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Article: November 2004.(weatherwatch)
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- Weatherwise
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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Wet weather turned much of the South to mud and water. A number of November precipitation records were broken from Texas to Alabama, and monthly rainfall topped one foot from the western Gulf Coast to the Mississippi Delta. Some locations on the southern High Plains received more than twice the November rainfall ever recorded. In contrast, mild, mostly dry weather prevailed across the northern Plains and upper Midwest. Meanwhile, from the Rockies west, cool, stormy weather in the Great Basin and the Four Corners States contrasted with drier-than-normal conditions in the Northwest. Southwestern storminess continued to provide some relief from a multi-year drought, but ...