Historical Thanksgiving Weather

Historical Thanksgiving Weather

	Louisville	Lexington	Bowling Green	Frankfort
Highest Temperature	73° in 1896	71° in 1896	75° in 1896	74° in 1979
Highest Average Temperature	65.5° in 1896	62.5° in 1896	65.5° in 1896	62.5° in 1908
Lowest Temperature	8° in 1930	3° in 1930	15° in 1950 and 1912	7° in 1930
Lowest Average Temperature	14.5° in 1930	10° in 1930	22.5° in 1911	16.5° in 1930
Wettest	2.19" in 2010	1.17" in 1959	2.03" in 1959	1.81" in 1896
Snowiest	1.2" in 1938	4.2" in 1938	2.1" in 1950	3.5" in 1938
Deepest Snow Cover	1" in 1971, 30, 29	4" in 1938	2" in 1938	4" in 1938

Wilmore, Kentucky on Novmber 12, 2013

Wilmore, Kentucky on November 12, 2013. Photo: Neil, via Twitter

Note on the data presented here:
At Bowling Green and Frankfort data presented here may differ from data presented elsewhere. That is due primarily to "time shifting," which is when observers give their 24-hour reports at 7am. The high temperature, for example, may be given by the observer as 80 degrees on the 7am report on June 1, meaning that the 80 degree reading actually happened on the calendar day of May 31 (the previous afternoon). Unfortunately that high temperature may have gone into the climatological record as having happened on June 1, since that is the date of the report. Additionally, data may be time shifted for only a portion of a location's history.

An additional problem at Bowling Green is that there have been many observers over the years, occasionally simultaneously, and a difference can arise depending on which observer's data are used.

These issues are not present at Louisville and Lexington.