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The cold facts: This November's been out of the ordinary

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LEFT OUT IN THE COLD: About a half foot of snow covers some lawn chairs that didn't find shelter before the storm. (Rochester Voice photo)

If you're thinking this has been a snowier and colder November than usual, you are absolutely correct.

In fact, if the Greater Rochester area gets six inches of snow in Tuesday's predicted storm - which is forecast to deliver 4-8 inches - it will already be the 20th snowiest November on record with 10 days of November left to go.

The second snowstorm in three days is expected to begin pummeling the Northern Seacoast early Tuesday around 1 a.m. and won't wind down till around 9 p.m.

Tom Hawley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine, said the reporting station at Concord shows they've already received 5.4 inches of snow this month, similar to Rochester, and that's 4.6 inches above the normal amount through Sunday.

Using records that date back to 1873, the average snowfall for all of November is 2.6 inches, Hawley said.

And it's been colder than normal, too. Hawley said the average temperature in Concord this November thus far is 37 degrees, 3.4 degrees below normal.

The coldest November on record was in 1873 when the average temperature was just 28.8 degrees; the warmest was 2006 at 43.3.

Asked if he thought the cold and snow were of striking significance, Hawley shrugged it off.

"It's not earthshattering," he said. "If we get to the top 10, maybe. We would need another 14.5 inches to get there."

Luckily, most forecasters agree, that's not in the cards. No major snowstorms are forecast for the month after Tuesday.

If you were wondering what the record cumulative November snowfall in New Hampshire is, that would be 25 inches in 1873.

Meanwhile, there have been six Novembers on record with nary an inch of snow, the most recent just three years ago in 2015.

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