From ABR http://www.crh.noaa.gov/abr/scripts/wxhistory.php?data=nov05 
Also run off http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk 

New version http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_Nov_01
See also http://www.weather.gov/eax/wxhistory
Use http://www.weather.gov/abr/events#histarchive 

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1 November 1870 → General Albert J. Myer, head of the U.S. Signal Corps Weather Service, ordered the first simultaneous gathering of weather data across the United States. The information was used to produce the first national weather maps.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/lmk/nws_history_articulate/history_presentation/player/playershell.swf
1 November 2000 → The most widespread and severe flooding since 1947 was underway across parts of Britain as ten rivers in the UK flowed out of their banks.
1 November 2001 → Road crews were clearing snow from the highways of western North Dakota while winds were gusting to 55 mph 125 miles away in Bismarck.
1 November 1755: A magnitude 8.7 earthquake devastated the city of Lisbon, Portugal on this day, killing as many as 50,000 people. The epicenter was located 120 miles west-southwest of Cape St. Vincent. Many individuals who sought safety on the Tagus River were killed by an estimated 20 foot tall tsunami that struck 40 minutes after the earthquake. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel. 
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earthquake-takes-heavy-toll-on-lisbon
Click HERE for more information from the USGS. 
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/events/1755_11_01.php
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%201%2C%201755%20Lisbon%20Earthquake.jpg
Image courtesy from USGS.gov
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Lisbon1755hangingdetail.JPG

This is a close-up from The Ruins of Lisbon, a 1755 German engraving. Courtesy of the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE), University of California, Berkeley, with permission permitted under the terms of non-profit sharing agreement (Jan Kozak collection). Original in: Museu da Cidade, Lisbon. 
 http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%201%2C%201755%20The%20Ruins%20of%20Lisbon.jpg
1 November 1848: When Henry came to the Smithsonian, one of his first priorities was to set up a meteorological program. In 1847, while outlining his plan for the new institution, Henry called for "a system of extended meteorological observations for solving the problem of American storms." By 1849, he had budgeted $1,000 for the Smithsonian meteorological project and established a network of some 150 volunteer weather observers. A decade later, the project had more than 600 volunteer observers, including people in Canada, Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Its cost in 1860 was $4,400, or thirty percent of the Smithsonian's research and publication budget. Click HERE for more information from the Smithsonian Institution Archives.  http://siarchives.si.edu/history/exhibits/henry/meteorology#c1
Photograph of a portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878), physicist and first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1846-1878). Portrait painter Henry Ulke first painted Henry in 1875, for display at the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876. That portrait was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1917, and hung for many years in the Secretary's Parlor in the Smithsonian Institution Building or "Castle." This is an 1879 version by Ulke derived from the original 1875 portrait.  http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%201%201879%20Joseph%20Henry.png

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2 November 1743 → A hurricane off the eastern coast of the United States proved Ben Franklin's hypothesis that storms off the coast move in a northeasterly direction. The storm hit Franklin's residence in Philadelphia before striking a friend's house in Boston, despite winds at Philadelphia coming from the northeast. Franklin then correctly surmised that storms do not necessarily follow winds that are felt at the surface.
2 November 1946 → Heavy wet snow fell in the southern Rockies. Denver recorded 31 inches in three days, one of its greatest snowstorms on record.
2 November 2000 → Heavy thunderstorms pounded the Hawaiian Islands. Hilo, on the east coast of the Big Island, reported 27.24 inches of rain in a 24-hour period.
2 November 1743: Benjamin Franklin's "eclipse hurricane" unlocked the key to storm movement. Ben Franklin, at Philadelphia, PA was prevented from viewing a lunar eclipse in a northeast rainstorm, but his brother, who was in Boston, saw it, though the rain began an hour later. Click HERE for more information from the Hurricane Research Division.
https://noaahrd.wordpress.com/tag/benjamin-franklins-eclipse-hurricane/
2 November 1992: Another infamous November Great Lakes Storm brought windy conditions to Minnesota's Lake Superior shoreline. 70-mph winds caused waves to crash over 130-foot walls along the shore.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%202%2C%201992%20Wind%20Event.jpg
Surface map for November 2 at 7 AM.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%203%2C%201992%20Wind%20Event.jpg
Surface map for November 2 at 7 AM.
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3 November 1991 → Pueblo, CO dropped to 17 below zero breaking the old record by an amazing 28 degrees. Alamosa, CO recorded 26 degrees below zero, breaking the old record by 18 degrees. Snow flurries fell in Brownsville, TX.
3 November 2000 → Three tornadoes struck the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Golf ball sized hail was reported as well.
3 November 2002 → A chain-reaction car accident occurred on the Long Beach Freeway in Los Angeles. It was caused by dense fog, slick roads, and speeding. 198 cars were involved.
3 November 1927: Historical flooding occurred across Vermont from November 2nd through the 4th. This flood washed out 1285 bridges, miles of roads and railways, and several homes and buildings. Eighty four people were killed from the flooding, including Lt. Governor S. Hollister Jackson. Click HERE for more information from the University of Vermont's Landscape Change Program.   
https://www.uvm.edu/landscape/1927_flood/about_1927_flood.htm
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%203%2C%201927%20Vermont%20Flood.jpg

3 November 1966: An early season snowfall, which started on the 2nd, whitened the ground from Alabama to Michigan. Mobile, Alabama had their earliest snowflakes on record. Louisville, Kentucky measured 13.1 inches, Nashville, Tennessee reported 7.2 inches and Huntsville, Alabama had 4 inches of snow.
Image courtesy from the Midwestern Regional Climate Center.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%203%2C%201966%20Snowstorm.jpg
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4 November 1927 → A decaying tropical cyclone dumped more than 15 inches of rain on the Green Mountains of Vermont. The flooding killed 200 people, including the Lieutenant Governor.  http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/events/27flood.shtml
4 November 1959 → A small F0 tornado caused minor damage near Cape St. Elias Light Station on Kayak Island, AK. There were no injuries.
4 November 1973 → An F3 tornado struck Brisbane, Australia, destroying nearly two thousand homes.
4 November 2001 → Hurricane Michelle became the strongest hurricane to strike Cuba since 1952 when it made landfall with top winds of 140 mph.
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/michelle2001.html
4 November 1935: Called the "Yankee Hurricane", a Category 2 hurricane that affected the Bahamas and South Florida remains the only tropical cyclone to hit Miami from the northeast in November. Click HERE for more information from the NWS Office in Miami, Florida. Note the link is a pdf.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/mfl/news/YankeeHurricane1935.pdf
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Yankee%20Hurricane%20of%201935.jpg
4 November 1985: Heavy rains from the remnants of tropical storm Juan dropped 10 to 19 inches of rain on West Virginia and surrounding states, causing 62 deaths. A maximum of 19.77 inches was recorded near Montebello in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. The flood in West Virginia was considered the worst in the State's history.
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%204%2C%201985%20West%20Virginia%20Flood.png
Image courtesy from Storm Data.
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5 November 1985 → The flood of November 4-5, 1985 in northern and eastern WV and western VA may have been the most destructive flood on some streams in the past 2,000 years, based on archaeological evidence. The remnants of Hurricane Juan, a slow-moving upper level trough moving eastward over the Ohio Valley, a high-pressure ridge over the eastern seaboard, and a low level jet stream carrying large quantities of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico combined to form the storm. Rainfall amounts ranged from 12 to 20 inches. Some flood peaks were the greatest ever recorded. Nine thousand homes were destroyed or severely damaged. More than 500 bridges were damaged or washed away. Forty-seven deaths were reported, and property damage was estimated at $500 million.   http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/lmk/Nov_1985_WV_VA_flood.pdf
5 November 1987 → Flash floods stranded 8,000 people in Death Valley National Park in southern California as more than an inch of rain fell, washing out many roads.
5 November 1991 → Typhoon Thelma was one of the most devastating tropical systems to affect the Philippines in the 20th Century. Reports indicated that 6000 people died by catastrophic events including dam failure, landslides, and extensive flash flooding. The highest casualties occurred on Leyte Island where widespread logging in recent years had stripped the hills above the port city bare of vegetation.
5 November 2002 → Alabama's perfect record for the year was spoiled when two fatalities occurred in Abbeville because of a tornado. Five days later, a larger tornado outbreak killed 12 people in the state.
5 November 1991: Nearly 3,000 individuals were killed in the Philippines when Tropical Storm Thelma produced massive flooding on this day. This was the second major disaster of the year as Mount Pinatubo violently erupted on June 12th. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/philippines-struggles-with-severe-flooding
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%205%2C%201991.jpg
This image shows Tropical Storm Thelma just prior to landfall on November 4 at 0511 UTC. This image was produced from data from NOAA-11, provided by NOAA.
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6 November 1977 → At 1:30 am the Kelly Barnes Dam near Toccoa, GA failed after a period of heavy rain; seven inches since November 2. In particular, 3.5 inches fell between 6 pm and midnight November 5. The resulting flash flood caused 39 fatalities, destroyed several houses, and damaged buildings on the campus of Toccoa Falls College.
See http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea00704.htm
and http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea00705.htm
6 November 1988 → A powerful storm in the northern Great Lakes dropped 2 feet of snow along the shore of Lake Superior and 3 feet in the Porcupine Mountains of Upper Michigan. Marquette established a November record with 17.3 inches in 24 hours.
6 November 2001 → Remnants of Hurricane Noel intensified over the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The massive storm blew out car windows, caused blackouts, and swamped wharves. Confederation Bridge closed for the first time ever when winds gusted up to 96 mph.
6 November 1977: Several possible causes lead to the collapse of the Kelly Barnes Dam in Georgia to give way. The collapse allowed a 40 acre lake to flood the Toccoa Falls College, killing 39 people and injured 60 more. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dam-gives-way-in-georgia
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%206%2C%201977%20Kelly%20Barnes%20Dam.jpg
Twisted remains of a vehicle and other debris following a flash flood in Toccoa, Georgia. Image courtesy from the NOAA Photo Library. The USGS also has several pictures, as well as the Report of the Failure of Kelly Barnes Dam and Findings. Click HERE for the USGS information.
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/news/historical-toccoa/
6 November 2005: The deadliest tornado to strike Indiana since April 3, 1974, occurred around 2 am. Twenty four fatalities, 238 injuries, and nearly 90 million dollars in damage were inflicted by a single F3 tornado with a path length of 41 miles. This tornado moved in a northeasterly direction from just north of Smith Mills Kentucky to Gentryville, Indiana and crossed the Ohio River three times. Most of the damage occurred as the tornado passed southeast of the city of Evansville, Indiana. Click HERE for more information from the NWS Office in Paducah. 
http://www.weather.gov/pah/2005EvansvilleTornado
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%206%2C%202005%20Evansville%20Tornado.jpg
This is the only known photo of the tornado. Taken from the webcam at Deaconess Hospital, Evansville as lightning lit up the tornado.
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7 November 1837 → One of the most intense hurricanes ever to strike Hawaii brought winds of 115 mph to Hilo, killing 730 people.
7 November 1940 → The infamous Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Tacoma, WA collapsed in strong winds just four months after it opened. The winds caused the spans of the bridge to vibrate violently. Twisting motion caused the roadbed to tilt 45 degrees from horizontal one way and then the other until it finally collapsed.  http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/tnbhistory/Connections/connections3.htm 
7 November 1957 → Strong tornadoes swept from the southeast corner of Texas through Louisiana and Mississippi. The worst was an F4 that struck Orange, TX where 180 homes were destroyed and a pregnant woman was killed. Several barges and ships on the Sabine River were torn from their moorings.  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/?n=e110757
7 November 1940: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which opened on July 1, 1940, spanned the Puget Sound from Gig Harbor to Tacoma. At the time of the opening, the bridge was the third longest suspension bridge in the world, covering nearly 6,000 feet. Before the bridge opened, strong winds would cause the bridge to move vertically, giving the nickname Galloping Gertie. On this day in 1940, winds of 40 mph caused the bridge to collapse because of the physical phenomenon known as aeroelastic flutter. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel. Click HERE for video of the bridge.  http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tacoma-narrows-bridge-collapses  
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_destruction.ogg
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%207%2C%201940%20Tacoma%20Narrows%20Bridge.jpg
The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge roadway.
7 November 1951: At 7 AM a blinding flash, a huge ball of fire, and a terrific roar occurred over parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, caused by a disintegrating meteor. Windows were broken in and near Hinton Oklahoma by the concussion.
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8 November 1819   → In Montreal at midday the sky turned from a greenish tint to an inky black, then sooty rain fell. Frightened citizens made their way to their church when suddenly a lightning bolt struck the church's spire, and it crashed to the ground. The next day was bright and clear as if nothing had happened.  From http://www.crh.noaa.gov/eax/wxhistory/
8 November 1870 → The nation's brand new weather service issued its first storm forecast for the Great Lakes.
8 November 1953 → More than 200 people were killed in New York City when the area was stuck in smog for ten days.  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c10000/3c14000/3c14300/3c14346v.jpg
8 November 1870 → The nation's brand new weather service issued its first storm forecast for the Great Lakes.
8 November 1953 → More than 200 people were killed in New York City when the area was stuck in smog for ten days.
8 November 2013 → Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the central Philippines with 16 foot waves, a foot of rain, and winds on land of 147 mph gusting to 170 mph (winds of 195mph with gusts to 235 mph were estimated when the system had been over open water). Five to six thousand people were estimated to have perished.  http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Organization/History/imagery/Haiyan/index.html
8 November 1870: The first storm warning was issued by the U.S. Signal Corps Weather Service. Professor Increase A. Lapham believed that warnings of deadly storms on the Great Lakes could be derived from telegraphed weather observations. A bill was introduced and signed into law to establish a national telegraphic weather service. The Signal Corps began taking observations of November 1, 1870. On this date, Lapham would issue the first storm warning, a cautionary forecast for the Great Lakes.
8 November 1994: The twelfth and final tropical cyclone of the Atlantic hurricane season formed on this day in the southwestern Caribbean. While Hurricane Gordon was only a Category 1, it still killed 1,149 individuals, including 1,122 in Haiti.
File:Gordon 1994 track.png
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%208%2C%201994%20Hurricane%20Gordon.jpg
Hurricane Gordon's storm track.
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%208%2C%201994%20Hurricane%20Gordon%20Rainfall.jpg
Storm total rainfall map for Hurricane Gordon. Image courtesy from the Weather Prediction Center.
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9 November 1913 → The "Great White Hurricane" brought 90-mph winds to the Great Lakes and generated 35-foot waves. There were a dozen major shipwrecks and 250 lives were lost.  http://www.regions.noaa.gov/great-lakes/centennial_anniversary_storm_of_1913/
9 November 1926 → An F4 tornado struck a school in La Plata, MD killing 14 students and faculty. It was the deadliest tornado in Maryland history.
9 November 1970 → One of the worst cyclones in recent history hit the coast of Bangladesh. Storm surges of 13 to 16 feet combined with high tides and more than 10 inches of rain caused incredible flooding and killed more than 300,000 people.
9 November 2002 → The Veterans Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak got underway. The outbreak began on the 9th with six tornadoes that struck western Tennessee, but by the time the weekend was over, 76 tornadoes were reported across 17 states, killing 36 people.
9 November 1864: On Election Night, a violent tornado strikes a ferry on Mississippi River near Chester, IL blowing away all but the hull. The boiler and engines are found up the bluff. Half of Chester is destroyed and twenty die during the storm.  
From http://www.weather.gov/media/ilx/Trivia/wxTrivia_october.pdf
9 November 1864: A tornado in southeastern Missouri crossed the Mississippi River into southwestern Illinois, affecting the areas around Chester and Richview. A ferry boat on the river was hit, with much of the debris being blown over a quarter mile. Four people in Chester were killed when the late-night tornado destroyed 14 houses.  
See also http://www.weather.com/storms/tornado/news/killer-november-tornadoes-illinois-history-20131119
Nov. 9, 1864: Five confirmed dead. A tornado started in southeast Missouri and crossed the Mississippi River into Chester, Ill., killing four people. The tornado claimed another life farther northeast near Richview, close to modern-day Interstate 64. Until 2013, this was the deadliest November tornado day in Illinois history.
9 November 1864: On Election Night, a violent tornado strikes a ferry on Mississippi River near Chester blowing away all but the hull. The boiler and engines are found up the bluff. Half of Chester is destroyed and twenty die during the storm.
9 November 1913: The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 was a blizzard with hurricane force winds that devastated the Great Lakes Region, sinking as many as 19 ships and stranded 19 others. This would be the deadliest and most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the Great Lakes.  Click HERE for more information.  http://talesofriverside.blogspot.com/2007/12/great-lakes-storms.html
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%209%2C%201913%20The%20Great%20Lakes%20Storm.jpg
Cover of the Detroit News, Nov. 13, 1913, detailing the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. The mystery-boat in the picture was the carrier Charles S. Price.
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%209%2C%201913%20The%20Great%20Lakes%20Storm%20Cleveland.jpg
Cleveland after the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. Image courtesy from the Cleveland Memory Project.
9 November 1926: An estimated F3 to F4 tornado tore through La Plata, Maryland, killing 14 individuals at a small school. This storm caused 17 deaths and injured 65 others. Click HERE for more information from the Monthly Weather Review.
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/054/mwr-054-11-0462.pdf
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%209%2C%201926%20La%20Plata%20Tornado.jpg
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%209%2C%201926%20La%20Plata%20Tornado%20Newspaper.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WdP2KVr5fho/Tocj1PQKcuI/AAAAAAAAAw8/HOuTj-HTy74/s1600/IMG_1388-1.jpg
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10 November 1819 → In Montreal at midday the sky turned from a greenish tint to an inky black, then sooty rain fell. Frightened citizens made their way to Notre Dame Church when suddenly a lightning bolt struck the church's spire and it crashed to the ground. The next day was bright and clear.
10 November 1915 → Great Bend, KS was struck by an F4 tornado that swept away farms and took 11 lives. About a thousand sheep were killed on local ranches. Debris from town was carried 85 miles. Hundreds of dead ducks plummeted from the sky 25 miles beyond the end of the tornado's path.
10 November 1975 → The Edmund Fitzgerald sank northeast of Whitefish Point on Lake Superior, killing 29 crew members. Surface pressure dropped to 29.00 inches, producing sustained winds of 60 mph and wave heights of over 20 feet.
 http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mqt/?n=Edmund_Fitzgerald
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mqt/?n=fitz_fitz
See http://gordonlightfoot.com/wreckoftheedmundfitzgerald.shtml#aboutchange 
(For 10 November 1998 -- See about Saginaw Bay at
http://www.examiner.com/article/wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald-a-dry-saginaw-bay-and-heavy-snow  )	
10 November 2002 → The town of Mossy Grove, TN was "wiped off the map" by a destructive tornado that killed 7 people. 
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mrx/svrevnts/nov10tornadoes/nov10tornado.php
10 November 1975: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks 17 miles northwest of Whitefish Point, at the northeastern tip of Michigan's Upper Peninsula on Lake Superior. While the cause of the sinking is unknown, strong winds and high waves likely played a significant role. The crew of 29 members was lost from this event. Click HERE for more information from WGN.
http://wgntv.com/2015/11/04/40-years-later-sinking-of-edmund-fitzgerald-still-resonates/
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%2010%2C%201975%20Edmund%20Fitzgerald.jpg
Marine accident report SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinking in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, 34. National Transportation Safety Board (1978-05-04).
10 November 2002: The second largest November tornado outbreak on record over the eastern United States occurred during the Veterans Day weekend of November 9-11, 2002. Seventy-six tornadoes were reported in seventeen states. Of the 76 tornadoes, almost one out of every six was a killer, resulting in 36 fatalities. Click HERE for more information from a NWS assessment of the event.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/assessments/pdfs/veteran.pdf
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%2010%2C%202002%20Tornado%20Outbreak.jpg
Tornado track map from the November 10, 2002 Veterans Day weekend outbreak. Click HERE for video of an F-4 tornado as seen from an Ohio Highway Patrol Unit.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tHc817UlEA
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11 November 1911 → An amazing cold front swept through the central United States. Oklahoma City reported a record high of 83 degrees *and* a record low of 17 degrees. The temperature at Independence, MO plunged 50 degrees in just one hour.
See http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=nov_11_1911_cold_front 
From Kansas City local http://www.crh.noaa.gov/eax/wxhistory/   11 November 1911   A fast moving cold front dropped the temperature from the 70s to the 40s within an hour. Within three hours temperatures were in the 20s and light snow was falling. The temperature range of 65 degrees from the record high of 76 to the record low of 11 is still the all time record.
See also http://www.weather.com/storms/tornado/news/killer-november-tornadoes-illinois-history-20131119
Nov. 11, 1911: One of the strongest Arctic cold fronts in U.S. history, accompanied by a sudden 65-degree drop in temperatures, spawned tornadoes in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The two Illinois fatalities came from a twister in Mason County, where a baby and an elderly woman died in separate homes.
11 November 1940 → The Armistice Day storm on the Great Lakes caused the wreck of three ships and several small crafts with the loss of 69 lives. Sustained winds reached 81 mph. The effects of the storm were felt over a large area. A fierce blizzard hit the Canadian Great Plains.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=nov111940
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dvn/?n=armistice_day_blizzard
11 November 1987 → A Veteran's Day snowstorm dumped 17 inches of snow on Washington, D.C.
See also http://fox4kc.com/2011/11/10/november-11th-1911/
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blue_Norther_of_November_11,_1911 
11 November 1911: A powerful cold front, known as the Great Blue Norther of 1911, produced some the most extreme temperature changes to the Nation's midsection. Ahead of the cold front, a warm and moist environment caused a severe weather outbreak with several strong tornadoes reported in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The strongest tornado occurred from Janesville to Milton, Wisconsin, where an estimated F4 tornado caused extensive damage to several farms and killed 9 people. The citizens of Janesville, Wisconsin, reported blizzard conditions with a temperature near zero within an hour of the tornado. Click HERE for more information, including temperatures maps from the National Weather Service Office in Louisville, Kentucky. http://www.weather.gov/lmk/nov_11_1911_cold_front
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%2011%2C%201911%20Virginia%20Illinois%20Tornado%20Damage.jpg
This image of Virginia, Illinois, is courtesy from the Cass County, Illinois Genealogy and History webpage. More images from this weather event can be found HERE. http://genealogytrails.com/ill/cass/1911cyclone/
Wisconsin State Journal headline from this powerful cold front.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%2011%2C%201911%20Wisconsin%20News%20Paper.jpg
See also http://www.weather.gov/oun/events-19111111
https://www.weather.gov/arx/nov111911
11 November 1940: An Armistice Day storm raged across the Great Lakes Region and the Upper Midwest. A blizzard left 49 dead in Minnesota, and gales on Lake Michigan caused shipwrecks resulting in another 59 deaths. Up to seventeen inches of snow fell in Iowa, and at Duluth MN the barometric pressure reached 28.66 inches. The blizzard claimed a total of 154 lives, and killed thousands of cattle in Iowa. Huge snowdrifts isolated whole towns. Click HERE for more information, including pictures, from the NWS Office in La Crosse.  http://www.weather.gov/arx/nov111940
See also http://www.weather.gov/lot/1940Nov11_armisticeday
http://www.weather.gov/dvn/armistice_day_blizzard

See http://www.weather.gov/mkx/CycloneBringsGalesofNovember for 2015 Gales of November in Wisconsin 
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12 November 1902 → The Great Dust-Up in Australia reached its climax. The dust storm caused visibility to be reduced to less than 70 feet and darkened the sky even during the daytime. In some towns, "balls of fire" were reported during the dust storm. A possible explanation is that fast-moving blowing dust particles generated static electricity which ignited organic matter carried along with the dust.
12 November 1912 → The paddlewheel steamer Mayflower sank in Lake Kamaniskeg in Canada during a blinding snowstorm. Three survivors clung to a coffin that the ship had been transporting and floated in the icy waters to shore.
12 November 1970: The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded, and one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern times occurred on this day in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. The Bhola Cyclone first formed over the Bay of Bengal on November 8, and traveled north. This cyclone reached peak intensity, Category 3, on the 11, and made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan the following afternoon. The Bhola Cyclone killed an estimated 500,000 people and caused nearly $90 million in damage (1970 USD).
File:BayofBengalTCNov1219700956UTCITOS1.png
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%2012%2C%201970%20Bhola%20Cycone.jpg
This ITOS 1 weather satellite image of the November 12, 1970 Bay of Bengal Tropical Cyclone was taken at 0956 UTC. Image courtesy from NOAA.
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/November/Nov%2012%2C%201970%20Bhola%20Cycone%20track.jpg
This is the storm track from this deadly cyclone.
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13 November 1904 → An Atlantic hurricane passed by the North Carolina coast causing some damage. Oddly, the rotation of the storm brought the same coastline a snowstorm the following day.
13 November 1933 → The first great dust storm of the Dust Bowl era of the 1930's occurred. The storm spread from Montana on the 12th to the Ohio Valley and the Atlantic Seaboard on the 13th, resulting in a black rain over New York and a brown snow in Vermont. Dust reduced the visibility to half a mile at Monteagle, TN, and to 3/4 of a mile at Bowman Field in Louisville.
13 November 1946 → GE scientist Vincent Schaefer unloaded dry ice into a cloud over western Massachusetts, which subsequently produced snowfall. This experiment served as a basis for further studies to modify weather.
13 November 1976 → An F3 tornado struck Sandon, Australia, on the Pacific coast. The tornado lifted a car 20 feet off the ground and threw it 300 feet into a ditch, killing the two occupants.
http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_Nov_13
13 November 1833: In 1833, observers were familiar with the Leonid meteor shower, but the event on that year was very intense and leads to the first formulation of a theory on the origin of meteors. By some estimates, the 1833 Leonid meteor shower had 240,000 meteors in a nine hour period. More information from this event, as well as others, can be found HERE.  http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/history.html
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A 19th century woodcut with an impression of the spectacular November 13, 1833 Leonid storm. Courtesy Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Early settlers look up in amazement at a sky filled with shooting stars.
13 November 1946: General Electric scientists produced snow in the Massachusetts Berkshires in the first modern day cloud seeding experiment. Scientist Vincent Schaefer dropped six pounds of dry ice pellets into a cloud over Pittsfield, MA. The cloud seeding experiment produced snowfall, as a 4 mile long cloud was converted into snow flurries. The success of the experiment became the basis of many weather modification projects.
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14 November 1970 → Seventy-five people, including the Marshall University football team, died when a Southern Airways DC-9 crashed in rain and fog near Huntington, WV.
14 November 1977 → The "Andhra Cyclone" formed over the Bay of Bengal. The Super Cyclone would strike India on the 19th, killing over 10,000 people, with winds up to 125 mph and a storm surge of 16 feet.
14 November 1999 → Hurricane Lenny formed in the Caribbean and began moving in an unusual direction: eastward. Forecasters nicknamed the storm "left-handed Lenny".  http://www.srh.weather.gov/sju/?n=1999_lenny_vis_loop 
14 November 1921: During the afternoon hours, thunderstorms brought severe hail to portions of Alabama. The hail stones ranged from about the size of buckshot to as large as a baseball. The largest weighing as much as a pound.
14 November 1969: Apollo 12 was launched into a threatening gray sky with ominous cumulus clouds. Pete Conrad's words 43 seconds after liftoff, electrified everyone in the Control Center: "We had a whole bunch of buses drop out", followed by "Where are we going?" and "I just lost the platform." The spacecraft had been struck by lightning. Warning lights were illuminated, and the spacecraft guidance system lost its attitude reference.
A photo of a lightning bolt striking Apollo 12 and crane 
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The lightning bolt that struck Apollo 12 aloft also hit the crane and platform of the mobile launcher. Image courtesy from NASA.
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15 November 1900 → A lake effect snowstorm dropped 45 inches of snow in 24 hours at Watertown, NY.
15 November 1987 → Starting in 1987, for three straight years there were significant tornado outbreaks that occurred on November 15. Each outbreak included F3 strength tornadoes and affected at least three states.
15 November 1989 → Huntsville, AL was hit hard by a deadly F4 tornado. The tornado killed 21, injured 463, and caused damage costing upwards of $250 million.   http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hun/?n=huntsvilletornado1989
15 November 1996: One of the longest and most intense early season lake effect snow squall events came to an end over western New York, northeastern Ohio, and northwest Pennsylvania. Chardon, Ohio was buried under 68.9 of snow over a six day period. Edinboro, Pennsylvania checked in with 54.8 inches. 18.5 inches blanketed Cleveland, Ohio and 42 inches fell at Sherman, New York.
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This image courtesy from Storm Data.
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16 November 1958 → Tucson, AZ recorded 6.4 inches of snow on this date, marking one of the largest snowfalls ever for the city.
16 November 1999 → Hurricane warnings were in effect as late-season Hurricane Lenny was threatening Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Lenny was a Category 3 hurricane with top winds of 115 mph. Lenny was not only unusual because of its late-season strength, but because of its forward movement. Lenny was moving from west to east across the Caribbean. It was the first hurricane in recorded history to threaten Puerto Rico from the west. The unusual motion meant that some harbors normally protected from hurricanes were threatened.    
