southern U.S. will move offshore Wednesday morning. Behind the storm, arctic air will continue encompassing the eastern two-thirds of the Nation with only a slow return to normal temperatures expected by the end of the week. Moderate to strong Santa Ana winds and low humidity will maintain Critical fire weather conditions in southern California into Thursday. Read More >

Meteorological autumn (September - November) will end up as being one of the driest on record for many locations across northeastern South Dakota and west-central Minnesota. In fact, several reporting locations have set or tied their all time record for driest autumn periods on record!

The table below shows the Sep-Nov 2011 precipitation totals for several sites across the Aberdeen forecast area, along with the overall ranking, and year and amount of the record (or previous record) dry autumn.

Location	Sept-Nov Precipitation	Rank	Record (or previous record)	Year
Clark	1.41	1st	1.44	1935
Watertown	0.93	1st(Tie)	0.93	1935
Artichoke Lake	1.44	1st(Tie)	1.44	1976
Browns Valley	1.33	2nd	1.30	1980
Victor 4NNE	1.31	3rd	0.91	1976
Wilmot	1.51	4th	1.39	1976
Summit 1W	1.59	4th	1.20	1980
Wheaton	1.33	4th	1.19	1976
Sisseton	1.64	10th	0.88	1935
Aberdeen	1.47	11th	0.80	1964

Figure 1 below depicts the 90-Day Departure from Normal Precipitation. Notice that precipitation departures across far eastern South Dakota range from 2.0” below normal to as much as 5.0” below normal!

Figure 2 below depicts the 90-Day Percent of Normal Precipitation. Notice that some areas across far eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota have only seen 5% of normal precipitation.

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Rare Southern U.S. Winter Storm; Dangerous Cold Weather For Much of the Eastern U.S.; Critical Fire Weather for Southern California

Record or Near Record Dry Autumn 2011 Across the Area