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famine” seems to be the rule. Last year he recorded 14.10 inches of precipitation during November.
Temperatures in October averaged about one and a half degrees above normal, about the same as those recorded last year. This November produced the coldest temperature recorded by Mr. Wingfield in the last five years, a low of 14 degrees at night and a high of 35 on the 14th. But, he said, there have been lows close to that cold almost every one of the past five years.
Compared to last year, temperatures so far this month are running 9.2 degrees colder at night and 8.4 degrees colder during the day. “That’s misleading for an average,” Mr. Wingfield said, because last year November was 7.8 total degrees (night and day averaged together) warmer than November of 1984. So when the figures are compared, last year turns out to be the oddball, he said.
The task force reported that groundwater levels in eight monitoring wells throughout the state are below normal, ranging from 11.3 feet off from average in Rockingham County (Western Piedmont) to 5.6 feet below normal in Buckingham County (Eastern Piedmont).
In addition, the U. S. Geological Survey reports that the flows in most streams in the state are below normal, including “several of the streams east of the Blue Ridge (which are) at their lowest levels in October since 1964.” The Dan River may (according to preliminary data) have set a new low for the month of October, breaking the old mark set in 1952. Sixteen of the state’s 20 stream monitoring stations report
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