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/sju/?n=1999_lenny_nov17_2

16 November 1989: There was massive devastation at the Jones Valley School in Huntsville, Alabama after an F4 tornado plowed through the southern portion of the city. The tornado killed 21 people and injured 463 along its 18.5 mile path. Most of the deaths, injuries, and damage occurred along a one mile segment through a congested business area along Airport Road. At the school, which lost all of its second floor, classed had already let out for the day when the tornado struck, so there were 12 adults and 37 children in the building, all of whom survived by taking refuge on the lower level. Click HERE for more information from the NWS Office in Huntsville, Alabama.  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hun/?n=huntsvilletornado1989
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An aerial photograph of the damage: for reference, the road going diagonally from lower right to top middle is Airport Road. Image courtesy from the NWS Office in Birmingham.
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17 November 1869 → A train near Boston Corners, NY was blown off the tracks by high winds. The train crashed down a ravine and caught fire, killing 3 people.
17 November 1927 → An F2 tornado hit western Alexandria, VA and the eastern quadrants of the District of Columbia. It missed the Capitol by just nine blocks and damaged 439 buildings in the District. 150 people were injured by the tornado, and one person was killed by lightning.
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/055/mwr-055-11-0499a.pdf
17 November 2013 → An unusually powerful storm system spun up five dozen tornadoes from the Great Lakes to the Tennessee Valley. Two EF4 twisters struck Illinois, striking the communities of Washington and New Minden. Fortunately, timely forecasts and warnings kept the death count very low.  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/?n=17nov13  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/?n=survey1

17 November 1927: A tornado (at times to 260 yards wide) cut a seventeen-mile path across Alexandria, Virginia across the District of Columbia (Navy yard to Benning Rd. & 19th St. NE); and northeast to East Riverdale, MD. injuring 31 persons. The tornado struck the Naval Air Station where a wind gust of 93 mph was recorded.
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Row houses at 1216 - 1226 C St. SE, severely damaged by a tornado on Nov. 17, 1927. Image Courtesy from the Library of Congress. 
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18 November 1421 → 72 Dutch villages were swept away when waves from an intense storm system breached coastal dikes on the North Sea coast of the Netherlands. The flood killed 10,000 people.
18 November 1931 → Canada saw its highest sustained winds when speeds reached 125 mph in Quebec.
18 November 1955 → This day ended an early bitterly cold spell in Montana when the mercury finally rose above 0 for the first time in over 5 days. Helena experienced 138 consecutive hours of subzero temperatures, including a reading of 29 below zero, which surpassed by seven degrees their previous record for the month of November. Missoula broke their November record by 12 degrees with a reading of 23 below zero.
18 November 2008 → A strong tornado killed eight people in Molweni, South Africa, outside Durban. Cars were rolled, mud huts were completely scoured away, and brick houses were leveled.
18 November 1421: The notorious St. Elizabeth's flood occurred during the night of November 18, to November 19 in what now known as the Netherlands. A strong storm on the North Sea coast caused several dykes to break allowing the lower lands to flood. A number of villages around Dordrecht were lost, causing an estimated 6,000 casualties.
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The Hollandsche Waard during the St. Elisabeth flood, painting 1470 by Master of the Elisabeth panels now at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
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19 November 1798 → This marked the beginning of the Long Winter of 1789-99, as eighteen inches of snow fell in New York City on this date.
19 November 1921 → The Columbia Gorge ice storm finally came to an end after blocking the Columbia River Highway at The Dalles with 54 inches of snow, sleet, and glaze.
19 November 1981 → The Hubert Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, MN was damaged by the weight of heavy snow. Almost a foot of snow was reported, which weighed heavily on the newly-inflated roof, causing it to tear and collapse. After completely deflating, the rip was repaired, and the roof was re-inflated. The roof would collapse again a few more times, most recently on December 12, 2010 when 17 inches of snow fell.
19 November 1921: The Columbia Gorge ice storm finally came to an end. In Oregon, 54 inches of snow, sleet and glaze blocked the Columbia River Highway at the Dalles. Apart from traffic on the river itself, all transportation between Walla Walla WA and Portland OR came to a halt. Nine trains were stopped as railroads were blocked for several days.
19 November 1930: A rare estimated F4 tornado struck the town of Bethany, Oklahoma. This is one of only 3 violent tornadoes to have been documented to have occurred during the month of November in Oklahoma since 1900. Between 9:30 am and 9:58 am CST, it moved north-northeast from 3 miles west of the Oklahoma City limits, and hit the eastern part of Bethany. About 110 homes and 700 other buildings, or about a fourth of the town, were damaged or destroyed. Near the end of the damage path, 3.5 miles northeast of Wiley Post Airfield, the tornado hit the Camel Creek School. Buildings blew apart just as the students were falling to the floor and looking for shelter, and 5 students and a teacher were killed. A total of 23 people were killed and another 150 injured, with 77 being seriously injured. Damage estimates were listed at $500,000. Click HERE for more pictures from KOCO.com  www.koco.com/weather/nov-19-1930-bethany-tornado/29821960
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Tornado damage in Bethany, Oklahoma. Courtesy from KOCO in Oklahoma City.
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20 November 1900 → A major tornado outbreak struck Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas, including two F4s. In Tunica County, MS an F4 tornado killed 15 people and threw the bodies half a mile downstream. Another F4 tornado was heading right for the center of Columbia, TN, but turned to the north at the last minute and grazed the northwest side of town. Still, 27 people lost their lives homes were "turned into kindling wood." Unpicked cotton was stripped from the stalks and deposited upon trees making them appear to be covered with snow.
20 November 1944 → "Darkness at Noon." After a decade of drought, dust storms frequented Australia. On this day a thick dust blanketed Mildura for eight hours, and the railway lines to Balranald and Moulamein were blocked by sand.
20 November 1979 → A blizzard struck Cheyenne, WY producing a record 19.8 inches of snow in 24 hours, and a record total of 25.6 inches in 40 hours. Strong winds created huge drifts stopping all transportation.
20 November 1985: Kate intensified to a major Category 3 Hurricane and as she moved west of Key West, Florida with top winds of 115 mph and a minimum central pressure of 954 millibars or 28.17 inches of mercury. The next day Kate made landfall between Panama City and Apalachicola, Florida. Tides ran 8 to 10 feet above normal. Many houses were damaged by fallen trees. Many power poles and lines were downed. Several roads were washed out.
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Hurricane Kate from NOAA 9 on November 20, 1985.
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Hurricane Kate storm track.
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Hurricane Kate damaged cars - Tallahassee, Florida
Credit this photo: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, https://floridamemory.com/items/show/14095 Members of Florida State's Delta Tau Delta fraternity had a difficult time getting to their cars following Hurricane Kate's visit to the capital city. 

20 November 2014: From the NWS Office in Buffalo, New York, "the epic November 17-19th 2014 lake effect event will be remembered as one of the most significant winter events in Buffalo's snowy history. Over 5 feet of snow fell over areas just east of Buffalo, with mere inches a few miles away to the north. There were 13 fatalities with this storm, hundreds of major roof collapses and structural failures, 1000s of stranded motorists, and scattered food and gas shortages due to impassable roads. Numerous trees also gave way due to the weight of the snow, causing isolated power outages. While this storm was impressive on its own, a second lake effect event on Nov-19-20 dropped another 1-4 feet of snow over nearly the same area and compounded rescue and recovery efforts. Storm totals from the two storms peaked at nearly 7 feet, with many areas buried under 3-4 feet of dense snowpack by the end of the event." Click HERE for more information. http://www.weather.gov/buf/lake1415_stormb.html
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Click HERE for photos from Syracuse.com  http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/11/buffalo_snow_photos_video_lake_effect.html
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21 November 1992 → An F4 tornado made a 128 mile trek across Mississippi striking the cities of Florence and Brandon. In Rankin County, there were 10 fatalities and 98 injuries, mostly in Brandon.  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/?n=1992_11_21_22_tor
21 November 1994 → Hurricane Gordon caused 1,122 deaths in Haiti, mostly in mudslides. Eight died when Gordon came ashore in Florida as a category 1 with winds of 85 mph. Over 14 inches of rain fell at Fort Lauderdale. The storm caused an estimated damage of $400 million in the US alone.  http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/gordon1994.html
21 November 1798: The infamous Long Storm sweeps across the northeastern US spreading deep snow from Maryland to Maine. The storm dumps a foot of snow on New York City and New Haven, and as much as three feet on Maine and New Hampshire. Storm opens the famous Long Winter of 1798-99 which continues to drop snow on the region as late as May.
21 November 1992: The November 21st - 23rd tornado outbreak was the 3rd largest outbreak in recorded history and one of the longest continuous outbreaks ever recorded. There was no break in tornado activity from 1:30 pm on the 21st when the tornadoes started in Texas until 7:30am on the 23rd, when the last tornadoes lifted in North Carolina. On this date, severe thunderstorms spawned 6 tornadoes within 70 minutes in the Houston metro area in Texas. At one time, there were three on the ground in Harris County. The strongest, an F4, tracked 20 miles through the eastern suburbs of Houston destroying 200 homes and damaging 1,000 more. In total, 23 tornadoes struck Mississippi and Alabama. An F4 tornado killed 12 people on a 128-mile track through 7 Mississippi counties. The deadliest tornado of 1992, an F4 tornado killed 12 people on a 128 mile track through 7 counties in Mississippi, one of the bodies was blown a quarter mile into a tree. Click HERE for more information from the NWS Office in Jackson, Mississippi.  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/?n=1992_11_21_22_tor
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Image courtesy from the NWS office in Jackson, Mississippi.
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22 November 1992 → Indiana was struck by 15 tornadoes. One, an F4 multiple vortex twister, cut a 22-mile path through extreme southeastern Indiana and northern Kentucky. From Indiana to Alabama and Texas to North Carolina the storm system produced 94 tornadoes, 26 deaths, and 640 injuries.  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/?n=nov22_1992tor
22 November 1993 → Thanksgiving in South Dakota was hampered when a massive storm dumped between two and three feet of snow just three days before the holiday.
22 November 2012 → 100 vehicles were involved in a massive chain-reaction accident during extremely foggy conditions on I-10 southwest of Beaumont, TX. Two people were killed and 80 injured.
22 November 1992: 45 tornadoes touched down in the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. Georgia was hard hit with two F4, one F3 and three F2 tornadoes that killed 6 people and injured 144. Indiana had a total of 15 tornadoes on this day to set a record for an outbreak in November and for the month of November. One, an F4 multiple-vortex type, cut a 22-mile path through extreme southeastern Indiana and northern Kentucky. This tornado debunked the myth that twisters don't cross rivers, as this devastating tornado crossed the Ohio River twice. Indiana had a total of 15 tornadoes on this day to set two state records, the largest November tornado outbreak and the most tornadoes in November. This tornado outbreak made a significant contribution to what was to become the biggest November ever for the U.S. in terms of number of tornadoes.
22 November 2010: A rare November ice storm prompts Fairbanks officials to advised residents to stay off the roads. Ice storm advisories are hoisted across a 950 mile stretch of the state that extends from Anchorage to Nome. The 0.39 inches of rain which falls at Fairbanks rates as that city's greatest November rainfall since November 1936.
Ice storm unprecedented in Interior Alaska, meteorologists say
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This infra-red satellite image from 11/22/2010 shows a stream of moisture from the North Pacific up to the Arctic coast of Alaska.
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23 November 1981 → Normally England sees about thirty tornadoes a year. However, on this date 105 twisters tore across the country over a space of five hours. The strongest was an F2. It remains Europe's largest outbreak.
23 November 1992 → Alta, UT was buried under 45 inches of snow in 24 hours.
23 November 1997 → Six elephants were killed by lightning in Kruger National Park in South Africa apparently while they were huddled together seeking shelter from a sudden storm. Burn marks indicated the lightning was conducted through all six while they were standing against each other. 
23 November 1912: The Rouse Simmons was a three-masted schooner famous for sinking during a violent storm on Lake Michigan on this day. The ship was bound for Chicago with a cargo of Christmas trees when it foundered off the coast of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, killing all on board.
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A photograph taken of the Rouse Simmons "The Christmas Tree Ship". It is suspected to be the last photograph of the ship before it sunk in November 1912. The caption on the photograph states that it was published in the Marine Review in 1913 making it in the public domain in the United States.
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24 November 1863 → The Battle Above the Clouds at Lookout Mountain was fought as part of a three day struggle near Chattanooga, TN. A fog descending into the valley could be seen from atop the mountain and obscured parts of the battlefield. Union forces, which outnumbered Southern troops, fought to a victory.  http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_chattano_1.html
24 November 2001 → Thirty-six tornadoes touched down in Alabama, setting a record for the number of tornadoes in a single day for the Crimson State. An F4 destroyed homes in Altoona.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_11242001
24 November 1863: The "battle above the clouds" was fought on Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga. Pre-frontal clouds obscured the upper battlefield aiding a Union victory.
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In 1864 artist James Walker completed a painting commissioned by the federal government of the action of November 24, 1863, which he called "The Battle of Lookout Mountain." Today the painting hangs in the Visitors Center near the entrance to Point Park.

24 November 1982: Hurricane Iwa, a Category 1 hurricane, impacted the Hawaii Islands of Ni'ihau, Kaua'i, and O'ahu with gusts exceeding 100 mph and a storm surge of 30 feet. The first significant hurricane to hit the Hawaiian Islands since statehood in 1959, Iwa severely damaged or destroyed 2,345 buildings, including 1,927 houses, leaving 500 people homeless. Damage throughout the state totaled $312 ($765 million 2015 USD). One person was killed from the high seas, and three deaths were indirectly related to the hurricane's aftermath.
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Hurricane Iwa passing near the Hawaiian Islands on November 24, 1982. Image Courtesy from NASA.
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 Hurricane Iwa storm track.
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25 November 1926 → A large tornado outbreak struck from Missouri to Alabama, including two F4's. In Heber Springs, AR 145 homes were damaged or destroyed and 17 people were killed.
25 November 1950 → Michigan beat Ohio State 9-3 in the "Blizzard Bowl" in Columbus, OH. The morning temperature was 5 degrees with 40-mph wind gusts. Driving snow shrouded the players on the field. The intense storm swept from the Great Lakes to the Appalachians.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/iln/climo/summaries/snowbowl.php
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25 November 1993 → The Thanksgiving Day game between the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins was memorable because of the heavy sleet that covered the field at Texas Stadium during the game. Miami won the game with a score of 16 to 14.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=thesleetbowlnovember25th,1993
25 November 2003 → A deadly accident happened on Lake Mai-Ndombe in the Congo when a ferry broke apart during a terrible storm, killing 163 of the nearly 400 on board.
25 November 1703:  The greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish in the mighty gale, most of them sailors of the British fleet. The storm continued through December 2nd. It was reported that 4,000 oaks perished in the New Forest and an attempt to count the toll of trees in Kent gave up at 17,000. At sea, the Eddystone Lighthouse was swept away and six people were killed. Daniel Defoe wrote a journal called The Storm (1704) about this event. The Storm has been called the first substantial work of modern journalism.
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Cover page of The Storm by Daniel Defoe.
25 November 1950: Called the "storm of the century" this storm impacted the eastern part of the US, killing hundreds and causing millions of dollars in damages. New York City recorded a 94-mph wind gust and Bear Mountain, just north of the city recorded a 140 mph gust. Record low temperatures were reported on the southern end of this storm in Tennessee and North Carolina. This storm was unique as Pittsburgh saw 30 inches of snow, while Buffalo saw 50 degrees with 50 mph wind gusts. Click HERE for more information from the New England Historical Society.
http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/great-appalachian-storm-1950/
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Surface weather analysis of Great Appalachian Storm on 26 November 1950.
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LaGuardia Airport was severely flooded by a Nor'easter on November 25, 1950. Image courtesy from Queens Borough Public Library.
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Volunteers stand ready to sweep the goal line throughout the Ohio State and Michigan football game on November 25, 1950. Click HERE for more information from Ohio State University.  https://library.osu.edu/projects/OSUvsMichigan/snowbowl.html
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26 November 1983 → A major snowstorm hit from Colorado to Wisconsin from the 26th to the 28th. One to two feet of snow was reported with Sydney, NE observing the most with 27 inches. Blizzard conditions prevailed with wind gusts as high as 60 mph. Limon, CO reported near zero visibility in snow and blowing snow for a solid 24 hours.
26 November 2001 → Hurricane Olga reached hurricane status in the western North Atlantic and became the 3rd named storm in November, the record for the month.  http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/prelims/2001olga1.gif
26 November 2007 → Today's football game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Miami Dolphins was one of the lowest scoring games of all time: the Steelers won 3-0 in the last 17 seconds. The NFL contributed the low score to the (...weather?).  See http://www.weather.gov/pbz/mudbowl
26 November 2007 → Today's football game between Pittsburgh and Miami was a low scoring game. The Steelers won 3 to 0 in the last 17 seconds. The low score was caused by muddy conditions brought on by a day-long rain and lightning delay. 
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=monday_night_mudder
26 November 2007  Lightning and heavy rain delay the start of the Monday Night Football game at Pittsburgh's Heinz Field between the Miami Dolphins and the Pittsburgh Steelers by 25 minutes. The muddy field conditions contribute to one of the lowest scoring NFL games won by the Steelers, 3-0. The teams combined 375 yards and the winning field goal occurred with 17 seconds left in the game.
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27 November 1701 → Anders Celsius, the astronomer who invented the Celsius thermometer scale, was born in Uppsala, Sweden.
27 November 1703 → The Great Storm of 1703 devastated southern England. Though strong gales buffeted the region from November 24 through December 2, the storm hit its peak on the morning of November 27. Winds to 120 mph blew down chimneys and church steeples, destroyed buildings, and felled countless thousands of trees. Four hundred windmills were shattered.
27 November 1892 → An Atlantic coastal storm produced a record 18.6 inches of snow at Norfolk, VA in 24 hours. The storm also brought snow to northern Florida for the first time in 35 years.
27 November 1898 → The SS Portland passenger ship gave the name to the "Portland Gale" after the storm sunk the ship off the coast of Cape Cod, killing all 200 people aboard.
27 November 1912 → Snow fell across northern Florida, marking one of the few times it has ever snowed there in November.
27 November 1701 Anders Celsius, the astronomer who invented the Celsius, often called the centigrade thermometer scale was born on this date.
27 November 1898 A powerful storm, known as the "Portland Gale" impacted the coastal areas of New England on November 26 - 27, 1898. The storm formed when two areas of low pressures merged off the coast of New Jersey and travelled up the east coast. This storm produced hurricane force winds in Nantucket and sank more than 150 boats and ships. Click HERE for information on some boats that sunk from this event.  
http://www.hazegray.org/features/1898gale/
Daily weather map on November 27th, 1898 at 8 AM.  
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28 November 1905 → Sailors on the ship SS Mataafa that got stuck 100 yards off the shore of Lake Superior near Duluth, MN froze to death.
28 November 1941 → 347 houses were damaged or destroyed by a tornado in Toyohashi, Japan, southwest of Tokyo. A dozen people were killed.
28 November 1960 → A winter storm produced 20 to 40 foot waves on Lake Superior near Duluth. Duluth was buried by a foot of snow whipped by 70 mph winds. Property along the north shore of the lake was flooded and battered by high winds. Thousands of cords of hardwood were washed into the lake and up to 3 feet of water flooded the main street of Grand Marais, MN.
28 November 1979 → A sightseeing tour of Antarctica turned into tragedy as a DC-10 filled with 237 passengers and 20 crewmembers crashed into the slopes of Mount Erebus. Low clouds and whiteout conditions forced pilots to rely on instrumentation and an incorrect flight plan which flew the plane into the side of Mount Erebus.
28 November 1921:  New England was in the midst of a four-day ice storm, their worst of record. Ice was more than three inches thick in many places following the storm, and property damage was in the millions of dollars. Northern New England received heavy snow with more than two feet reported in some areas. Overnight freezing rains continued through the day at Worcester, MA while the wind increased to a gale. Streets become impassable even on foot, and whole towns were plunged into darkness without communication. The storm caused 20 million dollars damage to power lines, telephone lines and trees.
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29 November 1803 → Christian Andreas Doppler, who identified the Doppler Effect, was born in Salzburg, Austria.
29 November 1992 → The most intense tornado recorded in Australia was an F4 which occurred at Bucca, Queensland. Nine homes were extensively damaged or destroyed, but no one was seriously injured. Four inch hail was also associated with this storm.
29 November 1998 → The morning low in Rochester, MN of 54 degrees was actually higher than the previous record high for the date. The temperature would reach 62 degrees during the day, smashing the old record of 53 degrees.
29 November 1896:  The mercury plunged to 51 degrees below zero at Havre Montana. It marked the culmination of a two week long cold wave. A stagnate high-pressure area similar to those over Siberia during the winter was the cause. During the month of November temperatures across Montana and the Dakotas averaged 15 to 25 degrees below normal. Aberdeen's (SD) low temperature on this day was 25 degrees below zero. The average temperature for the month was 9.7 degrees, or 19.6 degrees below normal.
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29 November 1991: A tornado struck southeast Springfield, Missouri, causing F4 damage. Shortly after touchdown, the tornado reached F3 intensity, approximately 3 miles north of the town of Nixa. While crossing Highway 65, the tornado picked up a truck and dropped it onto a frontage road, killing one passenger and injuring ten others. The tornado intensified to F4 strength as it moved through the Woodbridge and Natural Bridge Estates subdivisions where 15 homes were destroyed. Altogether, two people were killed and 64 others were injured.
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30 November 1962 → Fog played an integral role in the crash of an Eastern Airlines jet in New York City (JFK) that killed half of the people onboard (25 of 51).
30 November 1991 → Minneapolis ended the month with 46.9 inches of snow, the most ever for any month. Although the official start of winter was still 3 weeks away, the city had already surpassed the normal seasonal snowfall with 55.1 inches since October 1. The normal for the entire winter is 49.2 inches.
30 November 2001 → For the first time in 122 years of weather records, Buffalo, NY finished the entire month of November without any snowfall.
30 November 1925:  An extremely rare late November hurricane began to affect the west coast of Florida as it strengthened during the day. The storm made landfall very early on December 1st south of Tampa Bay, weakened to a tropical storm as it crossed central Florida, and exited around St. Augustine. The storm regained Hurricane strength off Jacksonville late on the 1st. Heavy rain continued over northeast Florida on the 2nd. Gale force winds were reported from the Keys to Jacksonville and over 50 people lost their lives, mostly on ships at sea. Damage along the coast south of Jacksonville was heavy and excessive rain and wind seriously damaged citrus and truck crops.
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Surface weather map of former Hurricane Four on December 1, 1925.
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Hurricane Four storm track.
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30 November 2010:  Tornado outbreak across the South that included Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.   In central Alabama six weak tornadoes were reported that were rated either EF-0 or EF-1. -- No casualties were reported.  see 
http://www.weather.gov/bmx/event_11302010 

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/abr/scripts/wxhistory.php?data=nov30
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See also From MPX "This Day in Weather History"  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mpx/WxHistory.php
New version: From MPX "This Day in Weather History"  http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory 
This "Day in Weather History" contains come memorable weather events and trivia from 1805 to the present day for much of Minnesota and west central Wisconsin. Many sources were used to research and compile the data. The Twin Cities/Chanhassen National Weather Service would especially like to thank the Minnesota State Climatology Office and its contributors for their input into this database.
November 1
1 November 2000: An F1 tornado touched down on a farm east of Prinsburg in Kandiyohi County destroying a small storage shed. It also tipped another shed on its side, and ripped off a portion of the roof of a third shed.
1 November 1999: High winds were reported in central Minnesota. The St. Cloud State University Meteorology Department in Stearns County recorded a 65-mph gust. The Morris AWOS in Stevens County posted a 62-mph gust and Willmar AWOS in Kandiyohi County recorded a 59-mph gust. Area-wide sustained winds of 40 mph occurred, with gusts in the 45 to 50-mph range.
1 November 1991: Classes were canceled across the state due to the Halloween Blizzard. Three-foot drifts were measured across I-94 from the Twin Cities to St. Cloud.  The MSP Airport recorded its all-time record daily snowfall total of 18.5 inches.
See entry for date and for following day in  http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
as well as for previous day in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
See also http://www.weather.gov/dlh/1991halloweenblizzard 
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/journal/9110_31_Halloween_Blizzard.html
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/halloween-blizzard-1991
November 2
2 November 1938:  A tornado touched down at Nashwauk in Itasca County. Many livestock were killed.
2 November 1842:  A warm spell was reported at Ft. Snelling, where the temperature rose to 60 degrees.
November 3
3 November 1991: The Great Halloween blizzard ended with a total of 28.4 inches of snow at Twin Cities.
See entries for previous days in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory and http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
3 November 1956: Parts of central Minnesota experienced record high low temperatures in the upper forties to the lower fifties. Minneapolis, Farmington, Chaska, and Gaylord all had low temperatures of 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
3 November 1915:  One person was killed by lightning during a strong to severe thunderstorm in Chatfield, MN.
November 4
4 November 1982: 20 inches of snow fell in the Kabatogema area.
4 November 1901: With a high temperature of only 22 degrees and a low of 15 degrees, 175 boxcars of potatoes were in peril at the Minneapolis rail yard. Workers scrambled to move the rail cars full of tubers in roundhouses and transfer potatoes to refrigerated cars. Individual stoves had to be purchased on the spot for 59 remaining cars. Thankfully, most of the spuds were saved.
4 November 1853: Cold snap began at Ft. Snelling. The next four days had temperatures of 16 degrees or lower.
4 November 1727: The first outdoor celebration at the chapel of Fort Beauharnois on Lake Pepin was postponed due to "variableness of the weather."    
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Beauharnois
November 5
5 November 1941: A snowstorm hit southern Minnesota, with the heaviest snow at Fairmont.
November 6
6 November 1993: Heavy lake effect snow fell over the eastern portion of Lake of the Woods. 3-4 inches around Baudette.
6 November 1947: A snowstorm moved through Minnesota with high winds, causing a million dollars in damage.
November 7
7 November 1844: A large prairie fire raged at Fort Snelling, followed by more fires later on in the week.
November 8
8 November 1999: A November 'heat wave' impacted much of the state. Temperatures in the 70's and 80's were recorded in Minnesota with records shattered in many places. The Twin Cities had 73 degrees, while Canby saw 82.
8 November 1943: A severe ice storm hit the Twin Cities, and heavy snow fell over southwest Minnesota. One person died in St. Paul as a trolley car slid off the tracks and hit a pole. A Minneapolis man died shoveling snow. Many telephone poles were down due to the ice. Places like Worthington, Windom, and Marshall saw 14 to 16 inches of snow.
8 November 1870: The first storm warning for the Great Lakes was issued by the U.S. Army.
November 9
9 November 2003: Parts of west central and north central Minnesota received anywhere from 2 to 6 inches of new snow. Canby had the most at 6 inches and Benson measured 5 inches.
9 November 1977: A foot of snow fell in Western Minnesota. I-94 was tied up.
9 November 1850: The sky darkened at Ft. Snelling due to smoke from prairie fires.
 November 10
10 November 1999: Late season hail fell in Eden Prairie. Pea size hail (0.25 inch in diameter) up to one foot deep collected near storm drains near Hennepin Technical College and Hwy 212. Pea size hail about 4 inches deep was also reported on grass near Hwy 5 and Mitchell Rd. The hail and torrential rains forced drivers off the road in Bloomington.
10 November 1998: A potent storm nick-named a "land hurricane" set a new all time record low pressure for Minnesota around noon at Albert Lea and Austin as it passed overhead. The automated weather observing equipment at both airports measured a barometric pressure of 28.43 inches, which broke the previous record of 28.55 inches set on 11 January 1975 in Duluth. The new record for the Twin Cities was set with a reading of 28.55 inches. The previous record was 28.77 inches, set on April 13th of 1964. 10 inches of snow fell at Madison, MN and St. Cloud State University had a wind gust to 64 mph.
Check "Record Breaking Storm - November 10, 1998" from Minnesota Climatology Working Group http://climate.umn.edu/doc/journal/981110.htm
See also entries for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history and
http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
10 November 1975: The Edmund Fitzgerald sank off Whitefish Bay with the loss of 29 people.
See also entries for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history and
http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
10 November 1913: A severe windstorm occurred on Lake Superior. Three ships were lost. Winds were clocked at 62 mph at Duluth.  
See entry for 10 Nov 1913 in  http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
November 11
11 November 1940: The "Great Armistice Day Blizzard" killed 49 people in Minnesota. Food dropped by Pilot Max Conrad saved stranded hunters. The barometer fell to 28.66 inches at Duluth. Some roads were so badly blocked with snow they weren't opened until Nov. 22.
Check Max Conrad of Winona, MN in  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Conrad and discussion in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Armistice_Day_Blizzard
https://www.weather.gov/arx/nov111940personal
https://www.nrafamily.org/articles/2016/4/20/the-day-the-duck-hunters-died/
See entries for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history and 
http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
November 12
12 November 2000: A winter storm system produced a narrow band of heavy snow across extreme western Minnesota. Winds toward the end of the event were clocked between 15 and 25 mph, resulting in blowing snow resulting in reduced visibilities of 1 to 1.5 miles. Some snow totals included: Canby (Yellow Medicine County) with 6.5 inches, Madison (Lac Qui Parle County) with 6.0 inches.
