I hate to say it, but this cold November pattern is very similar to the pattern that set up last winter. If warm air continues to get pushed into Alaska and western Canada, we can expect the cold to continue to spill into the lower 48. Even though temperatures will return near average this weekend, they fall right back down for the week of Thanksgiving.
A couple records have already been broken this month when the low fell to 8° just this last Tuesday and only reached 19° during the afternoon. Today, it's possible another record will fall if the high fails to reach 25°.
For more on that record, see the previous post from Meteorologist Brandon Arnold.
Unfortunately, the record setting month continues for snowfall. Even though we haven't seen any major snowfalls, there has been a trace of snow (0.01") or more recorded since the 11th of the month. This puts us at 9 consecutive days of snowfall. This is the earliest stretch, over a week, of daily snowfall on record! The previous record had been the period from November 23rd - December 2nd, 1954. There had never been a stretch of nine consecutive November days with snowfall in Rockford prior to this current stretch! Impressive! Thankfully today the threat for flurries is low with high pressure, but we could be back into the snow globe for the week of Thanksgiving.
In regards to the cold, it doesn't look like we'll break any consecutive sub-freezing stretch, but 9 (including today) days of temperatures below freezing is LONG enough for me! The record for the longest stretch of below freezing days is 13 set in November of 1951. Temperatures will warm into the 40's by this weekend.
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