Thanksgiving Weather Records

[ChescoWx]

Thanks to my lack of a life on a Saturday Night with 2 grade school age kids...not out and about tonight - I went back and crunched the numbers for Turkey Day in Chester County Pa. This was not as easy as some analysis as Thanksgiving falling on the 4th Thursday of November is not conducive to standard excel pivot tables that I normally use but here are the weather facts for Thanksgivings in Chester County Pa during the last 125 years of CoOp history since 1894.

Highest Temps on Thanksgiving Day

1 - 11/30/1933 - 72.0

2- 11/26/1896 - 70.0

3 - 11/22/2007 - 68.9

4 - 11/22/1979 - 68.0

5 - 11/26/1914 - 67.0

Lowest Temps on Thanksgiving Day

1 - 11/26/1903 - 14.0

2 - 11/27/1947 - 17.0

3 - 11/24/2005 - 18.8

4 - 11/23/2000 - 19.9

5 - 11/29/1894 - 19.0

Lowest Max Temp on Thanksgiving Day

1. 11/28/1996 - 27.0

2. 11/27/1930 - 31.0

3. 11/23/2000 - 32.9

4. 11/28/1901 - 34.0

5. 11/27/1958 - 35.0

Most Snow on Thanksgiving Day

1. 11/24/1898 - 3.2"

2. 11/23/1989 - 2.8"

3. 11/24/2005 - 1.6"

4. 11/28/1901 - 1.2"

5. 11/25/1909 - 1.0"

[ChescoWx]

Our high for today will be the 30.2 at midnight making this our 2nd coldest Thanksgiving max temp behind only the 27.0 high from 1996 (records back to 1894)

We also reached the teens club for the 1st time with a low of 19.5 - good for coldest Thanksgiving since 2005 and overall our 5th coldest reading on Turkey day passing the 19.9 from Thanksgiving 2000. Good shot we move up in the rankings before midnight the top 4 coldest are:

11/26/1903 - 14.0

11/27/1947 - 17.0

11/24/2005 - 18.8

11/29/1894 - 19.0

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!

Paul