12 November 1940: Record low high temperatures were set in west central Minnesota. Alexandria had a high of 8 degrees Fahrenheit, Springfield and Willmar had highs of 10 degrees, and St. Cloud and Minneapolis had highs of 11 degrees.
See the other entries from previous day for the Armistice Day Storm 
12 November 1933: A dust storm hit southwest Minnesota, while a blizzard raged in the northwest part of the state.
November 13
13 November 1986: Lakes were frozen over throughout much of the state, reaching as far south as Winona.
13 November 1938: A snowstorm developed across northern Minnesota. The barometer fell to 29.31 inches of mercury in Duluth.
13 November 1933: The first Great Dust Bowl Storm occurred. The sky darkened from Minnesota and Wisconsin to New York State.
November 14
14 November 2002: A magnitude 7.9 earthquake in Alaska turned some water in wells black in southeast Minnesota due to magnesium particles that were shaken loose.
14 November 1996: An ice storm moved through much of central and southern Minnesota and west central Wisconsin. Schools closed or began late over much of southern Minnesota the morning of the 15th due to a 1/2 inch thick layer of ice that covered much of the area. Flights were canceled at Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport due to ice forming on airplanes and runways, however mainly sleet was reported in the Twin Cities.
14 November 1987: Warm enough to still golf, fish, and windsurf in central and southern Minnesota.  (not listed in 2017)
14 November 1833: A spectacular meteor shower is witnessed at Ft. Snelling.  
(See discussion of Leonid meteor shower from http://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_Nov_13  link
esp. https://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/history.html ) 
November 15
15 November 1976: So far this year over three thousand forest fires had been reported in Minnesota.
November 16
16 November 1933: Record low temperatures were set in a few locations including Farmington with a low of 11 degrees below zero, Little Falls at 10 degrees below zero, Chaska at 9 below and Milaca at 8 degrees below zero.
16 November 1931: A tornado touched down near Maple Plain in Hennepin County. The tornado damage path was five miles long.
November 17
17 November 1996: Six inches of snow fell in Douglas, Pope, and Stevens Counties.
17 November 1835: A strange night was observed at Ft. Snelling. Northern lights were seen over prairie fires.
November 18
18 November 1994: 58 to 69-mph wind gusts resulted in isolated damage to structures across south central and southeastern Minnesota. Some of the counties included were Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Rice, Steele, and Waseca.
18 November 1979: A heat wave continued in Southwest Minnesota. The temperature hit 70 degrees at Browns Valley.
November 19
19 November 1981: Heavy snow with near blizzard conditions was observed over parts of the state. A two-day total of 10.4 inches of snow was received at Minneapolis, which caused the inflated fabric of the Metrodome to collapse and rip.
19 November 1957: A snowstorm spread across Southeast Minnesota. A foot of snow was dumped at Winona. Heavy crop losses resulted.
See entries for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
and  http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
November 20
20 November 2006: Lake effect snow occurred on the larger lakes in Minnesota. Northwest winds from 8 to 12 mph accompanied an air mass in the single digits. This moved over lakes with water temperatures near 40 degrees. A cloud plume from Mille Lacs stretched all the way to Siren, Wisconsin. Snow from Ottertail and Lake Lida reduced visibilities at Alexandria to a few miles. Even some low clouds formed from Lake Minnetonka and were observed at Flying Cloud Airport.  (Note that this item was not included in Nov 2016 listing)
20 November 1996: Heavy snowfall accumulations of four to eight inches blanketed much of Central Minnesota. Some of the heavier amounts included 8 inches at Montevideo and Gaylord, along with 7 inches at St. James, Mankato, Madison and Stewart. Six inches were reported in the Twin Cities and Glenwood.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
and entry for 22 Nov 1996 in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
20 November 1953: Freezing rain hit parts of Minnesota. Three inches of ice accumulated on telephone wires at Lake Benton.
November 21
21 November 2001: Record high temperatures were set in west and north central Minnesota with highs in the upper fifties to lower sixties. Redwood Falls set their high with 68 degrees Fahrenheit and Little Falls had a high of 65 degrees.
21 November 1980: On this date, around 28 thousand Canadian geese spent their nights on Silver Lake in Rochester.
November 22
22 November 1996: Heavy snowfall accumulated over the same areas that were hit two days earlier. Four to seven inches of snowfall were reported across the area. Heavier snowfall occurred during the daylight hours of the 23rd. Snowfall totals of six inches were reported in the Twin Cities, Chanhassen, Stewart, St. James and Redwood Falls.
See entry for 20 Nov 1996 in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
See entry for 23 Nov 1996 in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
22 November 1970: Gale-driven snow fell across Minnesota as 45-mph winds were reported over Rochester and Duluth.
November 23
23 November 2003: New London and Little Falls both recorded 9 inches of new snow.
23 November 1983: Heavy snowfall accumulated over most of central Minnesota with snowfall totals from 4 inches to almost 1 foot. Minneapolis received 11.4 inches of snow, while Farmington had 11 inches.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
23 November 1954: Very strong (gale force?) winds over Minnesota led to considerable damage in downtown Wadena.
November 24
24 November 1993: The Thanksgiving Day Blizzard of 1993. Central and Western to South Central Minnesota were affected by a slow moving storm system that traveled across the Upper Midwest during the Thanksgiving holiday causing heavy snow across most of Minnesota. Travel became extremely difficult if not impossible over west central Minnesota where over a foot of snow accumulated. A number of car accidents were reported and several community events were canceled. Snowfall in excess of six inches or greater occurred north of a line from Bricelyn (Faribault County) to the Twin Cities metro area. Counties affected by this storm include Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Chisago, Douglas, Faribault, Hennepin, Isanti, Kanabec, Kandiyohi, Lac Qui Parle, Martin, Mcleod, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Nicollet, Pine, Pope, Ramsey, Redwood, Renville, Rock, Sherburne, Sibley, Stearns, Stevens, Swift, Todd, Washington, Watonwan, Wright, and Yellow Medicine.
See entry for 25 Nov 1993 in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory 
24 November 1983: A snowstorm dumped almost two feet at Babbitt and about 20 inches at Duluth.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
24 November 1825: A warm spell began over Ft. Snelling. The temperature rose up to 70  degrees. 
November 25
25 November 1977: Record low temperatures were set across central Minnesota with lows in the teens below zero. Montevideo had the lowest temperature of 18 degrees below zero along with Long Prairie at 16 degrees below zero.
25 November 1820: Ft. Snelling was in the middle of a three-day blizzard that would dump nine inches of snow.
November 26
26 November 2001: A strong low pressure system developed in Colorado on the 25th, reached eastern Iowa during the evening of the 26th, and then moved into eastern Wisconsin late on the 27th. It produced a wide swath of heavy snow across much of central Minnesota into West Central Wisconsin. Storm total snowfall of 8 inches or more was common, with a large area exceeding 20 inches.  Specifically, Willmar picked up 30.4 inches, New London saw 28.5 inches, Collegeville had 23.4 inches, Litchfield and Granite Falls received 22 inches, and Milan had 20 inches.   (Also 14 inches at Canby, 10.7 inches at Springfield, 11 inches at Long Prairie, 12.5 inches at New Hope, 15 inches at Milaca, 11 inches at Wild River State Park.) 
A convective snow band set up across this area on the 27th and remained nearly stationary for over 12 hours, resulting in the extreme storm totals. From 8 am on the 26th to 8 am on the 27th, Willmar received 21 of its 30.4 inches, setting a record for most snowfall in Willmar in a 24-hour period. Visibilities were frequently below 1/4 mile during the storm, and winds remained in the 15 to 30-mph category.  The heavy wet snow downed numerous power lines, and at one point, at least 20,000 customers were without power in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Over one thousand traffic accidents were noted across the entire area. Most were minor, but one accident claimed two lives when a car spun out and collided with a semi near Mora.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
26 November 1995: A narrow band of five to eight inches of snow fell from west central Minnesota around Canby and Granite Falls to east central Minnesota. This snow band included much of the Twin Cities metro area.
26 November 1965: A snowstorm developed across northern Minnesota. 14.7 inches of snow fell at Duluth, along with 13.6 inches at Grand Rapids.
26 November 1896: A severe Thanksgiving Day ice storm developed over southwest and central Minnesota. 1.42 inches of freezing rain fell at Bird Island, and 1.20 inches of freezing rain fell at Montevideo. The ice caused a great deal of damage to trees and shrubs.
November 27
27 November 2005: In the early morning a home in Mower County was hit by lightning and burned to the ground, but no one was injured.
27 November 1994: A low pressure system had developed into the first winter storm of the season for Minnesota. By the early morning hours of the 28th, a swath of snow in excess of 6 inches had blanketed much of southwest through central into northeast Minnesota. Snowfalls of 6 inches or more occurred south of a line from Gunflint Lake in Cook County to near Ortonville in Big Stone County and along and north of a line from near Blue Earth in Faribault County to Red Wing in Goodhue County. The snow closed the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for a short time on the 27th, and contributed to hundreds of accidents and at least three fatalities. In addition, the build-up of ice and snow in combination with strong winds resulted in numerous downed power lines in southeast Minnesota.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
27 November 1985: Extreme cold hit northern Minnesota. A low temperature of 30 degrees below zero was reported at Crookston.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
27 November 1971: Heavy snow fell in southwest Minnesota, with Redwood Falls receiving a foot.
November 28
28 November 1998: The morning low in Rochester, MN of 54 degrees was actually higher than the previous record high for the date. The temperature would reach 62 degrees during the day, smashing the old record of 53 degrees. (Note: This entry not included in Nov 2016.)
28 November 1983: Widespread snowfall occurred across much of central Minnesota with snowfall totals at or above 1 foot in many areas. A record 15 inches fell in Gaylord and 14 inches fell in Farmington.
See entry for date in  http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
28 November 1960: A major storm produced near hurricane force winds on Lake Superior, with 20 to 40-foot waves on the lake. Erosion and damage occurred on the North Shore. 
See entry for date in  http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history 
November 29

29 November 1991: Parts of central Minnesota received heavy snow including a record 16 inches of snow in New Ulm.
29 November 1835: A low temperature of 11 degrees below zero was reported at Ft. Snelling.
November 30
30 November 2006: Lake effect snow occurred downwind of the larger lakes in Minnesota. Northwest winds from 8 to 12 mph accompanied an air mass with temperatures in the single digits that moved over lakes with water temperatures near 40 degrees. A cloud plume from Mille Lacs stretched all the way to Siren, Wisconsin. Snow from Ottertail Lake and Lake Lida reduced visibilities at Alexandria to a few miles. Even some low clouds formed from Lake Minnetonka and were observed at Flying Cloud Airport.
30 November 2000: A surface low pressure system moved over extreme southwestern Minnesota from South Dakota and continued southeast into northern Iowa during the evening hours on the 30th. The heaviest snow reported was in the 6 to 8-inch range, and fell in a narrow band just southwest of the Minnesota River in and around the Canby (Yellow Medicine County) and Madison (Lac Qui Parle County) areas. Northeast winds rising out of the Minnesota river valley up the slopes of the Buffalo Ridge in southwest Minnesota helped enhance snowfall amounts. The northeasterly winds between 10 and 20 mph were responsible for producing visibilities in the one to two-mile range.
30 November 1991: A storm dumped 14 inches of snow in the Twin Cities in about 12 hours.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
30 November 1896: Bitterly cold temperatures were reported across Minnesota. A low of 45 degrees below zero occurred at the Pokegama Dam.
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MQT Today in History http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
This "Day in Weather History" contains memorable weather events for much of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Many sources were used to research and compile the data.

November 1
1924: On November 1, 1924, the wood, bulk freighter Glenlyon, while carrying 143,000 bushels of wheat, was heading for shelter in a gale, when she grounded on a reef at Siskiwit Bay, Menagerie Island, Isle Royale in Lake Superior and was holed. Initially damage was light, but a series of storms which followed destroyed her.
1867: On November 1, 1867, the wood schooner Maple Leaf, while carrying lumber, was reported ashore on either Detroit Island or Pilot Island, WI Death's Door in Lake Michigan and a total loss because of a gale. She was later stripped of her outfit and abandoned.
1913: On November 1, 1913, the wood schooner, 2-mast Harvey Ransom was sheltering from a storm under the bluff when a wave picked her up and dropped her on a pound net stake, puncturing her hull and causing her to sink at Burnt Bluff, near Fayette, Michigan in the Big Bay de Noc in the bay of Green Bay.
1999: On November 1, 1999, a deep low pressure center (29.38 inches) passed just north of Lake Superior. Strong northerly winds on the back side of the low reached gusts to 45 knots over the Upper Peninsula counties along lake Superior. Isolated locations close to the lake had higher gusts that downed trees that blocked roads near Copper Harbor and Ontonagon. 
November 2
1870: On November 2, 1870, the wood schooner Mary M. Scott went ashore and broke up in a gale near Grand Island, Michigan in Lake Superior.
1989: On November 2, 1989, 20 inches of snow fell in Ironwood during a snow storm from November 1st-3rd.
1975: On November 2, 1975, record heat with a record high temperature of 66F at WFO Marquette.
1883: On November 2, 1883, the wood schooner, 3-mast Cecilia, while carrying wood, was abandoned 20 miles offshore of Port Arthur in Lake Superior in sinking condition after being disabled by waves caused by a gale. The crew made it to Port Arthur in her yawl. Her skipper spent many days looking for her remains. She had been bound Waiska Bay, Michigan, for Port Arthur, Ontario.
1889: On November 2, 1889, the wood schooner Francis Palms, while carrying iron ore, was bound Escanaba for Detroit, when she was driven ashore and pounded to pieces in a westerly gale at 3 miles NW of Gray's Reef, near Beaver Island. Her crew was taken off by the tug Gladiator, which also pulled in vain to try to rescue the boat.
1902: On November 2, 1902, the wood schooner, 2-mast Thomas C. Wilson, while carrying potatoes, was driven ashore in a gale near Egg Harbor, WI in the bay of Green Bay and disabled, then torn to pieces by wave and ice action the following winter.
1924: On November 2, 1924, the wood bulk freight Niko, while carrying lumber, foundered in a gale near Garden Island in the Beaver Islands Group in Lake Michigan, her crew being rescued by her tow barge, C.E. Redfern. She lay on bottom so that only the roofs of her deckhouses were exposed, and her crew clung to them for 6 hours until rescue was done. Redfern was then towed to Manistique by the 'G-tug' Illinois. 
November 3
1853: On November 3, 1853, the wood schooner Windsor, while carrying lumber mill provisions, went ashore in a gale and 'probably' a total loss at Pilot Island in the bay of Green Bay.
1893: On November 3, 1893, the wood schooner-barge M.R. Warner, while carrying timber, was the consort of steamer Superior, when she broke loose and went ashore in a gale after drifting halfway up the lake at Sand Island, near Bayfield in Lake Superior. She broke up the following March after several salvage attempts failed.
1989: On November 3, 1989, 46 inches of snow fell in Ironwood from Halloween through November 3rd in a long-lived snowstorm.
November 4
1869: On November 4, 1869, a northerly gale struck Marquette. This gale caused ships at anchor in the harbor to crash against each other and after the storm subsided, the bay was strewn with wreckage. The schooner W.W. Arnold left Marquette Harbor about 4 pm loaded with iron ore. A few hours later, a storm set in with blinding snow and a ferocious northwest gale. North of Marquette, tin sheathing was blown off the lighthouse on Granite Island. The ship never made it to the Soo Locks. In early December, a mail carrier spotted the hull of a vessel near the Two Hearted River and a search party found the wreck of the W.W. Arnold there. The crew of 9 crew and 2 passengers were encased in ice.
1975: On November 4, 1975, record heat continues at WFO Marquette with a record high temperature of 69F.
1877: On November 4, 1877, the wood schooner Josephine went aground and wrecked during a gale at Michigan Island, Apostle Islands group, WI in Lake Superior.
1874: On November 4, 1874, the wood schooner, 3-mast F. Morell, while carrying 617 tons of iron ore, drove ashore and wrecked in fog and big seas in a gale on the northwest corner of Grand Island, MI in Lake Superior. After being ashore a few days, she was reportedly broken up by a northeast storm on the 9th.
November 5
1975: On November 5, 1975, record heat continues at WFO Marquette with a record high temperature of 68F.
1925: On November 5, 1925, the wood schooner-barge, 2-mast J.L. Crane, while carrying pulpwood, was in tow of the steamer Herman H. Hettler. In huge waves and 80 mph gale winds, the Crane was seen to ride up on a big wave and dive to the bottom abreast of Crisp Point, MI, 1 mi offshore in Lake Superior, ripping out the towpost of Hettler. For several years her masts protruded above the surface. All 7 members of the crew perished.
1869: On November 5, 1869, the wood schooner, 2-mast Live Yankee, while carrying wheat, was bound Milwaukee for Buffalo, when she struck shore and sank to her decks on High Island Reef, Beaver Islands, MI in Lake Michigan during a gale. Her crew and a 14-year old girl passenger made it to shore in her yawl, where Indians took care of them. The steward later died of exposure. The grain cargo swelled, burst her hull and caused her to become a total loss. One person perished.
1883: On November 5, 1883, the wood scow-schooner Maria, while carrying lumber, went on the rocks at Hedgehog Harbor, WI in the bay of Green Bay in a gale and was expected to go to pieces.
1886: On November 5, 1886, the wood schooner, 2-mast M. Stalker, while carrying iron ore, was rammed and sunk by the schooner-barge Muskoka in tow of steamer Isaac May while lying at anchor off Mackinaw City 2.3 miles northeast of Old Mackinac Pt. Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron. May kept on going and Stalker's crew had to abandon her in her boat.
1908: On November 5, 1908, the wood schooner, 3-mast A.C. Maxwell had 20 feet of her bow sheared off by the big steel steamer R. W. England, which went out of control and struck her at Woolworth's Dock, Sault Ste. Marie, MI in the St. Mary's River on the Lake Huron side. Total loss and abandoned in place.
1940: On November 5, 1940, the steel, bulk freight Sparta, while carrying iron ore, was driven ashore by a gale and broke her back at Mosquito Beach, 14 miles from Munising, MI in Lake Superior. Partially scrapped in place, the remains of her hull were later towed to Sturgeon Bay, WI for use as a drydock.
1993: On November 5, 1993, lake enhanced heavy snow began falling over the western Upper Peninsula around 1500 EST on the 4th, then continued in the Marquette area until about noon on Saturday the 6th. Over the rest of Upper Michigan, the significant snowfall ended by about 1900 EST Friday evening. The heaviest snowfall was near Marquette in north-central Upper Michigan, where 16.7 inches fell. 10.1 inches of that snow fell this day which was a record daily snowfall at WFO Marquette. Other reports of heavy snowfall included 12.0 inches in the Tahquamenon area of eastern Upper Michigan, 10.0 inches over part of Gogebic County and nine inches in parts of Ontonagon County. Most of the rest of Upper Michigan had between four to six inches of snow. Strong north winds of 15 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph caused considerable blowing and drifting of the snow. Many school districts canceled classes Friday in Marquette, Ontonagon and Gogebic counties. The Michigan State Police reported only minor accidents, even though the combination of strong winds and heavy snow caused near blizzard conditions at times.
1896: On November 5, 1896, the wood [iron-framed] Acadia, while carrying grain, was driven ashore and broken up by gale near the mouth of the Michipicoten River, Ontario in Lake Superior. Her crew made it to shore, and five of them spent more than week trying to make it to the Soo.
November 6
1975: On November 6, 1975, the latest 70F on record in Marquette with a high of 70F and a low of 51F at the Marquette waste water treatment plant.
1867: On November 6, 1867, the three-masted wooden schooner Albemarle which was carrying iron ore, sank in a gale at Point Nipigon in the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron. She was stranded and wrecked and was bound from Escanaba for Cleveland. A tug that was sent to rescue her a few days after the accident found her in a hopeless condition, but wreckers continued to work on her until she was finally abandoned in August 1868.
1865: On November 6, 1865, the wood schooner, 2-mast Flight, while carrying salt, went aground on Bois Blanc Island in the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron in a gale and was abandoned, but not before her cargo was mostly saved. Vandals destroyed her by fire in June of 1866.
1886: On November 6, 1886, the wood schooner Ellen Spry, while carrying 1100 tons of coal, was driven on Skillagallee Reef in Lake Michigan, where she struck bottom and went to pieces in a southwest gale. The value of the vessel and her cargo was about $28,000.
1988: On November 6, 1988, a powerful storm in the northern Great Lakes dropped 2 feet of snow along the shore of Lake Superior and 3 feet in the Porcupine Mountains of Upper Michigan. Marquette established a November record with 17.3 inches in 24 hours.
2007: On November 6, 2007, a wind gust of 58 mph was reported at the Munising ASOS. The Alger County Sheriff reported downed tree limbs and power lines from AuTrain to Munising. A strong cold front moved across Upper Michigan on the 5th producing lake enhanced snow and blowing snow over west and north central Upper Michigan. Gusty north winds in excess of 50 mph were also reported at several locations. Spotters reported six to eight inches of snow from Ironwood east to near Watersmeet. Wind gusts near 40 mph were also reported at the Ironwood AWOS. Six to eight inches of snow fell near Kenton/Sidnaw areas in 24 hours. 
November 7
1913: On November 7, 1913, the ore carrier L.C. Waldo loaded ore at Two Harbors and was headed northeast when they were hit by a northerly gale. About midnight, a huge wave slammed into the ship and ripped off the pilothouse nearly killing the captain. The ship had the steering gear severely damaged and the electrical system was gone. The huge waves continued to pummel the ship and the ship was sailing blind in a blizzard. Waves broke into the cabin housing the crew and they narrowly escaped being washed overboard. The captain hoped to make the east side of the Keweenaw to seek shelter. 
Also on cassette tape “Lake Superior Shipwrecks – Stories by Dr. Fred Wolff See also 8 and 10 Nov 1913. 
1975: On November 7, 1975, warm weather continued with a record high minimum temperature of 54F and record rainfall of 0.84 inch at WFO Marquette.
1885: On November 7, 1885, the luxury steel railway steamer Algoma was thought to be one of the sturdiest ships afloat, but she was blown aground, broken in two and destroyed by a gale at Greenstone Island near Isle Royale. Later she was pushed off the rocks and sunk. Bound Owen Sound for Port Arthur, Ont. Owned by Canadian Pacific Railway. 37 to 48 passengers perished.
Also on cassette tape “Lake Superior Shipwrecks – Stories by Dr. Fred Wolff See also 8 Nov 1913 entry.
1918: On November 7, 1918, the steel, bulk freighter Chester A. Congdon, while carrying wheat, went aground in fog at Canoe Rocks, Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Thought to be an easy salvage job, but a gale which followed, tore her to pieces and pushed her into deep water before she could be released. Largest vessel lost on the lakes up to that time.
1886: On November 7, 1886, the wood schooner Detroit, while carrying iron ore, was bound Escanaba for Cleveland, when she was driven on a reef by a gale and wrecked. Abandoned as a total loss. Place of wreck is in contention with sources saying either near Summer Island, Death's Door in Lake Michigan or another source says she was wrecked on Skillagallee Reef 75 miles further east in Lake Michigan.
1867: On November 7, 1867, the wood schooner Hanover was reported ashore and total loss near Strawberry Reef near Fish Creek, WI in the bay of Green Bay during a gale. She was stripped and abandoned the day after stranding. The reef at the site is still named 'Hanover Shoal'.
1868: On November 7, 1868, the wood schooner Walrus, while carrying 16,500 bushels of barley, was bound Chicago for Oswego, when she ran on Gray's Reef in a heavy fog, was holed and sank in an exposed position at Gray's Reef, northwest of Beaver Islands in Lake Michigan. She was broken up by wave action within a few days.
1873: On November 7, 1873, the wood schooner-barge Bessie Smith was carrying 1500 tons of iron ore. Soon after leaving Escanaba, her tow steamer J. Kelley became disabled, and the Smith raised her sails and towed the steamer back in. She then struck off on her own, but was overtaken by a storm. Picked up by the steamer Annie Young, she soon broke loose and was driven ashore at Beaver Island in Lake Michigan. Wreckers put the largest available pumps aboard to try to pump her out, but to no avail. As of the end of the season she was still on the beach. Usual consort of the steamer J. Kelley.
1914: On November 7, 1914, the wood schooner, 3-mast, lumber Resumption, while carrying lumber, struck bottom and settled in a gale off Plum Island, Death's Door, WI in Lake Michigan, then was pounded to pieces, despite the combined efforts of six steamers to save her.
1874: On November 7, 1874, the wood steam tug J.C. Keyes was torn from her dock during a gale in Duluth, MN and driven on the beach and wrecked. It was thought she could be salvaged, but she was finally given up in 1880.
1921: On November 7, 1921, the wood schooner, 3-mast Mary E. McLachlan foundered in a gale at Nipigon Bay (also shown as 'Mountain Bay') in Lake Superior. Some sources say 23 people perished.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
1892: On November 7, 1892, the wood schooner-barge, 3-mast, bulk freight G.M. Neelon broke from the tow of the steamer S.L. Tilley and struck the rocks in heavy seas at Gull Rock on the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior. She was abandoned to her underwriters, but was recovered by wrecker J.H. Gillett in November of 1893.
November 8
1913: On November 8, 1913, a severe snowstorm set in at Escanaba with heavy snow in Menominee accompanied by winds up to 70 mph and high waves on the bay of Green Bay. The tugboat Martin towing the barge Plymouth, left Menominee and Marinette in the afternoon bound for the Door Peninsula on the 6th. They ducked into the lee of St. Martin Island for protection from the southwest gale and stayed there through the 7th. The wind shifted to the northwest early in the morning on the 8th and forced them off their anchorage. The ensuing northwest gale made the tow difficult and the Martin began taking on water. The Martin cut the Plymouth free and then sought refuge on the south side of Summer Island. The Plymouth drifted helplessly and sank near Poverty Island with the loss of all 9 on board, six of the crew from the Marinette and Menominee area.
1913: On November 8, 1913, while seeking refuge behind the Keweenaw in a northwest gale, the ore carrier L.C. Waldo rammed bow first into Gull Rock which split the carrier in two and broke the steam pipes in the engine room. The crew of 22 men and two women were stranded in the forward section of the steamer. They were rescued 4 days later as the lifesaving crew struggled to rescue them. The ship was declared a total loss, but was later recovered and rebuilt. After the L.C. Waldo wrecked on Gull Rock off the Keweenaw Peninsula, the steamer George Stephenson passed close to the wrecked boat but couldn't make a rescue and anchored in Bete Gris Bay. They did send a crew member in a lifeboat to report the wreck of the Waldo and he waded through snow drifts and a blizzard 8 miles to Delaware where he phoned the lighthouse at Eagle Harbor to report the wreck which the news was relayed to the Eagle Harbor Lifesaving Station. They tried twice to attempt a rescue and couldn't get far in their boats. Gale winds to 60 mph were reported on Lake Superior. In another incident further up the lake, the steel, bulk freight, '3-island' Leafield, while carrying railroad rails and equipment, was overwhelmed by the huge storm [probably the most violent ever recorded on the lakes] and driven on the rocks 20 miles east of Thunder Bay, Ontario, near Angus Island in Lake Superior. Waves ripped up her bottom, then shoved her into deep water. All 18 crew members perished. 
Also on cassette tape “Lake Superior Shipwrecks – Stories by Dr. Fred Wolff See also 7 Nov 1913 entry.
1900: On November 8, 1900, the wood schooner-barge, bulk freight A.C. Keating, was carrying pulpwood. Her tow steamer City Of New York developed engine trouble in a gale and left her at anchor with 2 other barges. She slipped her hold on the bottom and was driven on a rocky shore 25 miles above Whitefish Point at Coppermine Point, Ontario in Lake Superior, where she broke up.
1901: On November 8, 1901, the wood schooner-barge, 2-mast Keweenaw was wrecked by a northerly gale blowing through the mouth of Grand Marais, MI harbor in Lake Superior. She was driven broadside on the beach and was later recovered, though she had been declared a total loss.
1888: On November 8, 1888, the wood, package freighter Laketon, while carrying lumber camp supplies, drove ashore in heavy weather during a gale 5 miles northeast of Grand Marais, MI in Lake Superior. The Lifesaving Service rescued her crew. Though reported as a total loss, the vessel later was saved as well.
1870: On November 8, 1870, the nation's brand new weather service issued its first storm forecast for the Great Lakes.
1906: On November 8, 1906, either on November 8th or the 14th, the wood, bulk freight Strathmore, while carrying grain, was bound Ft. William for Kingston, when she struck bottom in a gale near Michipicoten Island in Lake Superior and sank. Later burned and still later was pushed by a storm from the shallows to deeper water. It was said she 'had the habit of choosing her own course.'
1914: On November 8, 1914, the wood, bulk freight Oscoda, while carrying lumber, was bound for Chicago with the barges A.C. Tuxbury and Alice B Norris, when she was struck by a gale. She released the barges and went on a reef near Epoufette, MI in Lake Michigan. The steamer and barge crews and bystanders ashore made a combined successful effort to remove Oscoda's crew. She rolled off the bar and sank in a later storm. The barges were none the worse for wear.
