Posted on 11/19/2018 9:33:15 AM PST by rktman
For some Northeast cities, high temperatures on Thanksgiving could be close to the coldest on record no matter what day of the month the holiday was celebrated (e.g. Nov. 22, Nov. 24, Nov. 26, etc.).
The official U.S. Thanksgiving Day has been the last Thursday of November from 1863 to 1938; the next-to-last Thursday from 1939 to 1941; and the fourth Thursday from 1942 to present.
New York City has only had three Thanksgivings dating to 1870 when the high temperature failed to rise out of the 20s, according to National Weather Service statistics. The coldest was a high of 26 degrees on Nov. 28, 1901.
Forecast highs Thursday could be near that all-time record coldest high set almost 117 years ago.
In southern New England, Boston could come within a couple of degrees of its coldest Thanksgiving high of 24 degrees, also set Nov. 28, 1901.
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morning low Thursday am could be 20 .. rise to high of 29 Thanksgiving Day
then Friday morning low will be around 15. But Sunday high back to 50
Winter’s cold. Film at 11.
Here in Minneapolis it was 6 degrees when I left the house yesterday. It has been cold for several weeks. Rather unusual.
if this does not prove the need for global warming
carbon credits, what does?
DAMNED GLOBAL WARMING!!!
Winter officially starts on December 21.
However, it is going to be below normal temps here in NH later this week. Predicting a high of 18 on Thursday. Low of 6.
Typically, its in the 35-45 this time of year. Like today it is high 30’s and drizzling rain.
Someone should sue algore back to the stone age. Or, maybe the ice age. Maybe more fitting.
I never bought my carbon credits.
I’m in trouble now.
I never made a donation to the Clinton foundation either.
I’m in bigger trouble.......
while growing up, watching TV reruns the cold was never an issue on Mary Tyler Moore show :) . And Rhoda just said “Minneapolis where its cold.”
More and more of this is to be expected over the next couple of years, no? Solar minimum and all that.
Sorry Al, the jig is up.
Very strange here in central Vermont. High temperatures all week in the 30s and 40s, except for Thanksgiving Day, which is predicted to have a high of 8 degrees. One cold day of the week. Looks like no picnicking outside for the kiddies this year.
I guess the North Pole is paying us a one-day visit.
***The coldest was a high of 26 degrees on Nov. 28, 1901. ***
Cry me a river. The coldest Thanksgiving I can EVER remember was in the Ozarks in 1976. About 10 degrees, wind blowing hard, and my brother-in-law got the bright idea of going hunting over in Oklahoma. We took off and before we got anywhere near the hunting area, he said “Lets go home! This is too cold for me!” It was brutal!
Nov 28, 1976, 13 degrees, Nov 29, 10 degrees. Wind about 40 mph.
It was used as proof we were entering “A NEW ICE AGE!”
1976-1977 was a murderously cold winter. Snow, ice, flu, pneumonia for me. I never liked cold weather after that.
Houston (west side) has already seen a snowfall. Very light flurries, but recordable. VERY strange.
Only a matter of time before this thread degenerates into folks jawboning about how cold it was in “their day” and that us whippersnappers have no idea what real cold is.
It was so cold, our whiskey froze!
Yep like when people say they saw Niagara Falls freeze over,etc.
Actually I went to Intellicast to make sure I was right. I was off a couple of days. It was colder that entire Thanksgiving weekend.
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/History.aspx?location=USOK0277
Football used to be a big thing on Thanksgiving. I remember those 1970s days when it was turkey and football.
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