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| My surroundings on Thursday said stick season, but the air said midsummer as record highs were smashed in Vermont and across the Northeast and southeastern Canada. Overnight lows were hot, too. |
Plattsburgh, New York takes the cake for breaking record highs in the most dramatic fashion to say the least.
It did get to 83 in Plattsburgh Thursday, smashing the record for the date of 72. It was also the latest 80 degree reading on record there. (The old record was October 28). Their low temperature in Plattsburgh was 62 degrees, breaking the record for warmest minimum for the date by a full ten degrees, which is insane.
Then it gets even more whacko in Plattsburgh. It was still 77 degrees there at 12:01 this morning. That means Plattsburgh broke the record for the warmest reading for the entire month of November. Also, it's rare to break a previous high temperature by more than five degrees, so breaking it by 10 or 11 degrees is also ridiculous.
Burlington, Vermont was definitely in on the record breaking party, too. We have confirmation this morning that yesterday's high in Burlington was 77 degrees, breaking the old record by six degrees and becoming the warmest for so late in the season.
Thursday's low temperature in Burlington was 64 degrees which broke the record for warmest minimum temperature for the date by five degrees.
Then, at 12:01 a.m. in Burlington, it was still 72 degrees, enough to break the record high for the date today, November 1.
Just a few of of the dozens of other records set Thursday include:
Montpelier, Vermont, 75, old record 70.
Caribou, in northern Maine, 77, old record 69
Massena, New York, 77, old record 73
Hartford, Connecticut 84, old record 82
Syracuse, New York 81, old record 75.
Canadian cities smashed record highs as well. Here's a partial list:
Montreal reached 76 degrees, old record 71.
Quebec City, 71, old record 64.
Sherbrooke, Quebec 75, old record 68.
Ottawa, 75, old record 70.
As I noted yesterday, climate change is helping to turn what might have been fairly impressive warm spells to off the charts gonzo heat waves. This is the latest example.
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A cold front was sweeping through this morning, and temperatures were gradually falling. More record highs might occur today in eastern New England and the Mid-Atlantic States ahead of the cold front.
Wildfires worries will continue into November, especially in southern New England and the Mid-Atlatic States. The cold front is carrying very few showers if any showers. Gusty winds and dry air today have prompted red flag warnings for fire danger across southern New England, southern New York and parts of New Jersey.
Little or no rain is forecast in southern New England and the Mid-Atlantic states for at least a week, continuing an increasingly dangerous drought there.
Up here in northern Vermont, a little rain fell, but nothing impressive. Burlington reported 0.04 inches. Montpelier came in with 0.03 inches early this morning. With those gusty winds, the forest fire risk today in Vermont is high across northern areas and very high in the southern half of the state, according to the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation.
A statewide burn ban remains in effect.
Temperatures in Vermont will slowly fall all day and be in the 50s for the most part by late afternoon.
The weekend will be generally sunny and just a little cool for the season, but certainly not the least bit unusual for early November. We'll have highs in the 40s, lows in the 20s. It'll just seem cold compared to the weather we just had.
A warm front will prompt some chilly rain Monday in northern New England. We should see another brief squirt of very warm air Tuesday and part of Wednesday, but it won't be as intensely balmy as the air we just experienced on Halloween.
If you have not already voted, you should have no trouble going to the polls with the weather Tuesday given the expected toasty weather for the season.
I'll have my monthly summary of how Vermont's weather fared in October in a separate post later today.
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