2003: On November 8, 2003, a deep arctic air mass descending from central Canada moved over Lake Superior and Upper Michigan. Strong west winds pulling cold air across Lake Superior produced lake effect snow squalls over northeast Upper Michigan. Up to 10 inches of snow fell over parts of Luce County from around Pine Stump Junction to the Upper Tahquamenon Falls. 
November 9
1975: On November 9, 1975, the Wilfred Sykes and the Edmund Fitzgerald were both loading iron ore taconite pellets in Superior Wisconsin that morning. The Wilfred Sykes made the decision to take the northern longer route to transport ore which involved going north of Isle Royale because the captain didn't like what he saw in the weather charts and also from the advice of a private weather company that also saw a big northeast gale looming. The Edmund Fitzgerald sailed in the primary shipping lane and was joined by the Arthur M. Anderson, who had pulled out of Two Harbors, Minnesota. The wind had just started to pick up in western Lake Superior and was gusting to 50 knots in a northeast gale with building waves by midnight. The Wilfred Sykes had ducked behind Isle Royale and encountered huge waves as well with the waves clearing the bow and washing the pilothouse windows.
1900: On November 9, 1900, the wood schooner, 2-mast William Finch, was in the process of salvaging gear from the schooner Norma of the same fleet when she was wrecked in a gale near Egg Harbor, WI in the bay of Green Bay. Her crew was rescued.
1890: On November 9, 1890, the wood schooner Jessie, while carrying supplies, stranded and went to pieces while bound for a Les Cheneaux Islands lumber camp on the east end Bois Blanc Island in the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron during a gale.
1886: On November 9, 1886, the wood schooner Lafrinier, while carrying coal, struck Hog Island Shoal in the Beaver Islands in Lake Michigan in a gale and was wrecked. Her crew suffered great hardship before their rescue. Stripped on the 11th and pounded to pieces soon after, a total loss of about $15,000.
2005: On November 9, 2005, a few 10 inch diameter spruce trees were downed three miles west-southwest of Eagle Harbor. An intense low pressure system moving across northern Lake Superior generated damaging winds over northwest Upper Michigan. The following reports highlighted the event. 100 foot U.S. Coast Guard tower blown down in Keweenaw County with the antenna for tower also damaged. Total replacement cost for the tower and antenna was estimated at $150,000 by the U.S. Coast Guard. Several 10 inch diameter trees downed one mile north of Jacobsville in Houghton County. Wind gust was measured at 58 mph by a trained spotter in Ontonagon. Maximum wind gust measured at 66 mph by the Houghton County Airport ASOS. Several trees downed four miles southeast of Ontonagon. Three 8-12 inch diameter trees uprooted in Keweenaw Bay in Baraga County. A few 10 inch diameter spruce trees were downed three miles west-southwest of Eagle Harbor. Numerous trees downed along the waterfront from Whitefish Bay to the middle portion of the St Mary's River in Chippewa County. Very gusty west to northwest winds downed a number of trees and some power lines, especially in the shoreline counties along Lakes Superior and Michigan.
2011: On November 9, 2011, a moisture-laden low pressure system moving from the mid-Mississippi Valley into the Great Lakes region dropped heavy snow over portions of west and north central Upper Michigan from the 9th into the 10th. Eight inches of snow fell in Sundell over an 11-hour period. Around six inches of snow fell in a 24-hour period from Redridge to the Houghton-Hancock area. The wet heavy snow and over 30 mph northerly wind gusts resulted in nine power outages in the Houghton area that affected more than 3500 residences. The observer near Herman measured 13.1 inches of snow in 18 hours. The wet snow caused numerous minor accidents, sporadic power outages and some tree damage. Seven to eight inches of snow fell in less than 24 hours near Wakefield and Watersmeet. An estimated six inches of snow fell in less than 12 hours in Iron Mountain. The combination of wet snow and north wind gusts to 30 mph caused numerous minor accidents and power outages across the area. The National Weather Service in Negaunee Township measured 12.2 inches of wet heavy snow in less than 24 hours while the Ishpeming area measured around 10 inches. In addition to numerous minor accidents, the combination of wet snow and north wind gusts to 35 mph caused power outages and sporadic tree damage throughout Marquette County. The storm closed schools in Ishpeming, Negaunee and Marquette on the 10th.
November 10
1901: On November 10, 1901, the wood scow-schooner, 2-mast Emily Taylor, while carrying wood, was bound Arthur Bay for Green Bay, when she drove into the shallows of Heizer Bay, 20 miles north of Menominee, MI in the bay of Green Bay where waves broke completely over her all night in a gale. The captain had his wife and two children aboard, plus 2 sailors - all were rescued by local fishermen.
1998: On November 10, 1998, a deep low pressure system tracked northeast across western Lake Superior. Strong winds spread over Michigan's Upper Peninsula with sustained speeds of 30 to 40 mph and gusts as high as 87 mph. 23 years after the Edmund Fitzgerald sank, a nearly identical storm produced a strong gale again across Lake Superior. The 1998 storm was stronger than the 1975 storm, but tracked a bit further west. As strong winds pummeled Upper Michigan, the Ontonagon County Road Commission reported a gust to 94 mph. These high winds damaged businesses and homes, as well as blew down power lines and trees. Power was knocked out to parts of the U.P. from the strong winds. Sustained winds of 82 mph were reported on Mackinac Island with a peak gust to 95 mph. The peak gust was one of the highest ever recorded in Michigan. Trees and other debris were blown around the southeast tip of the U.P. with significant beach erosion west of Manistique. Property damage was $450,000 with crop damage at $10 million which was the value of timber lost in the Ottawa and Hiawatha National Forests. Damage was reported across the region with business signs blown down and roofs damaged as well as damage to homes, vehicles, utility poles, power lines and transformers from falling trees and branches. The strong winds even blew away a city's holiday decorations. Widespread power outages were reported due to downed trees and limbs across power lines. Some residents in rural areas of Delta and Schoolcraft counties were without power for up to three days following the storm as power companies struggled to clear downed trees and repair broken lines. The strong winds on Mackinac Island toppled several trees onto a condominium.
See also entries for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory and
http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
1975: On November 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald and Arthur M. Anderson captains decided to head towards the north and east Canadian shoreline to gain protection from the winds as the storm grew worse. The strong low passed near Marquette in the morning. The storm intensified with waves ripping the radar off the Edmund Fitzgerald and the ship sustained some top-side damage. The Edmund Fitzgerald later sank in Lake Superior north of the tip of Whitefish Point in the strong autumn gale while the Arthur M. Anderson made it to Whitefish Bay, had to turn around and look for survivors and found some wreckage, but no survivors among the 29 member crew of the Fitzgerald. Overwhelmed by 25-ft waves, 90-mph winds, the Edmund Fitzgerald broke apart and sank in deep water. Later remote control visits showed her twisted into pieces. Apparently she went down without much warning, but the single body that has been sighted was wearing a life jacket. The Edmund Fitzgerald is the longest and most capacious vessel ever lost on the lakes.
See feature in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/Edmund_Fitzgerald  
Also on cassette tape “Lake Superior Shipwrecks – Stories by Dr. Fred Wolff
See also entries for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory  and
http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
1913: On November 10, 1913, the steamer Cornell had a harrowing 78 hours in a gale on Lake Superior and ended up back where it started from. The Cornell left the Sault on the afternoon of the 7th heading for Two Harbors, Minnesota. They made it that evening to Whitefish Point expecting a southwest gale and got a light southeast wind. The Cornell encountered heavy northwest seas around midnight on the 8th with a southeast breeze. Early on the 8th, they encountered very high waves and a sudden violent wind shift to the north with blinding snow. They were 90 miles north of Whitefish Point and the winds and waves, despite having the engines on full, pushed them back south to near Deer Park 12 hours later. On the 9th, the Cornell tried to sail north and was south of Caribou Island when a strong northeast wind hit them. The boat battled the gale until on the 10th, high seas came over the aft of the boat with a wave estimated to be 40 feet high. This wave flooded the dining room and galley and broke doors and windows. In a separate incident, the ore carrier Henry B. Smith was loaded with ore at the Marquette ore dock despite the gale. The captain was in a hurry and left to go to the Sault as winds were easing. The crew was frantically rushing to finish battening down the hatches as the Smith left Marquette and then the gale came back up. The Smith was seen from the shore in the huge waves and then lost sight of in a blinding snow squall. The boat sank in the gale with all 25 crew members and the exact location of the wreck is still to be determined. Some wreckage from the boat washed up on shore on the beach 9 miles east of Marquette with an oar found, a pike pole and a piece of the deck house. The big storm on the Great Lakes wrecked many ships from the 8th-10th. 200 sailors died on Lake Huron which is the deadliest storm ever to strike the Great Lakes.  
Also on cassette tape “Lake Superior Shipwrecks – Stories by Dr. Fred Wolff See also 7-8 Nov 1913 entry.
See entry for 8 Nov 1913 in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
2010: On November 10, 2010, record heat at WFO Marquette with a record high temperature of 57F.
2006: On November 10, 2006, a storm system originating in the Plains moved into the Lower Great Lakes. This system brought a swath of heavy, wet snow to portions of south central Upper Michigan. Observers at Hardwood and just north of Iron Mountain measured nine inches of snow. Poor visibility and snowpacked highways were blamed for numerous traffic accidents during the storm. Six inches of snowfall was measured at Cooks in a 6-hour period.
November 11
1883: On November 11, 1883, a gale set in at Ontonagon. Heavy snow fell and ice formed on the Ontonagon River. Temperatures remained cold.
1852: On November 11, 1852, the wood brig, 2-mast E.H. Scott was reported ashore on Washington Island, WI in Washington Harbor in the bay of Green Bay during a gale and was a total loss.
1913: On November 11, 1913, both the Portage Lake Lifesaving Station and the Eagle Harbor lifesaving station rescued the crew of the L.C. Waldo. 10 crew members were rescued by the Portage Station and the 12 others were rescued by Eagle harbor. The steel bulk freight William Nottingham, while carrying wheat, was caught in the beginning of the 'Big Storm' of 1913, she fought the storm for so long that she used up her entire load of bunker coal, then burned up her furniture and wood trim, and lastly her cargo. Finally driven ashore at Sandy Island in eastern Lake Superior. Recovered at huge cost and repaired. 3 crew members perished. In another incident, the steel, bulk freight 'turret steamer' Turret Chief was upbound, she locked through the Soo before storm warnings were raised. She made it as far as the Keweenaw Peninsula, just west of Copper Harbor, but was driven aground with heavy damage. Thought to be a total loss, but recovered the next year.
See entries for earlier days 
1940: On November 11, 1940, vast tracts of timber were blown down in the gale across the eastern U.P. The south gale that developed over Lake Michigan caused huge waves with up to 50 foot waves reported from Chicago northward across the entire lake. The waves hit the southern U.P shoreline. A storm surge went all the way up the Little Bay De Noc with the water 8 feet above normal. This surge swept away a shack at the head of the bay in Rapid River drowning the inhabitant. The remains of the shack washed back ashore the next day. Gladstone had many rowboats in the harbor get piled together at the end of the storm that were encased in ice. A fishing tug was pushed out the harbor by the storm surge and left stranded on an adjacent roadway. Two other tugs were tossed 2,000 feet and left in the middle of a baseball diamond. A fishhouse was destroyed when it was heaved onshore. Many small boats were destroyed by the waves. With the storm surge, a lot of fish were beached near Gladstone. In Manistique, many windows were smashed. Flag poles were snapped like matchsticks and many trees were uprooted. One uprooted tree smashed a car between Nahma Junction and Ensign with no one injured in the car that had 4 occupants in it. Nahma had huge waves on the Big Bay De Noc which destroyed a dock that dumped several hundred tons of coal into the bay. The Bay de Noquet Lumber Company had a tramway undermined and piles of lumber were scattered over the property from the large waves. Large pine trees were blown over in Nahma and a number of buildings sustained damage. In Mackinaw City, the car ferry, City of Cheboygan was pressed into service because of hunting season approaching and to alleviate traffic congestion. The ferry had been in service a couple of days with railroad rails still not removed from its former job. There were about 6 cars on the deck and the ferry had to leave because of the strong winds. The cars were not tied down since the boat was new to ferrying. The cars got tossed around the deck because of the high waves and were smashed. The ship sustained some damage as well from the gale. Other ships anchored near Bois Blanc Island along with the Cheboygan to ride out the storm. One ship had a load of new cars on its deck which was common practice in those days. This ship rolled with the waves and even though the cars were tied down on the cargo hatches, some of them went overboard due to the waves. The 416 foot steamship Sinaloa had picked up a load of sand on a Door County Peninsula Island when it encountered the strong gale with gusts up to around 80 mph. The ship tried to anchor at Death's Door Passage near Washington Island when it got pulled northeast after its engines failed. The ship went aground first on the beach about a mile north of Fayette, then broke loose and slammed into a rock ledge at Sac Bay off the Garden Peninsula. The crew was eventually rescued by some local fishermen and also the Munising Coast Guard. The ship didn't sustain that much damage and was repaired about a month later. Other boats were wrecked on Lake Michigan with a total of 59 sailors dying in this storm.
See entries for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory and 
http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
1857: On November 11, 1857, the wood freighter City of Superior, while carrying miscellaneous household goods and livestock, was blinded by a blizzard and ran ashore at full speed at the mouth of Copper Harbor on Lake Superior, tearing her bottom out. Broke up in the gale the same night. Most of her freight was saved.
1913: On November 11, 1913, the schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast Halstead foundered in the 'Big Storm' of 1913 near Washington Island, WI in Lake Michigan and reported as a total loss. Later recovered. All aboard the ship perished. The wood, bulk freight Louisiana, while carrying light, was heavily battered by the famed 'Big Storm' of 1913, and she sought shelter in Washington Harbor on Washington Island, WI the night of the 10th while bound for Escanaba, but caught fire early the next morning and burned to a total loss. The wood schooner-barge, 2-mast, bulk freight Plymouth, while carrying cedar posts, was in tow of the tug James H. Martin in the 'Big Storm' of 1913. The Martin became disabled, left her (Plymouth) in the lee of St. Martin's island in Lake Michigan, where she was eventually overwhelmed and sunk. A note in a bottle from a passenger said Martin 'left us and never even said good-bye!' All 9 aboard the Plymouth perished. Wreckage was found in 1984 near Poverty Island.
1938: On November 11, 1938, the fishing tug Donna Marie was carrying fishing gear and herring. Her crew was pulling nets when they sighted the fish tug Sea Bird approaching. They thought she was coming alongside to compare catches, but in reality her skipper was unable to see Donna Marie because of conditions. She was struck broadside and nearly cut in two. Sea Bird rescued her crew and then took her in tow, but she soon sank in 200 feet of water 15 miles off Duluth 6 miles offshore in Lake Superior.
1997: On November 11, 1997, the first significant lake-effect snow of the 97-98 season brought heavy snow to the Keweenaw Peninsula and to North Central Upper Michigan. The snow began around 5 pm on Nov 9 and lasted into the evening of Nov 11. Snow totals included Trimountain (10 SW of Houghton) 18.5 inches, Marquette County Airport 18 inches, Phoenix (25 NE of Houghton) 16 inches, Redridge (10 W of Houghton) 14 inches and Eben (15 SW of Munising) 11 inches. 
November 12
1975: On November 12, 1975, a daily record snowfall of 7.5 inches and record daily liquid water equivalent of 1.79 inches occurred at WFO Marquette.
1905: On November 12, 1905, wood, bulk freighter R.J. Hackett, while carrying 1400 tons of coal, was bound for Marinette, WI from Cleveland, when she stranded on Whaleback Shoal in the bay of Green Bay near Cedar River, MI, and while trying to work herself loose, she caught fire and burned to the waterline. Her crew was rescued by the fish tug Stewart Edward. The Hackett's remains later slipped off the reef into deeper water.
November 13
1856: On November 13, 1856, the wood, package and bulk freight B.L. Webb, while carrying supplies for Marquette, stranded in a gale at Waiska Bay, just west of the Soo in Whitefish Bay and later burned. She was only 47 days old at the time and was a $50,000 loss. One man froze to death in the accident. The gutted hull was recovered the next year.
1896: On November 13, 1896, the wood schooner Senator Blood, while carrying 575 tons of coal, was bound Cleveland for Detour. She went aground and became a total wreck in a gale at Goose Island Shoal, Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron. Her crew was rescued by the steamer Alva after spending a night in the rigging.
1913: On November 13, 1913, the wood, bulk freight Major was damaged by waves at the end of the 'Big Storm' of 1913. She sprang a leak and was abandoned by her crew when she began to sink in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior. Thought to have foundered, but later found still afloat.
1919: On November 13, 1919, the composite, bulk freight John Owen, while carrying barley, was torn to pieces in a gale offshore between Stannard Rock and Manitou Island in Lake Superior and foundered in huge waves. All 23 crew members perished.
2003: On November 13, 2003, a rapidly deepening storm moved across northern Wisconsin eastward into southeast Canada. Snow developed over western and central Upper Michigan and became heavy at times. Northwest winds behind the storm increased to as high as 40 mph, resulting in areas of blowing and drifting snow. Blizzard conditions occurred near Lake Superior in Alger, Luce and Northern Schoolcraft Counties with frequent periods of zero visibility. Schools and a few businesses were closed in Gogebic, Ontonagon, Baraga and Marquette Counties and some roads were blocked in Houghton and Keweenaw Counties. The snow was wet and heavy, breaking off tree branches and downing power and telephone lines and hampering plowing and cleanup efforts. Roads were slick and hazardous, restricting travel across the area. Blizzard conditions occurred in Chippewa County, particularly in the central and eastern portions.
2005: On November 13, 2005, a big wind storm occurred across the U.P as another strong low pressure system moved northeast across Lake Superior. Damaging winds occurred across the U.P. as highlighted by the following reports. A 62 mph gust was measured at Point Iroquois. Hundreds of trees were downed, and power outages were widespread as utility poles were snapped and power lines were brought down. A number of homes lost shingles, and several homes and vehicles saw substantial damage when struck by falling trees. Business signs and billboards were blown over in Chippewa County. The Mackinac Bridge was closed to all trucks and trailers, causing tremendous backups during this very busy travel period (the lead-up to deer firearms season). Measured wind gust of 63 mph at the Copper Harbor ASOS site. Numerous trees knocked down and power outages reported throughout Menominee County. Six-inch diameter tree downed three miles north of Escanaba in the town of Wells. Power outages were also reported in Wells. 50-foot willow tree fell on a home in Garth Point just south of Rapid River. The house sustained minor roof damage. Tree blown down at intersection of Highway M-35 and County Road 480 five miles southeast of Negaunee. Tree blown down across Forestville Road two miles west of Marquette. Tree down on County Road 492 eight miles southeast of Negaunee. Tree blown down at intersection of Neegee Road and County Road 510 eight miles northeast of Negaunee. Tree down on wire along Highway M-35 in Negaunee, MI. Tree down on wire along Highway US-41 in Negaunee Township. Small trees and branches knocked down in Manistique. Power line also knocked down. Small building damaged with torn shingles and siding.
November 14
1816: On November 14, 1816, the trade and exploration wood schooner Invincible, while carrying trade goods, was bound for Fort William, Ontario in a gale. She was driven ashore by big seas and wrecked near Whitefish Point, MI in Lake Superior.
1864: On November 14, 1864, the wood schooner, 2-mast Queen City, while carrying firebrick and mining equipment, was bound for Marquette with supplies and equipment for the Collinsville blast furnace, when she was driven ashore by a gale and broke in two, a total loss. Wreck known for some time, but only identified as this vessel in a site survey in 1993 5 miles southeast of Marquette, 150 ft offshore in Lake Superior.
1872: On November 14, 1872, the wood schooner Marquette, while carrying iron ore, stranded in heavy seas during a gale in the west channel of Munising Bay in Lake Superior. Initial salvage attempts failed and it was hoped that she could winter over and be taken off in the spring, but late fall and winter storms tore her to pieces, and she was abandoned as a total loss in May of the following year. Homeport: Marquette.
1919: On November 14, 1919, the wood, bulk freight H.E. Runnels, while carrying coal, pulled out of shelter too soon and was smacked by a terrific storm. Local fisherman and crew of a C.G. subchaser sheltering nearby took her crew off just before she went to pieces and sank just outside Grand Marais, Michigan harbor in Lake Superior. She had been upbound.
2000: On November 14, 2000, a storm system that developed near the Oklahoma Panhandle tracked northeast and moved across Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Precipitation that began as rain changed to snow as winds turned to the north behind the low and drew in cold Canadian air. Snowfall reports included 8 inches in Rockland and Bruce Crossing, 9 inches southwest of Pelkie, and 8 to 10 inches in Wakefield and Bergland.
November 15
1854: On November 15, 1854, the wood, passenger and package freight Peninsula, while carrying general mechandise, including a quantity of blasting powder, was unloading cargo when a gale hit. She backed away from the dock but broke her propeller shaft, becoming helpless and being then driven onto Sawtooth Reef, near Eagle River, MI in Lake Superior and was destroyed by wave action.
1869: On November 15, 1869, the wooden schooner, package and bulk freighter W.W. Arnold, while carrying iron ore, drove ashore in the great gale of November 1869. The violent storm tore the schooner apart and she quickly sank near mouth of Two-Hearted River, MI in Lake Superior. Loss of life included 11 passengers. Downbound from Marquette for Cleveland.
1883: On November 15, 1883, the wood schooner, 3-mast Norman, while carrying cordwood, was reported wrecked at Hog Island Reef in the Beaver Islands Group in Lake Michigan and declared a total loss, but was later recovered.
1888: On November 15, 1888, the wood, passenger and package freight Starucca, while carrying general merchandise, including railroad wheels, was driven on a bar by an icy gale off Deer Park, MI in Lake Superior. She was thought to be in no danger, so her crew stayed aboard until she started to break up. Deer Park Lifesaving Service crew came to the rescue in a tiny surfboat and took the whole crew off in 3 trips, the last just before she broke up and sank. Bound Buffalo for Duluth. By mid-February of '89, much of her ice-clad cargo had come ashore along the Michigan beach.
1908: On November 15, 1908, the wood scow-schooner, bulk freight Seaman, while carrying slabs and 3,000 bushels of potatoes, was driven ashore at Pilot Island, near Death's Door passage in Lake Michigan and wrecked by a storm, she was probably too old to salvage. [She was the oldest working sail vessel afloat at the time of her loss.]
1909: On November 15, 1909, the wood, bulk freight Ottawa, while carrying wheat, developed a list after her cargo shifted in a gale. The crew abandoned ship just before she went down, then had a 16-mile pull in an open boat before reaching safety. She sank stern first 15 miles off Passage Island on the northeast tip of Isle Royale in Lake Superior.
November 16
1853: On November 16, 1853, the wood schooner Sovereign of the Seas, while carrying pig iron, coal and merchandise, was bound Buffalo for Milwaukee and Racine, when she went on the rocky shoal of Skillagallee shoal in Lake Michigan and was wrecked in a gale. Part of her cargo was reportedly recovered, and the vessel abandoned, where she broke up soon after. This was one of her first trips, having been launched about Sep 23.
1883: On November 16, 1883, a temperature of 5F was observed with snow and wind at the Ontonagon lighthouse during the early morning. The wood, passenger and package freight Manistee, while carrying mixed freight, broke up offshore west of the Keweenaw Peninsula off Eagle Harbor, MI in Lake Superior and foundered in a gale in one of Lake Superior's worst disasters. Bound Bayfield, WI for Ontonagon, MI. It was later reported that Capt. John McKay, had chosen to challenge the violent storm, which had driven several other vessels to port. A 'note in a bottle' from Capt. McKay, deemed to be authentic, was found in May of 1885, near Fish River. Another found near Bayfield in 1897 was also thought to be real. 23 of 26 crewmen perished. In another incident, the wood schooner-barge, bulk freight Wabash, while carrying coal, was upbound in tow of tug Samson with schooners C.G. King and C.H. Johnson, when she broke her towline and was forced into the shallows near Grand Portal Point below Pictured Rocks, near Munising, MI in Lake Superior by a blizzard-gale. She broke into 3 pieces and later pounded to matchwood. The crew made it to shore on a makeshift raft.
(See entry for 21 Nov 1883 in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history )
1887: On November 16, 1887, the wood, bulk freight Pacific, while carrying lumber, grounded on a shoal after leaving the dock during a gale near Deer Park, MI in Lake Superior, then was broken up by a gale on the 19th. Bound Deer Park for Michigan City, IN. The nearby Lifesaving Service took her crew off, and later returned for the captain's dog.
1900: On November 16, 1900, the wooden fishing tug T.H. Camp, while carrying lumber camp supplies, struck a reef and sank in a gale near Madeline Island, WI in the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. She was a fish tug which had been chartered as a temporary cargo carrier and was bound for Madeline Island. She went down in 200 feet of water.
1927: On November 16, 1927, the steel, bulk freight 'turret steamer' Jolly Inez was stranded near Saddle Bag Island in Lake Huron and was heavily damaged in a gale, declared a total loss. However, she was recovered the next spring, her engines removed and her hull repaired and returned to service as the barge Salvor.
1888: On November 16, 1888, the wood tug Magdalena was driven ashore by a gale and became a total wreck at Grant's Island, Ontario in Lake Huron in the north Channel.
2005: On November 16, 2005, a low pressure system developing over the central Plains deepened as it moved over eastern Lake Superior in the morning. Abundant moisture associated with this storm system dropped heavy, wet snow across much of west and central Upper Michigan. 12-hour snowfall totals ending on the morning of the 16th included 11 inches near Little Lake in Marquette County and 11 inches at Rockland in Ontonagon County. Ten-inch snow amounts were reported at Bruce Crossing, Watton, Kenton and Iron River with 8 inches at Watersmeet in Gogebic County. Widespread 8 to 9-inch amounts were reported over the Keweenaw Peninsula with 6 to 8 inch amounts across Dickinson County. The wet, heavy snow caused a number of minor traffic accidents and closed many area schools, including Northern Michigan University in Marquette. The snow also downed tree limbs and caused widespread power outages in Dickinson and Iron Counties and scattered power outages in southern and western Marquette County. Due to the prolonged power outages to around 1,100 customers, a state of emergency was declared in Dickinson County for 24-36 hours in the storm's wake. Numerous trees downed in Bay Mills and Barbeau in Chippewa County from this winter storm.
November 17
1887: On November 17, 1887, the wood package freighter Arizona, carrying oils and acid, had her dangerous cargo catch fire as she approached the Marquette, MI harbor in a heavy sea. Poison fumes drove below-decks crew up, leaving her unmanageable. The steamer ran up against breakwater, and the crew jumped off. The burning steamer 'chased' the crew down the breakwater, preceded by a plume of poisonous smoke. She finally went on the beach and burned herself out. None of the 23 crew members were killed.
1869: On November 17, 1869, the wood brig, 2-mast Robert Burns, while carrying wheat, disappeared from view while in company of several other vessels and foundered in a gale east of Bois Blanc Island in Lake Huron in the Straits of Mackinac. All 10 crew members perished. In a separate incident, the wood brig, 2-mast Racer, while carrying iron ore, was bound Marquette for Cleveland, when she stranded and broke up in a terrific gale in Hammond Bay, in the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron. Valued at about $13,000.
1880: On November 17, 1880, the wood schooner, 3-mast Thomas W. Ferry, while carrying 1000 tons of iron ore, was driven ashore in a gale and stranded on the southwest corner of Beaver Island in the Beaver Islands in Lake Michigan. Sitting astride a large boulder, she hogged and was declared a total loss by the 25th.
1886: On November 17, 1886, the wood schooner Florida, while carrying coal, was sheltering offshore during a gale when she slipped anchors and was driven against a dock at the mouth of Whetstone Brook, near Marquette, MI in Lake Superior where she was pounded to pieces. Her mate fell between the schooner and the rescue tug Gillett and was crushed and died. In a separate incident further west, the wood schooner, 3-mast Lucerne, while carrying iron ore, was outbound in a northeast gale, when she foundered with all hands in 40 feet of water off Chequamegon Point, near Ashland, WI in Lake Superior. Four crewmen were found frozen to her rigging, the others were never found. She was in tow of propeller Raleigh. All 9 crew members perished.
1857: On November 17, 1857, the wood schooner, 2-mast Leander was stranded during a gale and a total loss. She broke up on the beach near Gros Cap, MI on the west Straits of Mackinac in Lake Michigan a short time later. Another ship, the wood bark, 3-mast Oliver Lee, while carrying oats, was downbound when she was wrecked in a gale. Went ashore with Leander and two others. She ended up near Old Mackinac Point [E of Mackinac Bridge site] in Lake Huron in the Straits of Mackinac. Reported to have gone to pieces on Dec 1. Her remaining gear was stripped by the wrecking schooner C.J. Marshall in June of 1858.
2005: On November 17, 2005, behind the storm on the afternoon of the 16th into the morning of the 17th, lake effect snow showers dumped an additional 18 inches of snow in 12 hours at Rockland while Chatham in Alger County also measured 18 inches of new snow. Ten inches of lake effect snow fell at Wetmore in Alger County while Bruce Crossing in Ontonagon County received an additional 9 inches of snow.
1891: On November 17, 1891, the wood schooner, 3-mast Newsboy, while carrying 54,000 tons of corn, was driven ashore on South Fisherman's Shoal near Rock Island, WI in Lake Michigan by a northwest gale and was reported to have gone to pieces on Nov 21. Her crew and two would-be lifesavers were stranded aboard until rescued on the 19th by the tug Monarch.
1902: On November 17, 1902, the wood, bulk freight Robert Wallace, while carrying iron ore, was downbound towing the like-laden barge Ashland in a gale. The wildly bucking barge tore the stern off the Wallace, causing her to swamp and sink southeast of Two Harbors, MN in Lake Superior. Ashland coasted in to take off the Wallace's crew.
1906: On November 17, 1906, the steel, bulk and package freight 'saltie' Theano, while carrying steel rails, struck Marvin Island, was holed and sank in a gale. Storm waves later pushed her off into deep water near Trowbridge Island in Lake Superior. The crew escaped in her boats.
November 18
1958: On November 18, 1958, the steel self-unloading bulk freighter Carl D. Bradley, in ballast, battled 30-foot waves and storm force winds of 65 mph. She rode up on a huge wave and broke in two, sinking quickly 12 miles southwest of Gull Island in Lake Michigan. The German motor vessel Christian Sartori was first on the scene, but was unable to find any of her crew. Extensive air-sea rescue operation by the Coast Guard yielded just two freezing survivors out of a crew of 35 on a raft 14 hours later. She was bound Buffington Harbor, IL, for Calcite, MI, and was the 2nd largest vessel ever lost on the Lakes. Vessel owners and insurance companies claimed for years that she was simply overwhelmed by the storm, and didn't break in two, but dives in the spring of 1997 confirmed that she had, thereby proving that it was hull failure rather than an act of God which killed her. Her homeport of Rogers City, MI was also the home of 23 of her crew. The hull was located in Sep 1959 in 360 feet of water.
See section on final voyage of the SS Carl D. Bradley in
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Carl_D._Bradley
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
1887: On November 18, 1887, the wood schooner, 2-mast Alice Craig, was bound Bayfield for Siskiwit Bay, when she was driven ashore in a gale near Bark Point, Wisconsin shore in Lake Superior. She was later stripped and abandoned.
1886: On November 18, 1886, the wood schooner, 2-mast Milwaukee Belle, while carrying lumber, was dismasted by a southwest gale north of the Beaver Islands, and blown almost 40 miles and sank at Brevort, MI, Straits of Mackinac in Lake Michigan. Her rigging and gear were salvaged, but the vessel was abandoned Nov 30.
1900: On November 18, 1900, a wood schooner reportedly sank in a heavy gale 7 miles off Munising, MI in Lake Superior, but her crew were rescued by the tug Ward before the Lifesaving Service crew was able to get to her. No mention is given of her name.
1994: On November 18, 1994, high winds affected much of Michigan. Gusts to 72 mph closed the Mackinac bridge from 2:00 to 3:00 pm. Gusts to 59 mph at the Sault Ste. Marie municipal airport damaged a cinder-block aircraft hanger requiring its demolition. From 1200EST-1430EST numerous reports of damage to roofs, trees and small structures were received from Upper Michigan, along with many reports of power outages. Structural and roof damage was reported at a large casino in Sault Ste Marie. Gusts of 40 to 50 mph were widespread throughout the state. These high winds caused $1 million in property damage.
November 19
1869: On November 19, 1869, the wood schooner, 3-mast Ocean Wave, while carrying 13,000 bushels of corn, was bound Chicago for Ogdensburgh, NY, when she went ashore in Hammond Bay in the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron during a gale and became a total loss. She was struck by a violent squall and capsized near Chambers Island, Lake Michigan, in the summer of 1866. Reported a total loss, but recovered and rebuilt to a schooner at Menominee the next year of 1867.
1914: On November 19, 1914, the wood, bulk freighter [lumber hooker] C.F. Curtis, while carrying lumber, was torn apart offshore 7 miles east of Grand Marais, MI in Lake Superior in a gale and sank. All 14 crew members perished. She had two big barges in tow at the time. The schooner-barge, wood, 2-mast Selden E. Marvin, while carrying lumber, was being towed by the lumber hooker C.F. Curtis with Annie M. Peterson. She separated from the others. All three vessels were lost, with the Marvin being torn to pieces and sunk somewhere off Crisp Point, east of Grand Marais, MI in Lake Superior. Her wreckage was strewn on the beach all along this coast. All 7 crew members perished on the Marvin. The wood schooner-barge, 2-mast, bulk freight Annie M. Peterson, while carrying lumber, sank off the mouth of Two-Hearted River in Lake Superior with all 9 crew members perishing.
1957: On November 19, 1957, the steel tug D and C struck a reef called Grenfell Rock on the North Shore, due north of Eagle River, MI and foundered in a gale on Lake Superior.
See entries for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
and  http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
1909: On November 19, 1909, the wood schooner Defiance was stranded and a total loss in a gale at the mouth of Bark River, 10 miles south of Escanaba, MI in the bay of Green Bay.
1886: On November 19, 1886, the wood schooner-barge Marinette, while carrying lumber, was in tow of the steamer Manistique, when she broke tow and went ashore in a 3-day northwest gale southeast of Fairport, MI, Garden Peninsula in Lake Michigan. The woman cook and her 13 year old daughter were among the lost. The wreck eventually washed ashore near Frankfort. 6 of 7 crew perished.
1887: On November 19, 1887, the wood schooner-barge, 3-mast [iron frames] Richard Morwood, while carrying barreled stove oil, separated from her tow vessel during a gale and with sails torn apart, she struck bottom and sank after drifting for some time near Grand Island near Munising, MI in Lake Superior. Declared a total loss, but recovered in 1888.
1869: On November 19, 1869, the wood bark, 3-mast De Soto, while carrying 480 tons of iron ore, was lying to at Marquette in a gale, when she dragged her anchors and ran afoul of the schooner Athenian, losing her jibbom and bowsprit. She was laid up at a dock at Marquette awaiting repairs afterward and was destroyed less than a month later when another gale finished her off.
2010: On November 19, 2010, a cold front extending from a low pressure system moving through northwest Ontario produced gusty west winds near 65 mph at Stannard Rock in the evening.
2011: On November 19, 2011, a low pressure system moving through the Upper Great Lakes dumped a swath of heavy snow over much of west and north central Upper Michigan mainly in the afternoon and evening. Seven to eight inches of wet heavy snow fell from Sidnaw to Watton and Covington in less than a six-hour period with two-inch per hour snowfall rates reported at times. Spotters in and near Ironwood measured anywhere from 11 to 14 inches of wet heavy snow over a ten-hour time period. The spotter just northwest of Ironwood reported snowfall rates of two to three inches per hour at times. The Wakefield area reported over one-inch per hour snowfall rates during the event. The spotter near Winona measured eight inches of wet heavy snow in a 12-hour period. Spotters measured six to seven inches of snow from Republic to Ishpeming. Most of the snow fell in less than an eight-hour period.
November 20
1875: On November 20, 1875, the wood schooner-barge Chenango, while carrying pig iron, was downbound in tow of steamer Jay C Morse, when a squall in a gale broke her towline and she went ashore near Wood Island Reef, near Munising, MI in Lake Superior. The crew weathered the storm in her cabin in two feet of freezing water for 36 hours. Valued at $12,000.
1900: On November 20, 1900, an unknown wooden scow, while carrying steel rails, was in tow of the tug Andrew J. Smith, when she swamped and foundered in a gale east of Grand Marais, at Deer Park, Michigan in Lake Superior. She had pulled away from her dock during unloading to keep her from washing ashore. The five men lost were all lumbermen and were accidentally trapped aboard when the tug pulled out. Another unknown wooden scow, while carrying 200 tons of steel rails, was in tow of the tug Andrew J. Smith, when she swamped and foundered in a gale off Whitefish Point in Lake Superior.
November 21
1883: On November 21, 1883, the tug Maytham discovered a pail and part of the cabin of the Manistee in Lake Superior which had sunk five days earlier near Eagle Harbor, MI.
(See entry for 16 Nov 1883 in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history )
1906: On November 21, 1906, the wood, bulk freight Panama, while carrying coal, was upbound with schooner-barge Matanzas in tow, when she was found to be leaking in a gale. She was run to shore to prevent her sinking, but was then pounded to pieces by storm waves at Mineral Point, near Ontonagon, MI in Lake Superior.
1975: On November 21, 1975, a daily record snowfall of 7.2 inches occurred at WFO Marquette.
1969: On November 21, 1969, the whaleback steamer, tanker Meteor, while sailing from Marquette, Michigan to Superior, Wisconsin, touched bottom on Gull Rock Shoal off Lake Superior's Keweenaw Peninsula. Contributing to the accident were two factors. Meteor's radar was out of commission and the Gull Rock Light was not functioning. The vessel was able to complete its voyage to Superior, Wisconsin without assistance. Subsequent inspection revealed that keel plating was damaged from the rudder shoe to a point twenty feet forward. This damage was repaired by the Chicago yard of the American Shipbuilding Co. on December 8th. The Coast Guard did not find any licensed members of the Meteor's crew to be at fault, but the ship's sailing career was over and it was made into a museum ship later in Superior, WI.
(See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Meteor_(1896) Meteor was built in 1896)
1847: On November 21, 1847, the wood schooner, 2-mast Margaret Allen was wrecked in a gale near Death's Door in Lake Michigan. She went down with all hands.
November 22
1902: On November 22, 1902, the steel, bulk freighter Bannockburn, while carrying 95,000 bushels of wheat, sailed out from Ft. William, Ontario into a gale and was never seen again and sank in mid-lake Lake Superior taking all 21 members of her crew with her. One of her lifeboats was later found ashore. She was considered to be of the absolute highest quality construction available. Her loss is one of the big mysteries of Lake Superior. For many years, sailors claimed to see her running without lights on stormy nights, looking in vain for some safe port.
1860: On November 22, 1860, the wood schooner Circassian, while carrying grain, stranded in a gale and blizzard and sunk to her decks at White Shoals near Beaver Island in Lake Michigan, where she broke in two. She was almost completely broken up by Dec 1. Her crew was presumed lost, but actually had made it to Hog Island in a blizzard and were not rescued from there until almost 2 weeks later.
1869: On November 22, 1869, the wood bark, 3-mast Cream City, while carrying wheat, lost her way in a gale and went ashore on Drummond Island 6 miles east of Detour in Lake Huron. She appeared to be only slightly damaged, but several large pumps were unable to lower the water in her hull. Abandoned as a total wreck on Dec 8.
1979: On November 22, 1979, the steel, bulk freighter Frontenac grounded on a reef near Pellet Island, MN in Lake Superior with heavy damage during a gale. Assessed and considered to be a constructive total loss. Later towed to Superior, Wis, where she sat until scrapped in 1985.
1895: On November 22, 1895, the wood, bulk freight 'steambarge' Michael Groh, while carrying lumber, lost her rudder and became disabled, then storm water doused her fires. Helpless, she was driven ashore and destroyed at Pictured Rocks, near Munising, MI in Lake Superior during a gale. Heavily pounded and pushed into deep water on the 29th. Downbound. Lifesaving Service was able to remove most of her cargo. In a separate incident further east, the wood, bulk freight Missoula, while carrying wheat, rode up on a big wave during a gale and broke her shaft when she came back down. Helpless, she was overwhelmed after drifting for a full day. Her crew abandoned her for the open lake, and they drifted 30 miles in the lifeboat before making landfall on the south shore of Caribou Island in Lake Superior.
1891: On November 22, 1891, the wood, bulk freight Samuel Mather, while carrying 58,000 bushels of wheat, collided with the upbound package freighter Brazil in drizzly rain and sank in the early morning. Brazil picked up her crew. She was a major loss of $176,000, going down in 300 feet of water 8 miles offshore off Pt. Iroquois, Whitefish Bay in Lake Superior.
1868: On November 22, 1868, the wood schooner, 2-mast Muskingum, while carrying 445 tons of coal, was bound Cleveland for Chicago, when she ran ashore at Bois Blanc Island, MI in the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron after the shifting of her anchor chain from forward to aft threw her compass off and she went ashore in the gale. She was reportedly broken up beyond saving by the next day.
1901: On November 22, 1901, the wood schooner, 3-mast Pride, while carrying wood and potatoes, was driven ashore in Washington Harbor on Washington Island, WI in the bay of Green Bay and broke up in a gale. The vessel was more than 50 years old at loss.
1919: On November 22, 1919, the wood, bulk freight 'lumber hooker' Myron, while carrying lumber, was towing the schooner-barge Miztec when the Myron began to leak in a terrific northwest gale. Her crew cut the barge loose and prepared to abandon, but seas were too high. Despite steamer Adriatic trying to block the weather and 3 attempts by the Lifesaving Service, Myron foundered with all still on board 1.5 miles off Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. Only one survived out of the 18 crewmembers.
1917: On November 22, 1917, the wood tug Alberta, while carrying 4-5 tons herring, foundered in a storm in Thunder Bay, Ontario in Lake Superior.
2000: On November 22, 2000, low pressure tracked from Iowa to the Straits of Mackinac. Snow began falling on the 19th as the low approached Michigan's Upper Peninsula, mixing with rain across the southern counties. As the low passed to the east on the 20th, northeast winds flowing across the still relatively warm waters of Lake Superior produced lake effect snow squalls which persisted into the 22nd over Alger County. The greatest portion of the snowfall occurred overnight on the 19th and during the day on the 20th with lesser amounts on the 21st and still more on the 22nd in Alger County. Snowfall reports on the morning of the 20th included 12 inches at Ironwood, with another 7 inches reported on the morning of the 21st. Nine inches fell at Rockland with another 5 inches the next day. Bergland reported 9 inches plus an additional 7 inches reported the next morning. On the 20th, 10 inches fell in Phoenix and Herman, 11 in Baraga, 13 inches at Watton, 14 in Ishpeming, 17 in Gwinn and at the National Weather Service Office in Negaunee. Chatham and Shingleton recorded 17 inches from the 19th to the 22nd. Munising received 19 inches during the same period, and Wetmore reported 14 inches. The snowfall total from the 19th to the 22nd reached 23 inches in Melstrand. Most of the schools in the Lake Superior snowbelt were closed and some businesses as well. State and County snowplow drivers worked overtime to keep roads cleared. 
November 23
1868: On November 23, 1868, the wooden schooner William M. Arbuckle was put ashore in a gale to prevent her sinking and abandoned as a total loss after the tug American Eagle was unable to pump her out near Sister Bay, WI in the bay of Green Bay.
1905: On November 23, 1905, the steel, bulk freighter Coralia, while carrying iron ore, went ashore with heavy damage in a gale and reported a total loss at Point Isabelle on the Keweenaw Peninsula.
1869: On November 23, 1869, the wood schooner W.C. Craig, while carrying 468 tons of iron ore, was driven ashore in a gale on Peninsula Point in the bay of Green Bay while bound Escanaba for Cleveland. Her crew tried to get her off by the jettison of her cargo. But she broke up soon after.
1926: On November 23, 1926, the wood, bulk freight Herman H. Hettler, while carrying table salt, was heading for the shelter of Grand Island in a gale when she hit a reef at Trout Point on the east side of Grand Island, near Munising, MI on Lake Superior and was wrecked. She broke up under the pounding of waves soon after. The wreck was later dynamited to level her.
1999: On November 23, 1999, low pressure moving northeast over western Lake Superior brought heavy snow to extreme western Upper Michigan. North winds 10 to 20 mph from Lake Superior enhanced the accumulations. Ironwood received 16 inches of heavy wet snow. Only 30 miles east, Bergland totaled 7 inches in the same period. Farther north, along Lake Superior, most of the precipitation fell as rain (1.37 inches at Ontonagon). Only 2 to 4 inches of snow was reported to the southeast around Watersmeet. The wet snow covered the roads with slush, resulting in numerous minor traffic accidents. One serious accident ended in a fatality and two injuries when a driver lost control on the slippery road and hit an oncoming car. Power and telephone outages were reported as the heavy wet snow brought down electric and telephone lines.
November 24
1853: On November 24, 1853, the wood brig, 2-mast Robert Willis, while carrying 14,000 bushels of wheat, was bound Chicago for Buffalo, when she went missing in a gale on her final trip of the season and probably sank in the Inside Passage, near Beaver Island in Lake Michigan. Hopes and hoaxes kept relatives and friends of the crew certain that she was not lost until the following February. There was unconfirmed speculation at the time that the ship and her crew were waylaid by Mormon 'pirates' from Beaver Island. All 10 crew members perished.
1884: On November 24, 1884, after a blizzard, low temperatures dropped to -10F in Michigamme and to -14F in Ishpeming.
1912: On November 24, 1912, the wood, passenger and package freight 'coaster' South Shore, while carrying general freight and passengers, split her seams in a heavy gale. She was run to shore but sank just short and broke up in place 7 miles west of Grand Marais, MI in Lake Superior. The Lifesaving Service from Grand Marais saved her 9-member crew and 4 passengers.
1921: On November 24, 1921, the wooden tug Arbutus, which was carrying illegal liquor, foundered in a gale 10 miles northeast of Grand Marais, MI in Lake Superior while being escorted to Grand Marais by the U.S. Revenue Cutter. The crew was under arrest for rum running. No lives were lost.
1918: On November 24, 1918, the 'Naravin'-class minesweeper Cerisoles, went missing during a gale on her delivery voyage across Lake Superior to the French Navy. In company of Inkermann [also lost] and Sebastopol of the same type. No wreckage or remains  were ever found. All 38 of her French crew perished. Later speculation was that she struck Superior Shoal, a pinnacle in the center of the lake that was uncharted until the 1940's but many other sceneria are possible. Sank somewhere between Thunder Bay and Sault Ste Marie in Lake Superior. Only Sebastopol made the Soo. The other two probably foundered in the gale, though no evidence was ever found.
1880: On November 24, 1880, the wood schooner, 3-mast E.C.L. was driven ashore at Sister Bay, near Death's Door, WI in the bay of Green Bay during a gale while anchored and wrecked. She was a total loss.
1990: On November 24, 1990, the steel, bulk freight Kinsmen Independent ran aground in heavy weather south of Isle Royale in Lake Superior. At first she was thought to be a constructive total loss, but she was later refloated and repaired at a cost of $1.5 million.
1881: On November 24, 1881, the wood, canaller Lake Erie, collided with the wood steamer Northern Queen in a fog and blizzard near Poverty Island, MI at the mouth of the bay of Green Bay. Quickly declared a total loss, but later recovered, though she does not appear on records again. Northern Queen picked up her crew and passengers and made it to port at Manistique, where the Northern Queen struck the pier heavily while docking and was wrecked while also carrying a cargo of corn. One crewman from the Erie died enroute to shore from being scalded during the sinking.
1872: On November 24, 1872, the wood schooner Libby was torn from her dockside moorings during a gale and was driven ashore and dashed to pieces off the old Northwester Hotel site, Marquette, MI in Lake Superior and was a total loss.
2005: On November 24, 2005, snowfall in advance of an Alberta Clipper system began early on the 23rd and continued through the day before transitioning to lake effect snow in the afternoon and evening. Strong northwest winds gusting to 35 to 45 mph at times combined with the lake effect snow in the wake of the system to create blizzard or near-blizzard conditions across much of west and central Upper Michigan on the overnight of the 23rd-24th and into Thanksgiving Day on the 24th. Winds even gusted as high as 55 mph at the Copper Harbor ASOS. The blizzard conditions and snow-covered roads hampered holiday travel plans and caused numerous accidents throughout west and central Upper Michigan. Although winds decreased considerably on the overnight of the 24th-25th, lake effect snow continued heavy at times through the 25th. Storm total snowfall from the 23rd through the 25th exceeded a foot over many of the snow belts. The Houghton County Airport reported the most snowfall during the event measuring 16.5 inches.
2003: On November 24, 2003, strong low pressure moved from New Mexico to Green Bay and then to James Bay in Ontario. Gulf of Mexico moisture moving over the warm front associated with this low brought snow to western and central Upper Michigan. Enough warm air moved into the Upper Peninsula to change the snow over to sleet then to freezing rain and drizzle. The combination of 3 to 4 inches of sleet and wet snow and 1/4 inch of ice accumulation from freezing rain and drizzle shut down the county airport in Houghton and made roads in Northern Houghton and Keweenaw Counties extremely slick and hazardous. There were reports of power and telephone outages as the weight of the freezing and frozen precipitation broke off tree branches and brought down power and telephone lines.
1997: On November 24, 1997, a strong low pressure system moved east across Lake Superior on the 22nd bringing cold air over the relatively warmer waters of Lake Superior. This produced heavy lake-effect snow in areas favored by northwest winds that lasted into the morning of the 24th. The heaviest snows occurred between Ironwood and the Keweenaw Peninsula and between Munising and Grand Marais. The highest snow total was Trimountain (10 SW of Houghton) with 21.0 inches. Snow totals included: Melstrand 15.3 inches, Herman 12.0 inches, Ramsay 15.5 inches, Shingleton 14.0 inches, Baraga 11.5 inches, Munising 13.3 inches, Grand Marais 10.2 inches, Trimountain 21.0 inches, Phoenix 18.0 inches, Bergland 15.0 inches, Houghton 18.6 inches, Ontonagon 12.5 inches, and Hancock 18.4 inches.
November 25
1874: On November 25, 1874, drifts of 5-6 feet deep reported in a snowstorm in Marquette.
1877: On November 25, 1877, the wood schooner Dick Somers, while carrying iron ore [650 tons worth $3,300], was bound Escanaba for Ashtabula, when she was driven ashore and reported by her skipper as a total loss at the south end of Poverty Island in Lake Michigan. Most of her gear and cargo was salvaged by the divers Church and Hill of Chicago by the summer of 1878.
1975: On November 25, 1975, a daily record snowfall of 7.8 inches occurred at WFO Marquette with a record coldest high temperature for the date of 16F which was set again in 1977.
1895: On November 25, 1895, the wood schooner Mattie C. Bell, while carrying 900 tons of coal, was in tow of the steamer Jim Sherrifs, and was stranded in a fall gale and broke up, a total loss at Big Summer Island in Lake Michigan. The crew was rescued. A concerted salvage effort lasted into the following summer and included offloading her cargo and filling her with cedar to make her float, but she was finally abandoned. The wood bulk freight Jim Sheriffs was driven ashore and declared a total loss, with her consort, Mattie C. Bell. Her foreshoe was right out of the water. One crew member of the Jim Sheriffs perished.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
1905: On November 25, 1905, the wood, bulk freight D.C. Whitney was driven on a reef at Washington Island, WI in Lake Michigan and wrecked during a gale. Declared a total loss, she was later recovered.
1906: On November 25, 1906, the wood schooner La Rabida, while carrying 10,000 Christmas trees, was driven ashore by a gale near Naubinway, MI on Lake Michigan. Her crew made it to shore after much difficulty, and spent a frigid night on the beach.
1932: On November 25, 1932, the wood fish tug Lydia, while carrying fish, capsized and sank just off the harbor entrance of Grand Marais, MI in Lake Superior in a violent gale while running for shelter. All 5 people aboard perished.
1908: On November 25, 1908, the wood schooner, bulk freight Berwyn, while carrying light, was caught by a sudden gale. She stranded and broke up on a reef 2 miles from Pilot Island Light, Death's Door in Lake Michigan. She was in tow of steamer Walter Vail. 
November 26
1919: On November 26, 1919, the iron, package and bulk freighter Tioga, while carrying wheat, was making for shelter in a gale when she struck Sawtooth Reef, just off Eagle River, MI in Lake Superior. Her crew made it to shore in her boats, but the vessel was pushed off into deep water. Out of Duluth.
2001: On November 26, 2001, this was the start of a significant snowstorm at WFO Marquette with 9.2 inches of daily record snowfall that fell.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
2002: On November 26, 2002, a low pressure system over eastern Canada pushed cold air across Lake Superior, generating lake effect snow showers over the lake shore counties of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The snow began falling on the 24th and continued into the 27th with bursts of heavy snow (1 to 2 inches an hour) falling on the 25th and 26th. During the heaviest snowfall, Ironwood accumulated 11 inches, Ontonagon reported 15 inches, and Rockland received 17 inches.  Farther east, The National Weather Service Office recorded 13 inches of new snow, downtown Marquette reported 15 inches, 20 inches accumulated in Harvey and 24 inches covered Skandia. Downtown Munising only received 7 inches, but 10 inches fell at Sand Point and Chatham measured 11 inches of new snow. The heaviest snowfalls were fairly localized, but 4 to 8 inches of snow fell over most parts of the lakeshore counties, contributing to numerous minor traffic accidents, a few school closings and difficult travel conditions along two of the major travel routes across the Upper Peninsula.
November 27
1855: On November 27, 1855, the wood schooner, 2-mast Windham, while carrying lumber, lay to to shelter from a storm, but a failure of the watch allowed her to drag her anchor and go on the rocks in Death's Door passage in Lake Michigan. Her crew huddled on the damaged ship for a day, during which time the brig Montezuma passed her distress signal without stopping. The crew was finally taken off by the brig Geneva.
1867: On November 27, 1867, the wood bark, 3-mast R.G. Winslow was bound Chicago for Buffalo, when she stranded in a gale at Spectacle Reef in Lake Huron and later broke up. Several vessels passed nearby while she was flying her distress signals, but none stopped to give her aid. Her crew members finally made it to the bark Annie Vought, stranded nearby, then got to shore on their own.
2001: On November 27, 2001, a daily record snowfall of 19.2 inches of snow and 2.16 inches of record liquid water equivalent occurred at WFO Marquette. The heavy wet snow brought down some trees and caused power outages over the higher terrain of north central Upper Michigan. Heavy snows occurred over western Upper Michigan as a low pressure system moved across the Great Lakes region. The snow began on the 26th and continued into the 28th into the mid afternoon. Scattered power and telephone outages were reported as tree branches weighted down by the wet snow snapped and fell across the lines. Strong northeast winds enhanced the snowfall, adding moisture from Lake Superior. The greatest amounts fell on the central highlands overnight on the 26th and during the morning of the 27th. Thirty inches of snow fell at the National Weather Service Office near Negaunee. Other snowfall totals from the storm included 9 inches in Iron Mountain and Ontonagon, 10 inches at Amasa, Bruce Crossing and northwest Dickinson County near Channing, 11 inches in Rockland, Calumet, Herman and Pelkie, 12 inches at Stambaugh, Phoenix, Paint Lake near Kenton and at Fortune Lake near Crystal Falls, 13 inches in both Gwinn and Watton. The National Weather Service Office set daily record snowfalls on the 26th with 9.2 inches of snow and again on the 27th with 19.2 inches of new snow. The record snowfall on the 27th was also the all-time daily record for the month of November. The 2.16 inches of water equivalent on the 27th also set a record.
See entry for 26 Nov 2001 in  http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1965: On November 27, 1965, the bulk freighter Algosoo struck the bottom in a gale as she was rounding Whitefish Point and suffered heavy damage to her hull. She continued her voyage, but was scrapped due to age and condition at the end of it.
1872: On November 27, 1872, the wood schooner Charles C. Griswold, while carrying grain, was overwhelmed and destroyed offshore in a gale off Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. All 6 crew members were killed. In a separate incident nearby, the wood schooner-barge, bulk freight Jupiter, while carrying iron ore, was bound Marquette for Wyandotte, Mich., when she was driven ashore and wrecked by an arctic gale near Vermilion Point, MI in Lake Superior. She was in tow of steamer John A. Dix with the schooner Saturn, when towline parted. The hull was probably recovered. All of the crew of either 7 or 8 perished on the Jupiter.  
Also on cassette tape “Lake Superior Shipwrecks – Stories by Dr. Fred Wolff
1889: On November 27, 1889, the wood, bulk freight 'steambarge' Anna Smith, while carrying coal, was driven ashore by a gale and broken up by wave action 7 miles below the Cheboygan, MI lighthouse in Lake Huron. She had been bound for Milwaukee towing the schooner Red Wing, where she was to go into winter quarters. One crewman drowned in a solo attempt to make it ashore on a hatch cover - the rest were rescued by the tug Clayt. The wreck burned to the water's edge Nov 30. The ship was a total loss of $47,000.
1905: On November 27, 1905, the steel, bulk freight Mataafa, while carrying iron ore, was outbound from Duluth with the barge James Nasmyth, when she was unable to breast a terrific gale. She turned back, dropped the barge some miles out and tried to make Duluth harbor. Her machinery failed and she was driven on the breakwater, where she broke in two. Heroic effort by Lifesaving Service saved the forward crew but those stranded on the after end froze to death within sight of a crowd gathered on the breakwater. 9 crew members died. 
Also on cassette tape “Lake Superior Shipwrecks – Stories by Dr. Fred Wolff - See 28 Nov 1905 entry.
1994: On November 27, 1994, high winds did extensive damage to the St. Ignace waterfront. The city marina, boardwalk and casino suffered the most damage. The east wind gusted to 82 mph on the Straits of Mackinac Bridge, forcing the closure of the bridge for 6 hours and 32 minutes, and backing-up traffic for at least 3.5 miles. The wind was the strongest recorded on the bridge since records began during the 1980s. Lightning cut power to the bridge at about 2000 EST. A barge carrying liquid asphalt grounded on the north side of Bois Blanc Island, just east of the Straits of Mackinac and was not freed for several days. The wind caused $500,000 in damage.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
2007: On November 27, 2007, wind gusts in excess of 65 mph were measured at the Munising ASOS at 930 AM and at the Grand Marais GLOS site at 1040 AM during the wind event. Four 18 to 22-inch diameter evergreen trees were downed along with one 20-inch diameter birch tree at Freda. Northerly wind gusts ranged from 40 to 60 mph at the Houghton County Airport ASOS for three hours as visibility dipped to one half mile or lower in snow and blowing snow. Blizzard conditions were observed for two hours. Throughout much of Munising, large trees and power lines were knocked down across roadways or driveways, blocking traffic and/or causing minor damage. Debris from homes including roofing shingles, corrugated plastic sheeting and trim from windows and doors littered Munising streets. The strong winds also toppled a large spruce tree onto the side of the Bowerman Funeral Home on Superior Street. A few minor accidents were attributed to the poor visibility brought on by the lake effect snow and blowing snow accompanying the storm. Eleven miles southwest of Munising, numerous trees were toppled along Sixteen-Mile Road. A 32-inch diameter hemlock tree was snapped in half five miles east-northeast of Pequaming. An 18-inch red pine and 24-inch white pine were snapped at the bases in Baraga County. Briefly heavy lake effect snow accumulating from 1 to 4 inches along with northerly winds gusting between 40 to 70 mph produced blizzard conditions for two hours in Marquette. Several minor traffic accidents were attributed to the blizzard conditions. An intense low pressure system moving over Lake Superior in the morning produced strong, gusty northerly winds and lake effect snow in its wake across the west and central Lake Superior shoreline areas of Upper Michigan. Snow and northwest winds gusting to 40 mph combined to reduce visibility to one half mile or less at Ironwood in the early morning hours. Classes were delayed two hours at both the Wakefield-Marenisco and Watersmeet schools while the morning kindergarten class at Wakefield-Marenisco was cancelled. Girls basketball games in Ironwood and Wakefield-Marenisco were cancelled as well. Downed trees and power lines were reported throughout the region as well as other property damage. Brief blizzard conditions in lake effect snow and blowing snow were also reported. Observers at Newberry and Rainbow Lodge measured four to six inches of snow as northwest winds gusted in excess of 40 mph at the Newberry AWOS during the peak of the storm. The combination of snow and blowing snow reduced visibility to a quarter mile or less at times. Michigan State Police reported several accidents related to the poor driving conditions from the storm. A 62 mph wind gust was measured at the Ontonagon GLOS site and sustained winds were measured at 49 mph.
November 28
1976: On November 28, 1976, a record low of -8F occurred at WFO Marquette.
1966: On November 28, 1966, thousands of homes in an 8-county region of the central and eastern U.P. lost power as 60 mph wind gusts caused massive power failures during a gale and snowstorm November 27th-28th. 5 miles of ice-laden utility poles were brought down in Rudyard due to high wind with trees snapped and flung onto power lines in Marquette County with half the city of Marquette losing power. Baraga and Delta counties also had massive power outages. Over a foot of snow fell in Marquette with 8-9 foot drifts between Marquette and Negaunee with deeper drifts around Skandia. Over 200 vehicles stranded in the Green Garden-Skandia area along highway 41 because of the blizzard.
2001: On November 28, 2001, 33.1 inches of heavy, wet snow fell at WFO Marquette in 26 hours from the 26th to the 28th. Heavy snows occurred over western Upper Michigan as a low pressure system moved across the Great Lakes region. The snow began on the 26th and continued into the 28th. Scattered power and telephone outages were reported as tree branches weighted down by the wet snow snapped and fell across the lines. Strong northeast winds enhanced the snowfall, adding moisture from Lake Superior. The greatest amounts fell on the central highlands overnight on the 26th and during the morning of the 27th. Thirty inches of snow fell at the National Weather Service Office near Negaunee. Other snowfall totals from the storm included 9 inches in Iron Mountain and Ontonagon, 10 inches at Amasa, Bruce Crossing and northwest Dickinson County near Channing, 11 inches in Rockland, Calumet, Herman and Pelkie, 12 inches at Stambaugh, Phoenix, Paint Lake near Kenton and at Fortune Lake near Crystal Falls, 13 inches in both Gwinn and Watton. The National Weather Service Office set daily record snowfalls on the 26th with 9.2 inches of snow and again on the 27th with 19.2 inches of new snow. The record snowfall on the 27th was also the all-time daily record for the month of November. The 2.16 inches of water equivalent on the 27th also set a record.
1872: On November 28, 1872, the wood schooner W.O. Brown, while carrying wheat, was downbound from Duluth in a frigid gale when she was driven ashore and pounded to pieces near Mamainse Point in Lake Superior. Three survivors out of 9 struggled through a terrific cold wave and finally made it to the Soo on Christmas Day. Also on cassette tape “Lake Superior Shipwrecks – Stories by Dr. Fred Wolff
1905: On November 28, 1905, the steel, bulk freighter William Edenborn had the steel barge Madiera in tow in a terrific gale. After she cut Madeira loose, she was pushed on a reef and split in half just west of Split Rock River mouth, 6-7 miles southwest from Split Rock Lighthouse, MN in Lake Superior. Declared a total loss, she was eventually recovered and reassembled at great expense. 1 person lost their life in this wreck. In a separate incident further north, the wood scow-barge George Herbert was enroute with provisions for a shoreside lumber camp, in tow of the tug F.W. Gillett when the Herbert wrecked in a gale near Two Islands, Ontario on the North Shore of Lake Superior. The two had been sheltering at anchor for 10 hours when the Herbert broke her anchor cable and drove ashore. This storm is known as the 'Big Blow of 1905' or 'The MATAAFA Storm.' 3 of the 5 crew members perished. In another incident nearby, the steel, bulk freight '3-island steamer' Monkshaven, while carrying light, was driven ashore by a terrific gale and wrecked at Angus Island near Thunder Bay, Ontario in Lake Superior. Her thinly-clad crew survived on the ice covered island for 96 hours until found. The vessel was pulled off by wreckers in the spring of 1906, but was immediately snatched back to the rocks by a storm and totally wrecked. Further east, the steel, bulk freight Ira H. Owen, while carrying barley, broke up offshore in 80-90 mph winds and sank near Outer Island in the Apostles Island group in Lake Superior. Most reports say that all 19 hands were lost, though Lifesaving Service report says all were saved. Another incident along the north shore of Minnesota involved the wood, bulk freight George Spencer, while carrying coal. She was towing the barge Amboy when struck by a gale. She cut the barge loose in an attempt to save both vessels, but both were driven ashore anyway off Sugar Loaf Landing, Little Marais, MN in Lake Superior. Spencer was disabled quickly, but her crew made it to shore on a breeches' buoy which had been rigged by local fishermen, directed by a Spencer crewman who had come ashore hand over hand on a heaving line. She was later mostly removed, but remnants of the wreck are reportedly still on the site. Further east, the steel, bulk freight Western Star, while carrying light, was driven ashore at 14 Mile Point on the west side of the Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior by the 'Big Blow' of 1905. Declared total loss, she was later recovered.
See entry for following day in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
Also on cassette tape “Lake Superior Shipwrecks – Stories by Dr. Fred Wolff See 27 Nov 1905 entry.
See also https://www.lakesuperior.com/the-lake/maritime/the-mataafa-blow-stormy-horror-of-1905/ 
https://www.lakesuperior.com/the-lake/natural-world/nine-major-lake-superior-storms/
1919: On November 28, 1919, the wood, fish tug Rollo stranded and wrecked, a total loss in a gale near Bois Blanc Island, Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron.
1960: On November 28, 1960, a winter storm produced 20 to 40-foot-waves on Lake Superior near Duluth. Duluth was buried by a foot of snow whipped by 70-mph winds. Property along the north shore of the lake was flooded and battered by high winds. Thousands of cords of hardwood were washed into the lake and up to 3 feet of water flooded the main street of Grand Marais, MN.  
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
November 29
1976: On November 29, 1976, a record low temperature of -13F occurred at WFO Marquette.
1902: On November 29, 1902, the wood, bulk freight 'lumber hooker' Charles Hebard, while carrying lumber, was downbound from West Superior, WI, when she was driven ashore and wrecked on the rocks of Point Maimanse, Ontario in Lake Superior during a gale. She had released her tow barges Aloha, John A. Francomb and G.H. Warmington before the loss. Two crewmen made it to shore in a small skiff and jury-rigged a breech's buoy and saved the rest. The Hebard was pounded to pieces where she sat.
1905: On November 29, 1905, the steel, bulk freight Lafayette, while carrying light, was rammed from behind by her tow barge Manila in a terrific gale, when she was rendered helpless and thrown against the cliffs of Encampment Island, near Two Harbors, MN in Lake Superior. She broke in two, the front portion quickly going to pieces while the crew huddled in back part. Only the engine was salvaged from the almost-new steel ship. One crew member lost their life. Three other separate incidents occurred further northeast. The steel schooner-barge, bulk freight Madeira was cut loose from the tow of steamer William Edenborn, when she was blown ashore by a gale and broke up at Gold Rock Point, near Split Rock, MN in Lake Superior. The two had been bound for Duluth for iron ore. The crew was saved by the heroic actions of one crewman who jumped from the tossing ship to the rock cliff with a rope in hand, then tied it up to help bring the others ashore. Only 1 crew member out of the 11 perished. In another incident nearby, the steel self-unloading barge, bulk freight Maia was torn away from her tow steamer in a violent gale and cast ashore near Split Rock, MN in Lake Superior. Heavy damage caused her to be declared a total loss immediately, but she was later recovered. Another incident occurred nearby. The wood schooner-barge, bulk freight, 2-mast Amboy, while carrying coal, was in tow of steamer George Spencer, when she struggled against the gale for a full day before finally going ashore off Sugar Loaf Landing, Little Marais, MN in Lake Superior.
See entry for previous day in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
Also on cassette tape “Lake Superior Shipwrecks – Stories by Dr. Fred Wolff See 28 Nov 1905 entry.
1859: On November 29, 1859, the wood, passenger and package freight Milwaukee, while carrying wheat, 'rolling freight [rail cars?]', was bound Milwaukee for Buffalo, when she collided in the dark with the schooner J.H. Tiffany, which was carrying railroad rails and sank, as did the schooner 5 miles west of Gray's Reef, Straits of Mackinac in Lake Michigan. Her crew took to the boats and both crews were picked up by the propeller Free State which witnessed the accident. 5 crew members perished. The Tiffany tacked in front of the Milwaukee and was rammed near the bow. Her crew tried to run the wrecked schooner to Skillagallee, but she sank first. The crew scrambled up the mast, but half were lost. She had been bound Oswego for Chicago. Most of the Tiffany's cargo was later salvaged.
1897: On November 29, 1897, the wood, package and bulk freight Nahant, while carrying iron ore, caught fire while loading at ore dock No. 4 at Escanaba and both the dock and boat were destroyed. Firefighters were hampered by sub-zero temperatures and she burned to a total loss. 2 of the 3-member crew perished.
November 30
1854: On November 30, 1854, the wood brig, 2-mast Odd Fellow, while carrying wheat, was bound Kenosha for Buffalo, when she foundered in a storm at Mackinaw City, in the Straits of Mackinac in Lake Huron. Her outfit was later salvaged by the schooner Belle.
1962: On November 30, 1962, Marquette had a record high temperature of 57F.
1976: On November 30, 1976, a record low temperature of -10F occurred at WFO Marquette.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
1978: On November 30, 1978, Delaware had 44.7 inches of snow accumulate with 21 inches of snow on the ground, the start of a very snowy winter for the winter of 1978-1979. Houghton County airport reported 54.9 inches of snow this month, the start of a very snowy winter and 31.3 inches above normal.
2001: On November 30, 2001, the warmest November on record occurred at WFO Marquette at 39.9 degrees average monthly temperature, 9.7 degrees above normal.
1926: On November 30, 1926, the steel, bulk freighter City Of Bangor, while carrying 230 automobiles, was driven sideways high up on the beach by a terrific gale at Keweenaw Point in Lake Superior. Part of her deck cargo of new Chryslers were lost overboard, most were driven ashore on an ice ramp and later refurbished at Detroit. Crew was rescued by Eagle Harbor C.G. She was cut up in place during WWII scrap drives.
See http://www.exploringthenorth.com/bangor/bangor.html
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bangor_(ship)
1929: On November 30, 1929, the steel, bulk freight '3-island steamer' Kiowa, while carrying flaxseed, had shifting of her slippery cargo in big waves during a gale which caused her to become unmanageable and strike Au Sable Reef, west of Grand Marais, MI in Lake Superior. 16 of the 21 crew were rescued, probably by local fishermen, but others also claim credit. Partially scrapped in place during the WWII scrap drives. 5 crew members perished.
1956: On November 30, 1956, the wood, bulk freight 'rabbit' White Swan, while carrying hardwood logs, stranded on Skillagallee Reef in Lake Michigan in a gale and fog, then slipped off and sank in deeper water a week later. Bound Lime Island for Petoskey. Her brand-new diesel engine was later salvaged.
2007: On November 30, 2007, a low pressure system tracked over central Upper Michigan on the evening of the 28th and brought heavy lake effect snow and blowing snow to much of western Upper Michigan from the 28th into the 30th. An observer at Twin Lakes reported a storm total snowfall of 20 inches from the evening of the 28th through early morning of the 30th. In Atlantic Mine, an estimated 11 inches of snow fell in 24 hours, while one mile southwest of Calumet, an observer measured 10 inches of snow in 24 hours. In combination with the heavy snow, gusty winds in excess of 40 miles an hour at times produced occasional whiteout conditions. The Rockland observer measured 10 inches of snow in 24 hours with a storm total accumulation of 17 inches. Winds gusting over 30 mph at times caused extensive blowing of snow and occasional whiteout conditions in Ontonagon County. A spotter 13 miles south of Grand Marais measured 13 inches of snow in a 24-hour period ending on the morning of December 1. 
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From La Crosse  http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
"This Day in Weather History" contains come memorable weather events and trivia across southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa and southwest into central Wisconsin. Many sources were used to research and compile the data.
November 1
1991: Precipitation totals on this day (liquid equivalent): In WI: La Crosse (9.2" snow), Mondovi (0.2" snow, 4.13" liquid equivalent, wettest November day), Dodge (3.42", wettest November day), Jump River (2.97"), La Crosse (2.80", wettest November day), Necedah (1.96"). In MN: Winona (5" snow, 3.28" liquid equivalent), Grand Meadow (3.14", wettest November day), Preston (3", wettest November day), Elgin (2.94"), Lanesboro (2.51"), Rochester (2.30", wettest November day). In IA: Waukon (3.45", wettest November day), Cresco (3.09", wettest November day), New Hampton (2.85").
See also "Halloween Blizzard/Ice Storm of 1991" http://www.weather.gov/arx/halloween1991
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory 
and entry for following day in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
1983: Rochester, MN (77, warmest November temperature).
1950: The mercury rose to 84 degrees in Winona, MN. This was their latest 80-degree reading and their warmest November temperature. Also, it is the warmest November temperature on record for all of Minnesota. Other warmest November temperatures on this day: In MN: Grand Meadow (78). In IA: Guttenberg (78). In WI: Neillsville (81), Platteville (80), Alma (78), Mather (78) Viroqua (78), Owen (76).
1945: Mauston, WI (3.18", wettest November day).
1944: Medford, WI (73, warmest November temperature).
1933: The mercury climbed to 80 degrees at La Crosse, WI. This was the latest 80-degree reading and also the warmest temperature ever recorded in November in La Crosse. Other locations recording their warmest November temperature: In IA: Fayette (79), Charles City (78), New Hampton (78). In WI: Hatfield (78), Mondovi (78), Richland Center (78).
1904: Prairie du Chien (84, warmest November temperature in Wisconsin).
(Checks with entry on 
http://www.aos.wisc.edu/%7Esco/clim-history/state/wihitemp.html )
November 2
1991: Hokah, MN (9"), Caledonia, MN (8"), Alma, WI (6"), Dorchester, IA (6"), Genoa, WI (6", earliest measurable snowfall), and Viroqua, WI (6") snow.
See entries for previous and following days in  http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory 
and http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
1986: Zumbro Falls, MN (6) snow.
1961: Platteville, WI (2.63") and Elkader, IA (2.41") had their wettest November day. 
November 3
1978: Dodge, WI (76, warmest November temperature).
1964: Hillsboro, WI (75), Necedah, WI (75), Trempealeau, WI (75), and Genoa, WI (74) recorded their warmest November temperatures.
1951: Cashton, WI (6") snow.
November 4
1978: Caledonia, MN (75, warmest November temperature).
1964: Mauston, WI (76, warmest November temperature).
1951: Hokah, MN (6") snow.
November 5
1959: An early winter storm brought the following snow totals: In MN: Elgin (6"). In WI: Necedah (8"), Westby (8"), Sparta (7.5"), Cashton (7"), La Crosse (6.5"), Curtiss (6"), Goodrich (6").  
See entry for following day.
November 6
1959: The snow storm that began on the 5th continued to effect the region, bringing additional snowfall totals of: In IA: Decorah (4"), New Hampton (4"), Osage (4"), Charles City (3.8"), Fayette (3"). In MN: Caledonia (4.5"), Grand Meadow (4"), La Crescent (3.5"), Lake City (3"). In WI: Viroqua (5.5"), Galesville (5"), Lynxville (4.5"), Blair (4"), Prairie du Chien (2.5"), Mauston (2.5"). 
See entry for previous day.
November 7
1949: Blair, WI (78) and Cresco, IA (72) recorded their warmest November temperature.
1943: Grand Meadow, MN (6") snow.
1938: Light snow began falling during the afternoon and evening of the 6th and then became heavier on the 7th. The snow finally tapered off to flurries during the early morning hours of the 8th. La Crosse, WI (7.5") snow.
1921: Snow began to fall in La Crosse, WI area at 12:10 PM. The snow initially melted as it fell, but after 3 PM it began to collect on the ground, trees and shrubbery. The snow continued to fall through 12:30 PM on the 8th. The weight of the heavy wet snow caused branches to break and downed telephone lines. In addition, street cars were out of commission nearly all day. La Crosse (6.9") snow.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
1915: Lancaster, WI (77, warmest November temperature).
November 8
2001: A warm front moved through into central Wisconsin. To the south of this warm front, strong southwest winds brought unseasonably warm air into the region. Temperatures across northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and southwest Wisconsin climbed into the 70s. Meanwhile, temperatures in central Wisconsin remained in the upper 40s. The highest temperature was reported in Oelwein, IA (79, warmest November temperature).
1999: Elkader, IA (79), Decorah, IA (78), Oelwein, IA (78), Austin, MN (77), Lynxville, WI (75), Jump River, WI (71) recorded their warmest November temperature.
1985: Hokah, MN (6"), Ontario, WI (6"), and Waukon, IA (6") snow.
1945: Winona, MN (3.45", wettest November day).
1921: Fayette, IA (7") snow.
November 9
1999: Osage, IA (77), Preston, MN (76), and Sparta, WI (76) had their warmest November temperature.
1997: Theilman, MN (78, latest 70 degree occurrence in a year and their warmest November temperature).
1985: Snow totals this day ranged from: In IA: Decorah (8"), Lansing (6.7"), Dorchester (6"), Osage (6"). In MN: Spring Grove (8"), Grand Meadow (6"). In WI: Richland Center (9"), Mauston (8"), Sparta (8"), Soldiers Grove (8"), Westby (7"), Necedah (6").
1975: An F1 tornado touched down during the evening in Allamakee County, IA. Trempealeau, WI (2.31", wettest November day) and Rochester, MN (2.05") rain.
1949: Waukon, IA (75, warmest November temperature).
1943: This day started a streak of 53 consecutive days without measurable precipitation in La Crosse, WI (Nov. 9th 1943 through January 3rd 1944). There were 11 days with a trace of precipitation during the streak. 
November 10
2006: An area of low pressure moved from the Southern Plains to across northern Indiana by the evening of Friday, November 10th. Precipitation developed to the north and west of this low center, moving into southeast Minnesota and northern Iowa overnight on Thursday, and then into western Wisconsin early on the morning of the 10th. Mild air was in place across the Upper Mississippi River Valley as the low moved in, resulting in a wide variety of precipitation types for the region. Showers and even a few thunderstorms affected parts of northeast Iowa, southern Wisconsin, and northern Illinois for much of day on 10th. Sleet was mixed in at times with these showers. To the north and northwest of there, enough colder air had been entrained into the storm system to create snow. A band of heavy snow set up from northern Iowa into north central Wisconsin. The movement of the surface low was such that this band sat nearly stationary over these areas for much of Friday morning. With accumulations of 1 to 2 inches per hour common, snow quickly accumulated. A 10 to 14 inch swath of snow was centered along an axis from near Austin, MN to around Withee, WI. Some snow totals from this day: In IA: Otranto (5.0).In MN: Byron (13.0), Mantorville (12.0), Kasson (11.5), Rochester (10.5), Pine Island (9.5), Oronoco (9.2), Austin (9.0), Zumbro Falls (9.0), Theilman (8.6), West Concord (8.5), Dodge Center (8.1), Stewartville (7.1), Wabasha (7.0).In WI: Osseo (16.5), Medford (13.5), Buffalo City (13.0), Longwood (12.0), Gad (11.0), Owen (10.2), Independence (10.0), Mondovi (10.0), Withee (9.5), Westboro (9.0), Goodrich (9.0), Arcadia (7.4).
1998: Very strong winds moved across southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa, and western Wisconsin. Wind gusts greater than 90 mph were recorded, with property damage estimated at 1.7 million dollars. The winds were the result of a very strong area of low pressure.
See also entries for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory  and
http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
1985: Waucoma, IA (8") and Dorchester, IA (6") snow.
1984: Harmony, MN (9") snow.
1975: Precipitation totals on this day ranged from: In MN: Theilman (2.45", wettest November day). In WI: Owen (3.50"), Alma (2.60"), Blair (2.46"), Neillsville (2.27"), Goodrich (2.26"), Hatfield (2.18"). In IA: Decorah (2.62").
1919: Prairie du Chien, WI (3.16") and Fayette, IA (2.90") had their wettest November day. 
November 11
1989: This day was the last of 16 consecutive days where a trace or more precipitation fell in La Crosse, WI. A total of 1.31" of precipitation fell during this period.
1985: Harmony, MN (9.5") snow.
1982: Hillsboro, WI (2.41", wettest November day).
1940: A rapidly deepening low pressure system moved northeast from Kansas City, MO, through the Upper Mississippi Valley, into the Upper Great Lakes where Duluth, MN reported a barometric pressure of 28.66 inches. Armistice Day began with blue skies and temperatures in the 40s and 50s. The day was so nice that duck hunters dressed in short-sleeved shirts and rushed to the marshes along the Mississippi River early that morning. However, during the late morning and early afternoon, a strong cold front moved through the region. Behind the cold front, the weather became rather blustery and the temperature plunged to the single digits by the next morning. The rain turned to sleet and eventually to driving snow. More than twenty duck hunters within a 50 mile radius of Winona, MN remained trapped on the Mississippi River by gusty winds and threatening waves. They had sought shelter on small islands and eventually froze to death. The howling winds and blinding snow brought all movement in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas to grinding halt. Winona, MN received 22" of snow and up to 17" of snow fell in Iowa. Winds estimated at 50 to 80 mph whipped snow into drifts 20 ft deep isolating whole towns. The blizzard left 49 dead in Minnesota, and gales on Lake Michigan caused ship wrecks resulting in another 59 deaths. The blizzard claimed a total of 154 lives, and killed thousands of cattle in Iowa. The storm became known as the "Armistice Day Storm". This storm along with a slow moving blizzard which would move across northern Minnesota in mid March 1941 caused the Weather Bureau to rethink its forecasting procedures. Forecasting for the entire region had been directed by the Chicago office, but in the wake of this storm, responsibilities were distributed to regional centers to provide more timely and accurate predictions.
See also "Armistice Day Storm - November 11, 1940" http://www.weather.gov/arx/nov111940
See entries for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory and
http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
1915: Medford, WI (2.65", wettest November day).
1911: 
See "The Great Blue Norther of November 11, 1911" http://www.weather.gov/arx/nov111911
https://www.weather.gov/arx/nov111911
November 12
1982: Lansing, IA (3.10"), Richland Center, WI (3.08"), Genoa, WI (2.27"), Lynxville, WI (2.22"), and Viroqua, WI (2.00") all had their wettest November day. 
November 13
1959: Mauston, WI (6.5") snow.
November 14
1951: in WI: Medford (5"), Cashton (3"), Blair (3") snow.
1909: Medford, WI (1.85") liquid equivalent precipitation.
November 15
2001: The temperature climbed to 70 degrees in La Crosse, WI. This was their fourth 70-degree day during that November, the most for any November.
1996: An ice storm occurred in Taylor County, WI. The freezing rain and drizzle fell from 4 AM to 7 PM. This caused large branches coated with ice to fall on power lines, disrupting electrical service to 1,500 people for three days. Damage was estimated at $150, 000.
1988: A pole shed was destroyed and several power lines were downed by an F0 tornado 2 miles north of Garnavillo, IA.
1960: An F2 tornado moved from 2 miles northwest of Chili, WI to 5 miles west of Wausau, WI. It damaged 3 farms and leveled a barn near Rib Mountain, WI.
1947: Grand Meadow, MN (8") snow.
1927: Mather, WI (2.16", wettest November day).
November 16
1961: Curtiss, WI (6") snow.
1956: Curtiss, WI (6") and Goodrich, WI (6") snow.
1955: Jump River, WI (7") snow.
1953: Rochester MN had a high temperature of 71 degrees. This was not only a record high for this date, but also their latest 70-degree temperature in a year. 
November 17
1978: Jump River, WI (9.5") and Mondovi, WI (6.3") snow.
1958: La Crosse, WI (2.26") and Oelwein, IA (2.10", wettest November day) rain.
November 18
1986: Waucoma, IA (7") snow.
1958: Caledonia, MN (2.67", wettest November day).
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
1957: Snowfall on this day amounted to: In IA: New Hampton (11"), Waucoma (8"), Decorah (7"), Dorchester (6"), Osage (6"). In MN: Preston (14", tied for greatest one-day snowfall with 1/22/1982), Spring Grove (11"), Rochester (9.7"), Elgin (9"), Grand Meadow (7"), Austin (6.5"), Lanesboro (6.5"), Caledonia (6"), Harmony (6"). In WI: Mondovi (7"), Sparta (6.4"), La Crosse (6.2"), Mather (6"), Viroqua (6").
1953: This day marked the last of 24 consecutive days without a trace of precipitation in La Crosse, WI.  This string began on 26 October 1953. 
1926: Fayette, IA (7") snow.
November 19
1986: Hokah, MN (7") snow.
1981: Jump River, WI (8") and Goodrich, WI (6.5") snow.
1970: Rochester, MN (6.5") snow.
1964: Rochester, MN (6.5") snow.
1957: Snowfall on this day totaled: In IA: Cresco (14", tied 3/6/1959 for the greatest one-day snowfall), Fayette (9"), Dorchester (8"), Charles City (6.5"), Decorah (6"), Waucoma (6"). In MN: La Crescent (11"), Lanesboro (10"), Wabasha (10"), Harmony (9"), Caledonia (8.1"), Winona (8"), Grand Meadow (6"). In WI: Curtiss (13", tied with 1/4/1971 for greatest one-day snowfall), Trempealeau (10"), Genoa (8"), Goodrich (8"), Jump River (8"), Neillsville (8"), Mondovi (7.5"), Owen (6").
See entries for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
and  http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
1919: Viroqua, WI (6") snow.
November 20
1996: The first snowstorm of the season brought 4-6" of snow across Buffalo, Grant, Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Richland, and Trempealeau Counties in southwest Wisconsin. The snow fell from 1 PM on the 20th to 7 AM on the 21st. This snow led to numerous accidents. A total of 49 accidents occurred in La Crosse, WI alone during an 8-hour period from 2 PM to10 PM. Damage was estimated to be $100, 000.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1986: Snow totals ranged from: In IA: Cresco (6.5"), Fayette (6.5"), Lansing (6.5"), Decorah (6.3"), Dorchester (6"), Waucoma (6"). In MN: Grand Meadow (6.5"), Harmony (6"). In WI: Galesville (6"), Mather (6"), Neillsville (6"), Richland Center (6").
1985: Hokah, MN (6") snow.
1970: Rochester, MN (6.5") and Grand Meadow, MN (6") snow.
1964: Dorchester, IA (7.2") snow.
November 21
1996: Lake City, MN (3.04" liquid equivalent) and Wabasha, MN (6" snow).
1992: Guttenberg, IA (1.77", wettest November day).
1990: La Crosse, WI (72 degrees, latest occurrence in a year of a 70-degree temperature).
1964: Readstown, WI (6") snow.
1956: Curtiss, WI (11"), Goodrich, WI (8"), Cresco, IA (7"), Cashton, WI (6.2"), Osage, IA (6"), and Grand Meadow, MN (6") snow.
1906: Viroqua, WI (6") snow.
November 22
1985: Preston, MN (6.5") and Galesville, WI (6") snow.
1963: Elgin, MN (1.82", wettest November day).
1909: Viroqua, WI (7"), La Crosse, WI (6.1"), and New Hampton, IA (6") snow.
November 23
1996: Viroqua, WI (7") snow.
1991: A winter storm dropped the following snow amounts: In IA: Oelwein (8.5"), Elkader (8"), Decorah (7.5"), Lansing (7.2"), New Hampton (7"), Dorchester (6"), Postville (6"). In MN: Hokah (12"), Preston (10"), Winona (9.5"), Rochester (7.8"), Elgin (7.5"), Lanesboro (6"), Spring Grove (6"). In WI: Cashton (13"), La Crosse (13", snowiest November day), Mondovi (11"), Westby (8.5"), Hatfield (8"), Jump River (8"), Dodge (7"), Goodrich (7"), Neillsville (6"), Ontario (6").
See entry for 24 Nov 1991 in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
1983: Austin, MN (6") snow.
1981: Waukon, IA (6") snow.
1978: Preston, MN (6") snow.
1977: Oelwein, IA (7"), Cashton, WI (6"), Dorchester, IA (6"), Elkader, IA (6"), and Muscoda, WI (6") snow.
1950: Lancaster, WI had a high temperature of 51 degrees and low temperature of minus 2 degrees. This 53-Fahrenheit degree temperature difference is the greatest ever recorded there.
1931: Charles City, IA (3.81") and Osage, IA (2.65") had their wettest November day.
November 24
1991: Snow totals ranged from: In IA: Lansing (8"), New Hampton (6"). In MN: La Crescent (10"), Caledonia (7"), Lanesboro (6"). In WI: Mather (18", greatest one-day snowfall), Viroqua (12"), Alma (11"), Owen (8"), Prairie du Chien (8"), Sparta (8"), Goodrich (6.5"), Genoa (6").
See entry for 23 Nov 1991 in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory
1983: Lake City, MN (6.5") snow.
1981: Dorchester, IA (6") snow.
1950: Jump River, WI (10") snow.
November 25
1993: Heavy snow fell over portions of northwest, north-central and central Wisconsin with amounts ranging from 6-13". Snow covered roads led to multiple accidents. Browning, WI (13" snow) and Austin, MN (2.5" liquid equivalent, wettest November day).
See entry for 24 Nov 1993 in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory for "The Thanksgiving Day Blizzard of 1993."
1992: Oelwein, IA (7") snow.
1965: Goodrich, WI (6") snow.
1952: Rochester, MN (10.6") snow.
1950: Neillsville, WI (-16, coldest November temperature).
1895: La Crosse, WI (6.6") snow.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
1883: An F3 tornado moved northeast from near Bridgeport, WI. A woman was killed as her farm house and stable were leveled and swept away. Also, two people were injured. 
November 26
1993: Owen, WI (6") snow.
1992: Snowfall totals on this day amounted to: In IA: Lansing (7.3"), Dorchester (7"), New Hampton (7"), Charles City (6.2"), Waukon (6"). In IA: Fayette (6.6"). In MN: Caledonia (8"), Lanesboro (8"), Spring Grove (7"), Harmony (6"). In WI: Readstown (9.5"), Mauston (9"), Gays Mills (8"), La Farge (8"), Richland Center (8"), Steuben (8"), Necedah (7"), Ontario (7"), Lancaster (6.5" snow, 2.74" liquid equivalent, wettest November day), Muscoda (6.3"), Hillsboro (6"), Westby (6").
1991: Mondovi, WI (-13, coldest November temperature).
1977: Low temperatures ranged from: In MN: Austin (-25), Preston (-19), Theilman (-17), Caledonia (-16), Winona (-11).In IA: Fayette (-20), Oelwein (-18), Decorah (-16), Osage (-15), Charles City (-14), New Hampton (-14), Guttenberg (-11).In WI: Dodge (-18), Mauston (-18), Prairie du Chien (-17), Viroqua (-17), Lancaster (-15), Platteville (-14), Alma (-10), Genoa (-9), Trempealeau (-9), Lynxville (-8).
1970: Mondovi, WI (7") snow.
1952: Grand Meadow, MN (9") and Elgin, MN (7") snow.
1942: Viroqua, WI (7") and Grand Meadow, MN (6") snow.
November 27
1996: Hillsboro, WI (-10, coldest November temperature).
1995: A major winter storm lashed out at the southern two thirds of Wisconsin with thunder (on the 27th in the triangular area bounded by cities of Green Bay, Madison, and Milwaukee), heavy snow of 6-14" (between Milwaukee and Madison), sleet, freezing rain, strong gusty winds, and near-blizzard whiteout conditions. Preceding the snow over southern Wisconsin there was a two- to six-hour period of sleet and/or freezing rain which glazed road surfaces. This was a dangerous storm which was anticipated by forecasters 2 days in advance. The path of the responsible low pressure was from northern Missouri to southern Ontario, Canada. Lone Rock (11"), Richland Center (10"), Owen (8"), Mondovi (7"), Viroqua (6") snow.
1991: Hillsboro, WI (6.5") and Mauston, WI (6") snow.
1985: Ontario, WI (6") snow.
1977: Sparta, WI (-18 degrees, coldest November temperature). La Crescent, MN (6") snow.
1949: Goodrich, WI (7.5") snow.
1937: Rain changed over snow during the late morning and continued to fall through the evening. La Crosse, WI (6.6") and Winona, MN (6") snow.
1896: A strong polar cold front brought an end to the Indian Summer weather, which southwest Wisconsin had enjoyed since November 25th. During this time period, temperatures were rather balmy for late November with high temperatures ranging from the middle 50s to lower 60s each day. However, once the cold front moved through temperatures fell into the single digits. In Viroqua, WI, the temperature fell from a high of 57 to 6 degrees. This 51- Fahrenheit degree diurnal temperature change is still the largest ever recorded there. 
November 28
1995: Snow totals ranged from: In IA: Fayette (6.2"). In WI: Muscoda (8.8"), Lynxville (8"), Richland Center (8"), Platteville (7.9"), Prairie du Chien (7").
1994: Neillsville, WI (7") snow.
1985: In WI: Mather (7"), Jump River (6.5"), and Necedah (6") snow.
1983: Some snow totals on this day: In MN: Austin (10"), Wabasha (6.2"). In WI: Mondovi (9"), Jump River (8.5"), Goodrich (6"), Owen (6").
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1977: La Crescent, MN (10") and Readstown, WI (10") snow.
1976: Owen, WI (-18, coldest November temperature).
1942: Winona, MN (6") snow.
1937: Mather, WI had a high temperature of 52 degrees and low temperature of -6 degrees. This 58-Fahrenheit degree temperature difference is the greatest ever recorded there.
1930: Mather, WI (-12, coldest November temperature).
1918: Fayette, IA (9.5"), La Crosse, WI (6"), and New Hampton, IA (6") snow. Snow was heavy during the middle of the day at La Crosse and light after 2 PM.
1887: Cresco, IA (-25) and Rochester, MN (-24) had their coldest November temperature. Cresco set an Iowa state record for the coldest November temperature. 
November 29
1988: Cashton, WI (10"), Waukon, IA (7"), Decorah, IA (6"), Hokah, MN (6"), Necedah, WI (6"), and Ontario, WI (6") snow.
1983: Grand Meadow, MN (7") and Minnesota City, MN (6") snow.
1978: Lake City, MN (6") snow.
1976: Hatfield, WI (-24) and Waukon, IA (-13) had their coldest November temperature.
1971: New Hampton, IA (6") snow.
1925: Fayette, IA (6.5") and New Hampton, IA (6") snow.
1919: Snow began during the early morning hours of the 28th and continued through the evening of the 29th. La Crosse (8.4") snow.
1875: La Crosse, WI (-21, coldest November temperature).
November 30
2001: Rochester, MN (0.4") snow. This was the latest first occurrence of measurable snow in Rochester.
1991: Jump River, WI (6") snow.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1988: 6" of snow fell in these following Wisconsin locations: Mauston, Viroqua, Mather, Trempealeau, and Westby. La Crescent, MN (6") snow.
1985: Ontario, WI (11"), Hokah, MN (8"), and Austin, MN (6") snow.
1976: Jump River, WI (-31), Medford, WI (-19), and Necedah, WI (-19) had their coldest November temperature.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
1974: Dorchester, IA (6") snow.
1964: Blair, WI (-8, coldest November temperature).
1947: Richland Center, WI (-17, coldest November temperature).
1940: Snow began falling during the evening of the 29th and continued through the afternoon of the 30th. La Crosse (7") snow.
1934: Snow began falling during the evening of the 29th and continued into the early morning hours of December 1st. New Hampton, IA (15"), Fayette, IA (13"), La Crosse (12.8", snowiest November day), Grand Meadow, MN (9"), Viroqua, WI (8") snow.
1928: Fayette, IA (9.5") snow.
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From http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dmx/WxHistory.php On This Day in Iowa Weather History
November 11
1940: An unusually severe early season winter storm dubbed "The Armistice Day Blizzard" struck northern Iowa on November 11-12 with heavy snow, high winds, and bitter cold causing widespread damage and suffering. Primghar reported a storm total of 17.0 inches of snow while Cushing received 13.0 inches and Estherville and Sanborn 12.0 inches each. As a cold front passed through with the storm the temperature plummeted rapidly, by as much as 30 degrees in two hours at some locations, and on subsequent days reached such cold levels that a number of stations reported record low temperatures for so early in the season. The timing of the storm which came at the end of a holiday weekend meant that many people were caught away from home and unprepared for winter weather of this magnitude. Automobile accidents, stalled cars, frozen radiators, and snow drifts over the roads made travel nearly impossible as the storm moved through. Seven people were killed in Iowa, including three whose small plane crashed into Spirit Lake and four hunters who were caught in duck blinds along the Mississippi River and drowned or died of exposure. In neighboring states, especially Minnesota and Wisconsin, there were higher numbers of fatalities amongst hunters as unusually large numbers of ducks were observed on the morning of the 11th and many went out to hunt them and were caught unprepared in the storm, eventually freezing to death. A total of 154 people were killed across the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. Large numbers of livestock perished in the open fields with nearly 4,000 cattle, sheep, and hogs estimated to have been lost. The greatest loss of farm animals was turkeys with between 150,000 and 200,000 of the birds frozen or smothered. It was also estimated that 10 to 15 million bushels of corn were lost in Iowa.
November 11
1911: The infamous "Great Blue Norther" or "11/11/11 Blue Norther" swept across the Great Plains and upper Midwest then later into the eastern United States. As the powerful cold front raced across the region a few strong thunderstorms developed across far southeastern Iowa with a tornado tracking just northwest of Davenport. However, the most notable aspect of this system was the incredible drop in temperature that accompanied the front. Several locations throughout the central U.S. especially in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Illinois set both daily record high and low temperatures within a 24 hour period. These sharp temperature changes were most pronounced in regions where the cold front passed through during the afternoon and evening after ample time had passed during the daytime hours for heating to occur. Across most of Iowa the front moved through during the morning so temperatures were never able to climb very far, but in southeastern Iowa the 11th started clear and warm with the temperature rising into the 70s at many stations by early afternoon. Between noon and 2 pm the cold front swept rapidly through that corner of the state and rain began then changed over to sleet then snow with blizzard conditions reported in some areas as strong northwesterly winds followed the front. At Keokuk the temperature peaked at 79 F at around noon before the cold front moved through, then fell 37 degrees in just one hour between 1:55 pm and 2:55 pm and another 28 degrees to just 14 F by midnight with an inch of sleet falling during the afternoon and evening. The high temperature in Keokuk the following day was only 17 F which is 62 degrees colder than their high on the 11th. At Albia an observer noted that the temperature rose to 72 F by mid-morning, then the front moved through with rain changing to snow and blizzard conditions ensuing as the temperature fell all the way to 5 F by 9 pm making a drop of 67 degrees in just under 12 hours. At Burlington the temperature fell from 77 F in the early afternoon to 10 F later that night. By the morning of the 12th temperatures had fallen below zero across northwestern Iowa and lows on this and the subsequent few days neared or broke records at numerous locations for the coldest temperatures on record so early in the season. In fact the coldest temperature of the entire month in Iowa was reached on the 12th when Guthrie Center recorded a low of -8 F.
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http://www.weather.gov/ddc/novtrivia
Weather trivia for November
Nov 1, 1861
A hurricane near Cape Hatteras NC battered a Union fleet of ships attacking Carolina ports, and produced high tides and high winds in New York state and New England.
Nov 2, 1946
A heavy wet snow began to cover the Southern Rockies. Up to three feet of snow blanketed the mountains of New Mexico, and a 31-inch snow at Denver CO caused roofs to collapse.
Nov 3, 1927
Somerset, VT was deluged with 8.77 inches of rain to establish a  24-hour record for the state.
Nov 4, 1927
A great Vermont flood occurred. Tropical rains deluged the Green Mountain area of Vermont causing the worst flood in the history of the state. Torrential rains, up to 15 inches in the higher elevations, sent streams on a rampage devastating the Winooski Valley. Flooding claimed 200 lives and caused 40 million dollars damage. The town of Vernon reported 84 deaths. Flooding left up to eight to ten feet of water in downtown Montpelier, Vermont.
Nov 5, 1977
A slow moving storm produced 5 to 9 inch rains across northern Georgia causing the Toccoa Dam to burst. As the earthen dam collapsed the waters rushed through the Toccoa Falls Bible College killing 3 persons in the dorms. Thirty-eight persons perished at a trailer park along the stream.
Nov 6, 1951
Snow fell from the Texas Panhandle to the Lower Great Lakes, leaving record totals of 12.5 inches at Saint Louis Missouri, and 14.1 inches at Springfield Missouri. Other heavier snowfall totals included 20 inches at Nevada Missouri, 13.5 inches at Sedan Kansas, 13 inches at Decatur Illinois, and 10 inches at Alva Oklahoma. In the Saint Louis area, up to 20 inches was reported in Washington County.
Nov 7, 1940
The Galloping Gertie Bridge at Tacoma Washington collapsed in strong winds resulting in a six million dollar loss, just four months after the grand opening of the new bridge. The winds caused the evenly sized spans of the bridge to begin to vibrate until the central one finally collapsed. From then on bridges were constructed with spans of varying size.
IN 1951...A blinding flash, a huge ball of fire, and a terrific roar occurred over parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, caused by a disintegrating meteor. Windows were broken in and near Hinton OK by the concussion.
Nov 8, 1870
The first storm warning was issued by the U.S. Signal Corps Weather Service.
IN 1953...Residents of New York City suffered through ten days of smog resulting in 200 deaths. 
IN 1980...The high of 91 degrees established the record high for the month of November at Dodge City.
Nov 9, 1913
A rapidly deepening cyclone caused unpredicted gales on the Great Lakes. Eight large ore carriers on Lake Erie sank drowning 270 sailors. Cleveland Ohio reported 17.4 inches of snow in 24 hours, and a total of 22.2 inches.
Nov 10, 1915
A tornado moved northeast from 2 miles south of Pratt to 2 miles east of town. Four or five farms were torn apart and livestock were killed. Homes and barns were unroofed and blown down. Grain and the remains of barns were scattered across acres of fields. An unusually late season tornado struck the central Kansas town of Great Bend killing eleven persons along its 35 mile track. The tornado destroyed 160 homes in Great Bend killing 11 persons and causing a million dollars damage. Hundreds of dead ducks dropped from the sky northeast of the track's end.
IN 1975...Another "freshwater fury" hit the Great Lakes. A large ore carrier on Lake Superior, the Edmund Fitzgerald, sank near Crisp Point with the loss of its crew of 29 men. A popular hit song by Gordon Lightfoot was inspired by the storm.
Nov 11, 1911
The central US experienced perhaps its most dramatic cold wave of record. During the early morning hours, temperatures across the Central Plains ranged from 68 degrees at Kansas City to 4 above at North Platte. In Kansas City, the temperature warmed to a record 76 degrees by late morning before the arctic front moved in from the northwest, and the mercury began to plummet. By early afternoon it was cold enough to snow, and by midnight the temperature had dipped to a record cold reading of 11 degrees above zero. In southeastern Kansas, the temperature at Independence plunged from 83 degrees to 33 degrees in just one hour.
IN 1940...An Armistice Day storm raged across the Great Lakes Region and the Upper Midwest. A blizzard left 49 dead in Minnesota, and gales on Lake Michigan caused ship wrecks resulting in another 59 deaths. Up to 17 inches of snow fell in Iowa. The blizzard claimed a total of 154 lives, and in Iowa, killed thousands of cattle. Whole towns were isolated by huge snowdrifts.
Nov 12, 1974
A great Alaska storm in the Bering Sea caused the worst coastal flooding of memory at Nome AK with a tide of 13.2 feet. The flooding caused 12 million dollars damage, however no lives were lost.
Nov 13, 1933
The first dust storm of the great dust bowl era of the 1930s occurred. The dust storm, which had spread from Montana to the Ohio Valley the day before, prevailed from Georgia to Maine resulting in a black rain over New York and a brown snow in Vermont. Parts of South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa reported zero visibility on the 12th. On the 13th, dust reduced the visibility to half a mile in Tennessee.
IN 1946...General Electric scientists produced snow in the Massachusetts Berkshires in the first modern day cloud seeding experiment.
Nov 14, 1986
An early season cold wave set more than 200 records from the northwestern US to the east coast over a seven day period. For some places it proved to be the coldest weather of the winter season.
Nov 15, 1989
There were one hundred reports of damaging winds in Georgia, and  five tornadoes, and there were another four tornadoes in Alabama.  Hardest hit was Huntsville AL where a violent tornado killed twenty-one persons, injured 463 others, and caused one hundred million dollars damage.
IN 1996...Very heavy rains fell in the Kinsley area. The Little Coon Creek was out of its banks and several fields and roads were flooded. Flooding also occurred in the northern part of Kinsley. The flooding subsided on the 18th.
Nov 16, 1959
The most severe November cold wave in U.S. history was in progress.  A weather observing station located 14 miles northeast of Lincoln MT reported a reading of 53 degrees below zero, which established an all-time record low temperature for the nation for the month of November.   Their high that day was one degree above zero.
IN 1996...A thunderstorm that hit Garden City during the early morning hours produced a burst of wind at the Walmart store that tossed a car into a light pole, toppled semi tractor trailers and broke out 25 car windows.
Nov 17, 1927
A tornado cut a seventeen mile path across Alexandria and southeastern Washington DC injuring 31 persons. The tornado struck the Naval Air
Station where a wind gust of 93 mph was recorded. A waterspout was seen over the Potomac River ninety minutes later.
Nov 18, 1948
A blizzard raged across southwest Kansas. Winds were howling in the 40 to 50 mph range with gusts to 60 mph. Travel was near impossible.
Nov 19, 1930
A tornado moved northeast from 1 mile west of Victoria. A school was destroyed 15 miles northeast of Victoria. The teacher and 14 students were injured, some seriously. Barns were also destroyed.
Nov 20, 1900
An unusual tornado outbreak in the Lower Mississippi Valley resulted in 73 deaths and extensive damage across Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Nov 21, 1798
A four day storm was in progress in the northeastern US. The storm dropped a foot of snow on New York City and New Haven, and as much as three feet in Maine and New Hampshire. The snowstorm ushered in a long and severe winter, in some places the ground remained covered with snow until the following May.
Nov 22, 1957
Extremely destructive Santa Ana winds blew from Oxnard to San Diego and inland parts of southern California. The high winds produced a 28,000-acre brush fire on a 40 mile front west of Crystal Lake. People were ordered off streets in some areas due to flying debris.
Nov 23, 1909
Rattlesnake Creek in Idaho was deluged with 7.17 inches of rain in 24 hours to establish a state record.
Nov 24, 1992
A major winter storm and blizzard occurred across southwest Kansas from the early morning through the late morning on the 25th. The storm developed in the Texas Panhandle on the 23rd and moved into central Oklahoma on the 24th. Heavy snow and blizzard conditions occurred across a large area of southwest Kansas.   Snowfall amounts ranged from 17 inches at Liberal to 15 inches at Garden City and Dodge City. This snow began a period that marked the snowiest winter on record for Dodge City. Over sixty inches of snow was recorded at the National Weather Service in Dodge City for the 92-93 season. Snow was on the ground nearly continuously into March. Most roads and highways in the Garden City, Dodge City, Meade, Greensburg, Coldwater, and Liberal areas were closed with snowdrifts of two to five feet. Snowdrifts as high as 15 feet were reported in the  Hugoton area. Widespread visibilities of 1/4 of a mile and less were also reported from the early afternoon through early morning of the 25th. Winds as high as 45 mph were reported across the area. There were two fatalities from this snowstorm. Estimates from area farmers and feed lot owners indicated that as many as 5,000 head of cattle may have perished during the storm.
Nov 25, 1987
An early morning thunderstorm in southeastern Texas produced high winds which rolled a mobile home east of Bay City killing two of the four occupants. Thunderstorms produced locally heavy rains in central and eastern Texas, with nine inches reported at Huntsville and 8.5 inches at Wimberly. Snow fell across northern and central Lower Michigan, with totals ranging up to nine inches at Cadillac.
Nov 26, 1950
A great storm hit the Northern and Central Appalachians with snow and high winds. Winds reached 110 mph at Concord New Hampshire and 160 mph at Mount Washington New Hampshire. The storm produced record snowfall totals of 27.7 inches at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and 36.3 inches at Steubenville, Ohio. The snow and record temperatures resulted in 160 deaths.
Nov 27, 1887
The low of 13 degrees below zero set the record low for the month of November at Dodge City.
IN 1898...The "Portland" storm raged across New England producing gale force winds along the coast and heavy snow inland. A passenger ship, the S.S. Portland, sank off Cape Cod with the loss of all 191 persons aboard, and Boston Harbor was filled with wrecked ships. The storm wrecked 56 vessels resulting in a total of 456 casualties.
Nov 28, 1960
A severe storm produced waves of 20 to 40 feet high on Lake Superior.  Duluth MN was buried under a foot of snow, and clocked wind gusts to 73 mph. The northern shore of Lake Superior was flooded and property along the shore was battered. Thousands of cords of pulpwood were washed into Lake Superior, and up to three feet of water flooded the main street of Grand Marais. Thunder accompanied the nor' easter.
Nov 29, 1975
Red River, NM was buried under 34 inches of snow in 24 hours, which established a state record.
Nov 30, 1976
MacLeod Harbor, AK reported a precipitation total for November of 70.99 inches, which established a state record for any month of the year.

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Weather History
For Friday, November 1, 2013
1861 - A hurricane near Cape Hatteras, NC, battered a Union fleet of ships attacking Carolina ports, and produced high tides and high winds in New York State and New England. (David Ludlum)
1966 - Santa Anna winds fanned fires, and brought record November heat to parts of coastal California. November records included 86 degrees at San Francisco, 97 degrees at San Diego, and 101 degrees at the International airport in Los Angeles. Fires claimed the lives of at least sixteen firefighters. (The Weather Channel)
1968 - A tornado touched down west of Winslow, AZ, but did little damage in an uninhabited area. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Early morning thunderstorms in central Arizona produced hail an inch in diameter at Williams and Gila Bend, and drenched Payson with 1.86 inches of rain. Hannagan Meadows AZ, meanwhile, was blanketed with three inches of snow. Unseasonably warm weather prevailed across the Ohio Valley. Afternoon highs of 76 degrees at Beckley WV, 77 degrees at Bluefield WV, and 83 degrees at Lexington KY were records for the month of November. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Low pressure brought gales and locally heavy rain to the northeastern U.S. The rainfall total of 1.46 inches at Newark NJ was a record for the date. New York City was soaked with more than two inches of rain. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - A strong cold front ushered snow and arctic air into the north central U.S. Snow whitened North Dakota and the Central High Plains Region. Up to five inches of snow blanketed Denver CO. Yellowstone Park WY was the cold spot in the nation with a morning low of 4 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
Weather History
For Saturday, November 2, 2013
1946 - A heavy wet snow began to cover the Southern Rockies. Up to three feet of snow blanketed the mountains of New Mexico, and a 31 inch snow at Denver CO caused roofs to collapse. (David Ludlum)
1961 - The temperature at Atlanta, GA, reached 84 degrees to establish a record for November. (The Weather Channel)
1966 - A storm brought 18 inches of snow to Celia KY in 24 hours. It tied the state 24 hour snowfall record first established at Bowling Green. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A dozen cities, mostly in the Ohio Valley, reported record high temperatures for the date. Record highs included 83 degrees at Paducah KY and 84 degrees at Memphis TN. Temperatures reached 70 degrees as far north as southern Lower Michigan. Showers and thundershowers over southern Florida, associated with a tropical depression, produced 4.77 inches of rain at Tavernier, located in the Upper Florida Keys. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - A very intense low pressure system brought heavy rain, snow, and high winds, to parts of the northeastern U.S. Portland ME established a record for November with 4.52 inches of rain in 24 hours, and winds along the coast of Maine gusted to 74 mph at Southwest Harbor. Heavy snow blanketed parts of northern Vermont and upstate New York, with 15 inches reported at Spruce Hill NY. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Squalls in the Upper Great Lakes Region the first three days of the month buried Ironwood MI under 46 inches of snow, and produced 40 inches at Hurley WI. Arctic cold invaded the Southern Plains Region. Midland TX reported a record low of 22 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
Weather History
For Sunday, November 3, 2013
1890 - The temperature at Los Angeles, CA, reached 96 degrees, a November record for 76 years. (David Ludlum)
1927 - Somerset VT was deluged with 8.77 inches of rain to establish a 24 hour record for the state. (3rd-4th) (The Weather Channel)
1961 - A rare November thunderstorm produced snow at Casper, WY. (3rd-4th) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Twenty-one cities, mostly in the Ohio Valley, reported record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 80 degrees at Columbus OH was their warmest reading of record for so late in the season. Showers and thundershowers associated with a tropical depression south of Florida produced 4.28 inches of rain at Clewiston in 24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - A sharp cold front brought about an abrupt end to Indian Summer in the north central U.S. Up to a foot of snow blanketed Yellowstone Park WY, and winds in the mountains near the Washoe Valley of southeastern Wyoming gusted to 78 mph. Unseasonably warm weather continued in the south central U.S. Del Rio TX tied Laredo TX and McAllen TX for honors as the hot spot in the nation with a record warm afternoon high of 91 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Cold weather prevailed in the central U.S. Six cities in Texas, Minnesota, and Michigan, reported record low temperatures for the date. The low of 7 above zero at Marquette MI was their coldest reading of record for so early in the season. (The National Weather Summary) 
Weather History
For Monday, November 4, 2013
1927 - A great Vermont flood occurred. Tropical rains deluged the Green Mountain area of Vermont causing the worst flood in the history of the state. Torrential rains, up to 15 inches in the higher elevations, sent streams on a rampage devastating the Winooski Valley. Flooding claimed 200 lives and caused 40 million dollars damage. The town of Vernon reported 84 deaths. Flooding left up to eight to ten feet of water in downtown Montpelier VT. (2nd-4th) (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1985 - A super wet Gulf storm dumped upwards of fifteen inches of rain in the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia causing devastating damage and claiming forty lives. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1987 - Thirty-two cities in the eastern and south central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Highs of 74 degrees at Portland ME and 86 degrees at Fort Smith AR equalled November records. It was the fourth day of record warmth for Beckley WV, Memphis TN and Paducah KY. A cold front ushered much colder air into the north central U.S. Gale force winds lashed all five Great Lakes. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a fast moving cold front produced severe weather over the Tennessee Valley and the Central Gulf Coast States during the afternoon and evening hours, and into the next morning. Thunderstorms spawned nineteen tornadoes, including eleven in Mississippi. The last of the nineteen tornadoes killed a woman in her mobile home in Lee FL. A tornado in Culbert AL injured sixteen people, and caused two million dollars damage. Thunderstorms also produced baseball size hail in Alabama. Unseasonably hot air prevailed south of the cold front. McAllen TX was the hot spot in the nation with a high of 102 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Snow and high winds plagued parts of Colorado and Wyoming. Winds gusted to 71 mph near Wheatland WY, and reached 80 mph west of Fort Collins CO. Up to five inches of snow blanketed Yellowstone Park WY closing many roads. Snow also blanketed northern Minnesota, with seven inches reported at Baudette. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Tuesday, November 5, 2013
1894 - The famous Election Day snowstorm occurred in Connecticut. As much as a foot of wet snow fell, and the snow and high winds caused great damage to wires and trees. Winds gusted to 60 mph at Block Island RI. (David Ludlum)
1961 - Strong Santa Ana winds fanned the flames of the Bel Air and Brentwood fires in southern California destroying many homes. At 10 PM the Los Angeles Civic Center reported a temperature of 74 degrees along with a dew point of 5 degrees. On the 6th, Burbank reported a relative humidity of three percent. (The Weather Channel)
1977 - A slow moving storm produced five to nine inch rains across northern Georgia causing the Toccoa Dam to burst. As the earthen dam collapsed the waters rushed through the Toccoa Falls Bible College killing three persons in the dorms. Thirty-eight persons perished at a trailer park along the stream. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Low pressure off the California coast produced stormy weather in the southwestern U.S. Flash flooding stranded 8000 persons in the Death Valley National Park of southern California. Thunder- storms over southern Nevada produced dime size hail and wind gusts to 68 mph around Las Vegas. Unseasonably mild weather in the northeastern U.S. was replaced with snow and gale force winds. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - A powerful low pressure system produced high winds from the Great Plains to New England, and produced heavy snow in northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Winds gusted to 64 mph at Knoxville TN, and reached 80 mph at Pleasant Valley VT. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Temperatures warmed into the 80s across much of Texas. Highs of 86 degrees at Abilene, Fort Worth and San Angelo were records for the date. (The National Weather Summary)
2002 - Severe thunderstorms moved across southeastern Alabama and the Florida panhandle, producing wind damage and several tornadoes. A tornado struck the Alabama town of Abbeville killing 2 people and injuring 25 (Associated Press). 
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Weather History
For Wednesday, November 6, 2013
1951 - Snow fell from the Texas panhandle to the Lower Great Lakes, leaving record totals of 12.5 inches at Saint Louis MO, and 14.1 inches at Springfield MO. Other heavier snowfall totals included 20 inches at Nevada MO, 13.5 inches at Sedan KS, 13 inches at Decature IL, and 10 inches at Alva OK. In the Saint Louis area, up to 20 inches was reported in Washington County. (5th- 6th) (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - High winds in the northeastern U.S., turning a recent warm spell into a distant memory, gusted to 63 mph at Rhode Island. Squalls resulting from the high winds produced five inches of snow at Marquette MI and seven inches at Rome NY. A storm in the southwestern U.S. brought heavy snow to some of the higher elevations of Arizona, Colorado and Utah. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - A powerful low pressure system over the Great Lakes Region continued to produce snow across parts of the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes Region. Snowfall totals along the shore of Lake Superior reached 24 inches, with three feet of snow reported in the Porcupine Mountain area of Upper Michigan. Marquette MI established a November record with 17.3 inches of snow in 24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Unseasonably warm weather prevailed in the south central and southeastern U.S. Nine cities from Florida to Oklahoma and Texas reported record high temperatures for the date as readings warmed into the 80s. The high of 89 degrees at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport in Texas equalled their record for November. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
2005 - Severe thunderstorms produced a deadly tornado near Evansville, Indiana during the early morning hours of November 6. There were 23 fatalities from the tornado, with 19 of the deaths occurring in the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park located just to the southeast of the city (Associated Press). It was Indiana's deadliest tornado since the Super Outbreak on April 3, 1974. 
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Weather History
For Thursday, November 7, 2013
1940 - The Galloping Gertie bridge at Tacoma, WA, collapsed in strong winds resulting in a six million dollar loss, just four months after the grand opening of the new bridge. The winds caused the evenly sized spans of the bridge to begin to vibrate until the central one finally collapsed. From that point on bridges were constructed with spans of varying size. (David Ludlum)
1951 - At 7 AM a blinding flash, a huge ball of fire, and a terrific roar occurred over parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, caused by a disintegrating meteor. Windows were broken in and near Hinton OK by the concussion. (The Weather Channel)
1986 - An early season blizzard struck the Northern Plains Region. North Dakota took the brunt of the storm with wind gusts to 70 mph, and snowfall totals ranged up to 25 inches at Devils Lake. (Storm Data)
1987 - Heavy snow fell across parts of eastern New York State overnight, with twelve inches reported at the town of Piseco, located in the Mohawk Valley. A storm in the southwestern U.S. left nine inches of snow at the Winter Park ski resort in Colorado. Smoke from forest fires reduced visibilities to less than a mile at some locations from North Carolina to Ohio and Pennsylvania. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Unseasonably warm weather continued across the state of Texas. Seven cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Waco and Del Rio with readings of 92 degrees. McAllen was the hot spot in the nation with a high of 96 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Shortly after daybreak strong thunderstorms developed over a narrow, but almost stationary, east-west band across New Orleans, in southeastern Louisiana. As a result, heavy rains persisted over the same area until mid afternoon before tapering off, and triggered flash flooding across a five county area. Eight to twelve inch rains deluged the area between 9 AM and 6 PM, and totals for the 48 hour period ending at 7 AM on the 8th ranged up to 19.78 inches, between Lake Lexy and Lake Borgne. Approximately 6000 homes in the area reported water damage. The rainfall total for November of 19.81 inches at New Orleans was their highest total for any given month of the year. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Friday, November 8, 2013
1870 - The first storm warning was issued by the U.S. Signal Corps Weather Service. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1943 - An early season snowstorm raged across eastern South Dakota and Minnesota into northern Wisconsin. The storm produced 22 inches of snow at Fairbult and Marshall MN, 20 inches at Redwood Falls MN, and 10.1 inches at Minneapolis. Drifts fifteen feet high were reported in Cottonwood County MN. The storm produced up to two feet of snow in South Dakota smothering a million Thanksgiving day turkeys. (6th-8th) (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1953 - Residents of New York City suffered through ten days of smog resulting in 200 deaths. (The Weather Channel)
1966 - The temperature in downtown San Francisco reached a November record of 86 degrees. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms over Texas produced locally heavy rains in the Hill Country, with 3.50 inches reported at Lakeway, and 3.72 inches reported at Anderson Mill. Thunderstorms over Louisiana produced hail an inch in diameter at Clay and at Provencial. Blustery northwest winds, ushering cold air into western Kansas and into northwest Texas, gusted to 46 mph at Hill City KS. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Fair weather prevailed across much of the nation for Election Day. Midland TX equalled their record for November with an afternoon high of 89 degrees, and the record high of 87 degrees at Roswell NM was their fifth in eight days. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Afternoon and evening thunderstorms developing along and ahead of a cold front produced severe weather from northern Louisiana into central Georgia. Thunderstorms spawned three tornadoes, and there were sixty-four reports of large hail or damaging winds. A late afternoon thunderstorm in central Georgia spawned a tornado which killed one person and injured eight others at Pineview. Late afternoon thunderstorms in central Mississippi produced baseball size hail around Jackson, and wind gusts to 70 mph Walnut Grove. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
Weather History
For Saturday, November 9, 2013
1913 - The freshwater fury , a rapidly deepening cyclone, caused unpredicted gales on the Great Lakes. Eight large ore carriers on Lake Erie sank drowning 270 sailors. Cleveland OH reported 17.4 inches of snow in 24 hours, and a total of 22.2 inches, both all-time records for that location. During the storm, winds at Cleveland averaged 50 mph, with gusts to 79 mph. The storm produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Buffalo NY, and buried Pickens WV under three feet of snow. (9th-11th) (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1926 - A tornado in Charles County of southern Maryland killed seventeen persons. (The Weather Channel)
1982 - Seven tornadoes touched down in southern California, three of which began as waterspouts. The waterspouts moved ashore at Point Mugu, Malibu, and Long Beach. The Long Beach tornado traveled inland ten miles causing much damage. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Showers and gusty winds associated with a cold front helped extinguish forest fires in the Appalachian Region and clear out smoke in the eastern U.S. Thunderstorms produced locally heavy rains from eastern Texas to the Tennessee Valley. Longview TX received 3.12 inches of rain, including two inches in two hours, Tupelo MS was soaked with 2.80 inches of rain. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a strong cold front produced severe weather from eastern Oklahoma to central Indiana. Hail more than two inches in diameter was reported around Tulsa OK. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - High winds prevailed along the eastern slopes of the Rockies from the afternoon of the 8th into the early morning hours of the 9th. Winds of 50 to 80 mph prevailed across the northwest chinook area of Wyoming, with gusts to 100 mph. Winds in Colorado gusted to 97 mph at Fritz Peak (located near Rollinsville) the evening of the 8th, and early in the morning on the 9th, gusted to 78 mph west of Fort Collins. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1996 - The Veteran's Day storm of November 9-14, 1996 may be the most severe early season lake effect snow (LES) storm the Great Lakes has witnessed in the past fifty years. At the height of the storm, over 160,000 customers were without power in Greater Cleveland alone, as the storm produced isolated snowfall tallies approaching 70 . As usual with these LES events, the Veteran's Day storm battered snowbelt communities downwind of each of the Great Lakes while nearby towns went unscathed. (University of Illimois WW2010) 
Weather History
For Sunday, November 10, 2013
1915 - An unusually late season tornado struck the central Kansas town of Great Bend killing eleven persons along its 35 mile track. The tornado destroyed 160 homes in Great Bend killing 11 persons and causing a million dollars damage. Hundreds of dead ducks dropped from the sky northeast of the track's end. (The Weather Channel)
1975 - Another freshwater fury hit the Great Lakes. A large ore carrier on Lake Superior, the Edmund Fitzgerald, sank near Crisp Point with the loss of its crew of 29 men. Eastern Upper Michigan and coastal Lower Michigan were hardest hit by the storm, which produced wind gusts to 71 at Sault Ste Marie MI, and gusts to 78 mph at Grand Rapids MI. Severe land and road erosion occurred along the Lake Michigan shoreline. A popular hit song by Gordon Lightfoot was inspired by the storm. (David Ludlum)
1987 - A cold front brought snow to the Appalachian Region and freezing temperatures to the central U.S. Up to nine inches of snow blanketed Garrett County of extreme western Maryland. Freezing temperatures were reported as far south as El Paso TX and San Angelo TX. Gale force winds lashed the Middle Atlantic Coast and the coast of southern New England. Thunderstorms brought fire quenching rains to Alabama, and produced large hail and damaging winds to eastern North Carolina. Ahead of the cold front, seven cities in Florida and Georgia reported record high temperatures for the date as readings warmed into the 80s. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Strong winds circulating around a deep low pressure system in southeastern Ontario buffeted the northeastern U.S., with the Lower Great Lakes Region hardest hit. Winds in western New York State gusted to 68 mph at Buffalo, to 69 mph at Niagra Falls, and to 78 mph at Brockport. Four persons were injured at Rome NY when a tree was blown onto their car. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Strong southwesterly winds prevailed along the eastern slopes of the Rockies in Montana and Wyoming. Winds of 80 to 90 mph prevailed across the northwest chinook zone of Montana, with gusts to 112 mph. Unseasonably warm weather accompanied the high winds. Shortly after midnight the temperature at Kalispell, MT, reached a record 59 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Windy and wet weather prevailed across Washington State. Strong southerly winds gusted to 70 mph at Rattlesnake Ridge, near Hanford. Six rivers in western Washington State rose above flood stage between the 9th and the 11th of the month, following eight days of moderate to heavy rain. Rainfall over the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains between the 3rd and the 10th ranged from 14 to 24 inches. High freezing levels also caused the early snowpack to melt, adding to the runoff in the rain-swollen rivers. Damage was heaviest in Whatcom County, where the Nooksack River caused nearly six million dollars damage, mostly to roads and bridges. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2002 - Severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a strong cold front and produced a widespread outbreak of severe weather including many tornadoes. The worst tornado damage was concentrated in Ohio, Tennessee and Alabama. A tornado rated as F-4 on the Fujita Scale struck Van Wert county in Ohio. In Tennessee, the community of Mossy Grove was nearly destroyed by a mile-wide tornado that claimed 12 lives (ENS). A major outbreak of severe weather and tornadoes occurred across the U.S. Tennessee and Ohio valley region on November 10-11, 2002, producing damage in 13 states. A total of 75 tornadoes touched down on Sunday 10th, resulting in at least 36 deaths (ENS). 
Weather History
For Monday, November 11, 2013
1911 - The central U.S. experienced perhaps its most dramatic cold wave of record. During the early morning temperatures across the Central Plains ranged from 68 degrees at Kansas City to 4 above North Platte NE. In Kansas City, the temperature warmed to a record 76 degrees by late morning before the arctic front moved in from the northwest. Skies become overcast, winds shifted to the northwest, and the mercury began to plummet. By early afternoon it was cold enough to snow, and by midnight the temperature had dipped to a record cold reading of 11 degrees above zero. Oklahoma City also established a record high of 83 degrees and record low of 17 degrees that same day. In southeastern Kansas, the temperature at Independence plunged from 83 degrees to 33 degrees in just one hour. The arctic cold front produced severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in the Mississippi Valley, a blizzard in the Ohio Va
1940 - An Armistice Day storm raged across the Great Lakes Region and the Upper Midwest. A blizzard left 49 dead in Minnesota, and gales on Lake Michigan caused ship wrecks resulting in another 59 deaths. Up to seventeen inches of snow fell in Iowa, and at Duluth MN the barometric pressure reached 28.66 inches. The blizzard claimed a total of 154 lives, and killed thousands of cattle in Iowa. Whole towns were isolated by huge snowdrifts. (David Ludlum)
1955 - An early arctic outbreak set many November temperature records across Oregon and Washington. The severe cold damaged shrubs and fruit trees. Readings plunged to near zero in western Washington, and dipped to 19 degrees below zero in the eastern part of the state. (David Ludlum)
1987 - A deepening low pressure system brought heavy snow to the east central U.S. The Veteran's Day storm produced up to 17 inches of snow in the Washington D.C. area snarling traffic and closing schools and airports. Afternoon thunderstorms produced five inches of snow in three hours. Gale force winds lashed the Middle and Northern Atlantic Coast. Norfolk VA reported their earliest measurable snow in 99 years of records. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Low pressure brought snow to parts of the Rocky Mountain Region. Totals in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado ranged up to 10 inches at Summitville. Evening thunderstorms produced large hail in central Oklahoma and north central Texas. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Veteran's Day was an unseasonably warm one across much of the nation east of the Rockies. Temperatures warmed into the 70s and 80s from the Southern and Central Plains to the southern half of the Atlantic coast. Thirty-four cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Saint Louis MO with a reading of 85 degrees. Calico AR and Gilbert AR reported record highs of 87 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 
Weather History
For Tuesday, November 12, 2013
1906 - The mercury soared to 106 degrees at Craftonville, CA, a November record for the U.S. (The Weather Channel)
1959 - Between Noon on the 11th and Noon on the 12th, a winter storm buried Helena, MT, under 21.5 inches of snow, which surpassed their previous 24 hour record by seven inches. (The Weather Channel)
1968 - A severe coastal storm produced high winds and record early snows from Georgia to Maine. Winds reached 90 mph in Massachusetts, and ten inches of snow blanketed interior Maine. (David Ludlum)
1974 - A great Alaska storm in the Bering Sea caused the worst coastal flooding of memory at Nome AK with a tide of 13.2 feet. The flooding caused 12 million dollars damage, however no lives are lost. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Heavy snow spread across much of New England. Totals in Massachusetts ranged up to 14 inches in Plymouth County. The seven inch total at the Logan Airport in Boston was their highest of record for so early in the season, and the 9.7 inch total at Providence RI was a record for November. Roads were clogged with traffic and made impassable as snowplow operators were caught unprepared for the early season snowstorm. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced severe weather in the Lower Mississippi Valley during the afternoon and early evening hours. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Bovina MS. Morning thunderstorms drenched Atlanta TX with more than four inches of rain. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Thirty-three cities reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the 70s and 80s from the Southern and Central Plains to the Southern and Middle Atlantic Coast Region. The afternoon high of 80 degrees at Scottsbluff NE was a record for November, and highs of 76 degrees at Rapid City SD and 81 degrees at Chattanooga TN were the warmest of record for so late in the season. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2003 - Thunderstorms developed in southern California and produced torrential downpours across parts of the Los Angeles area. More than 5 inches of rain fell in just 2 hours in southern Los Angeles, producing severe urban flooding. Small hail also accompanied the storms, accumulating several inches deep in some areas of the city. Nearly 115,000 electrical customers lost power as the storms affected the area (Associated Press). 
Weather History
For Wednesday, November 13, 2013
1933 - The first dust storm of the great dust bowl era of the 1930s occurred. The dust storm, which had spread from Montana to the Ohio Valley the day before, prevailed from Georgia to Maine resulting in a black rain over New York and a brown snow in Vermont. Parts of South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa reported zero visibility on the 12th. On the 13th, dust reduced the visibility to half a mile in Tennessee. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1946 - General Electric scientists produced snow in the Massachusetts Berkshires in the first modern day cloud seeding experiment. (The Weather Channel)
1953 - Strong southeasterly winds associated with a Pacific cold front reached 70 mph at Sacramento CA to equal their all-time record. The previous record had been established in a similar weather pattern on December 12th of the previous year. (The Weather Channel)
1981 - A powerful cyclone brought high winds to Washington State and Oregon. The cyclone, which formed about 1000 miles west of San Francisco, intensified rapidly as it approached the Oregon coast with the central pressure reaching 28.22 inches (956 millibars). A wind trace from the Whiskey Run Turbine Site, about 12 miles south of Coos Bay in Oregon, showed peak gusts to 97 mph fifty feet above ground level. The wind caused widespread damage in Washington and Oregon, with 12 deaths reported. As much as four feet of snow fell in the Sierra Nevada Range of northern California. (Storm Data)
1987 - A storm moving off the Pacific Ocean produced rain and gale force winds along the northern and central Pacific coast, and heavy snow in the Cascade Mountains. Cold weather prevailed in the southeastern U.S. Five cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Asheville NC with a reading of 21 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Low pressure brought rain and snow and gusty winds to the northeastern U.S. A thunderstorm drenched Agawam MA with 1.25 inches of rain in fifteen minutes. Winds gusted to 58 mph at Nantucket MA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Thirty-two cities in the central and eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date as readings warmed into the 70s as far north as Michigan and Pennsylvania. Afternoon highs in the 80s were reported from the Southern Plains to the southern Atlantic coast. Columbia SC reported a record high of 86 degrees, and the high of 71 degrees at Flint MI was their warmest of record for so late in the season. (The National Weather Summary)
Weather History
For Thursday, November 14, 2013
1964 - With the help of a fresh three inch cover of snow, the temperature at Ely, NV, dipped to 15 degrees below zero to establish an all-time record low for the month of November. That record of -15 degrees was later equalled on the 19th of November in 1985. (The Weather Channel)
1974 - A storm produced 15 inches of snow at the Buffalo, NY, airport, and 30 inches on the south shore of Lake Erie. (David Ludlum)
1986 - An early season cold wave set more than 200 records from the northwestern U.S. to the east coast over a seven day period. For some places it proved to be the coldest weather of the winter season. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1987 - The first major snowstorm of the season hit the Southern and Central Rockies, producing 12 inches at the Brian Head ski resort in Utah overnight. Strong and gusty winds associated with the storm reached 52 mph at Ruidoso NM. In the eastern U.S., the temperature at Washington D.C. soared to 68 degrees, just three days after being buried under more than a foot of snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - A massive storm produced snow and gusty winds in the western U.S., with heavy snow in some of the higher elevations. Winds gusted to 66 mph at Show Low AZ, and Donner Summit, located in the Sierra Nevada Range of California, was buried under 23 inches of snow. Heavy rain soaked parts of California, with 3.19 inches reported at Blue Canyon. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Unseasonably warm weather prevailed east of the Rockies. Temperatures reached 70 degrees as far north as New England, and readings in the 80s were reported across the southeast quarter of the nation. Nineteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date. For the second time in the month Dallas/Fort Worth TX equalled their record for November with an afternoon high of 89 degrees. The high of 91 degrees at Waco TX was their warmest of record for so late in the season. Heavy snow blanketed parts of Wyoming overnight, with a foot of snow reported at Cody, and ten inches at Yellowstone Park. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
Weather History
For Friday, November 15, 2013
1900 - A record lake-effect snowstorm at Watertown, NY, produced 45 inches in 24 hours. The storm total was 49 inches. (14th-15th) (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1967 - A surprise snow and ice coating paralyzed Boston during the evening rush hour. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Thunderstorms spawned twenty-two tornadoes in eastern Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. A tornado moving out of northeastern Texas killed one person and injured ninety-six others around Shreveport LA causing more than five million dollars damage. Tornadoes in Texas claimed ten lives, and injured 191 persons. A tornado caused more than nineteen million dollars damage around Palestine TX. Severe thunderstorms spawned eighteen tornadoes in Mississippi and seven in Georgia the next day, and thunderstorms in southeastern Texas produced wind gusts to 102 mph at Galveston, and wind gusts to 110 mph at Bay City, killing one person. There were a total of forty-nine tornadoes in the south central U.S. in two days. The tornadoes claimed eleven lives, injured 303 persons, and caused more than seventy million dollars damage. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Oklahoma and northeastern Texas to northern Indiana and southern Wisconsin from mid morning through the pre-dawn hours of the following day. Thunderstorms spawned forty-four tornadoes, including thirteen in Missouri, and there were more than two hundred reports of large hail or damaging winds. A tornado in central Arkansas hit Scott and Lonoke killing five people, injuring sixty others, and causing fifteen million dollars damage. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - A tornado hit Southside, AR, killing one person, injuring ten others, and causing more than two million dollars damage, and a tornado near Clarksville AR injured nine persons and caused more than two million dollars damage. A tornado moving through the southwest part of Topeka KS injured twenty-two persons and caused nearly four million dollars damage. A tornado near Jane MO killed one person and injured twelve others, and a tornado moving across the southwest part of O'Fallon MO injured ten persons. Severe thunderstorms also produced hail three and a half inches in diameter east of Denison TX, and wind gusts to 85 mph at Kirksville MO. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Thunderstorms developing along a powerful cold front began to produce severe weather in the Middle Mississippi Valley before sunrise, and by early the next morning thunderstorms had spawned seventeen tornadoes east of the Mississippi River, with a total of 350 reports of severe weather. There were one hundred reports of damaging winds in Georgia, and five tornadoes, and there were another four tornadoes in Alabama. Hardest hit was Huntsville AL where a violent tornado killed 21 persons, injured 463 others, and caused one hundred million dollars damage. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Thunderstorms in Kentucky produced hail three inches in diameter in Grayson County, and wind gusts to 110 mph at Flaherty. Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the eastern U.S. through the morning and afternoon hours. Severe thunderstorms spawned 23 tornadoes, and there were 164 reports of damaging winds. There were fourteen tornadoes in New Jersey, central and eastern New York, and eastern Pennsylvania, and 122 reports of damaging winds. A tornado at Coldenham NY killed nine school children and injured eighteen others, and thunderstorm winds gusted to 100 mph at Malvern PA. Thunderstorms spawned a total of thirty-nine tornadoes east of Great Plains in two days, and there 499 reports of large hail and damaging winds. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2005 - Severe thunderstorms produced over 30 tornadoes in 6 states, resulting in one fatality and at least 35 injuries (Associated Press). Some of the worst damage occurred in Henry county, Tennessee, where numerous homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed.
2006 - Strong winds cause severe damage at a skating rink in Montgomery, Alabama where more than 30 preschoolers were playing. Two children suffered injuries but there were no fatalities. 
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Weather History
For Saturday, November 16, 2013
1958 - More than six inches of snow fell at Tucson, AZ. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1959 - The most severe November cold wave in U.S. history was in progress. A weather observing station located 14 miles northeast of Lincoln MT reported a reading of 53 degrees below zero, which established an all-time record low temperature for the nation for the month of November. Their high that day was one degree above zero. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - High winds and heavy snow created blizzard conditions across parts of eastern Colorado. Wind gusts reached 68 mph at Pueblo, and snowfall totals ranged up to 37 inches at Echo Lake. In Wyoming, the temperature dipped to 14 degrees below zero at Laramie. Strong thunderstorms in Louisiana drenched Alexandria with 16.65 inches of rain in thirty hours, with an unofficial total of 21.21 inches north of Olla. Flash flooding in Louisiana caused five to six million dollars damage. (15th-16th) (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - A powerful low pressure system in the north central U.S. produced high winds across the Great Lakes Region, with wind gusts to 60 mph reported at Chicago IL. Heavy snow blanketed much of Minnesota, with eleven inches reported at International Falls. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Snow and gusty winds invaded the north central U.S. Winds gusting to 40 mph produced wind chill readings as cold as 25 degrees below zero, and blizzard conditions were reported in Nebraska during the late morning hours. High winds around a powerful low pressure system produced squalls in the Great Lakes Region. Winds gusted to 63 mph at Whitefish Point MI, and snowfall totals in Michigan ranged up to 19 inches at Hart, north of Muskegon. (15th-16th) (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2006 - An F-3 tornado strikes Riegelwood, NC causing eight deaths and twenty injuries 
Weather History
For Sunday, November 17, 2013
1869 - Southwest winds of hurricane force swept the Berkshire and Green Mountains of New England causing extensive forest and structural damage. (David Ludlum)
1927 - A tornado cut a seventeen mile path across Alexandria and southeastern Washington, DC, injuring 31 persons. The tornado struck the Naval Air Station where a wind gust of 93 mph was recorded. A waterspout was seen over the Potomac River ninety minutes later. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1953 - The temperature at Minneapolis, MN, reached 71 degrees, their warmest reading of record for so late in the autumn. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A storm in the Rockies produced 21 inches of snow at the Monarch ski resort in Colorado, with 14 inches reported at Steamboat Springs CO. Early morning thunderstorms in the southeastern U.S. drenched Mary Esther FL with 4.43 inches of rain. Gale force winds over the Great Lakes Region gusted to 49 mph at Johnstown PA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Another in a series of storms brought heavy snow to the mountains of the western U.S. Totals ranged up to 17 inches at Bob Scott Summit in Nevada. Winds around Reno NV gusted to 80 mph. The Alta and Sundance ski resorts in Utah received 14 inches of snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Freezing temperatures overspread the southeastern U.S. in the wake of the severe weather outbreak of the previous two days. Eight cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Gilbert AR with a reading of 8 degrees. A fast moving storm blanketed the Great Lakes Region and Upper Ohio Valley with snow during the night. Totals ranged up to 12 inches at Pellston MI and Little Valley NY. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
 Weather History
For Monday, November 18, 2013
1873 - A severe storm raged from Georgia to Nova Scotia causing great losses to fishing fleets along the coast. In Maine, the barometric pressure reached 28.49 inches at Portland. (David Ludlum)
1955 - An early season cold snap finally came to an end. Helena, MT, experienced 138 consecutive hours of subzero temperatures, including a reading of 29 below zero, which surpassed by seven degrees their previous record for the month of November. Missoula MT broke their November record by 12 degrees with a reading of 23 below zero, and Salt Lake City UT smashed their previous November record of zero with a reading of 14 below. Heavy snow in the Great Basin closed Donner Pass CA, and total crop damage from the cold wave amounted to eleven million dollars. (David Ludlum)
1957 - A tornado, 100 yards in width, travelled a nearly straight as an arrow 27-mile path from near Rosa AL to near Albertville AL, killing three persons. A home in the Susan Moore community in Blount County was picked up and dropped 500 feet away killing one person. (The Weather Channel)
1986 - The first of two successive snowstorms struck the northeastern U.S. The storm produced up to 20 inches of snow in southern New Hampshire. Two days later a second storm produced up to 30 inches of snow in northern Maine. (Storm Data)
1987 - It was a windy day across parts of the nation. Gale force winds whipped the Great Lakes Region. Winds gusting to 80 mph in western New York State damaged buildings and flipped over flatbed trailers at Churchville. In Montana, high winds in the Upper Yellowstone Valley gusted to 64 mph at Livingston. Strong Santa Ana winds buffeted the mountains and valleys of southern California. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms developing along a warm front drenched Little Rock AR with 7.01 inches of rain, smashing their previous record for the date of 1.91 inches. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - A second surge of arctic air brought record cold to parts of the north central U.S. Eleven cities in the Upper Midwest reported record low temperatures for the date, including Rochester MN with a reading of 4 degrees below zero. Strong winds ushering the arctic air into the north central U.S. produced squalls in the Lower Great Lakes Region. Snowfall totals in northern Ohio ranged up to twenty inches in Ashatabula County and Geauga County. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Tuesday, November 19, 2013
1921 - The Columbia Gorge ice storm finally came to an end. In Oregon, 54 inches of snow, sleet and glaze blocked the Columbia River Highway at the Dalles. Apart from traffic on the river itself, all transportation between Walla Walla WA and Portland OR came to a halt. Nine trains were stopped as railroads were blocked for several days. (David Ludlum)
1957 - Nineteen inches of snow covered the ground at Cresco, IA, a record November snow depth for the state. (The Weather Channel)
1981 - An unusually early snowstorm struck the Twin Cities of Minnesota, with as much as a foot of snow reported. The weight of the heavy snow caused the newly inflated fabric dome of the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis to collapse and rip. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A sharp cold front pushed across the Great Lakes Region and the Mississippi Valley. Northwest winds gusting to 50 mph in Iowa caused some property damage around Ottumwa, and wind chill readings reached 16 degrees below zero at Hibbing MN. Showers and thunder- storms over Florida produced 5.80 inches of rain in six hours at Cocoa Beach. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Strong thunderstorms developed during the mid morning hours and produced severe weather across eastern Texas and the Lower Mississippi Valley into the wee hours of the night. Thunderstorms spawned twenty-one tornadoes, including thirteen in Mississippi. One tornado killed two persons and injured eleven others at Nettleton MS, and another tornado injured eight persons at Tuscaloosa AL. Thunderstorms produced baseball size hail in east Texas and northern Louisiana, and Summit MS was deluged with six inches of rain in four hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Gale force winds continued to produce squalls in the Lower Great Lakes Region early in the day. Snowfall totals in western New York State reached 24 inches in southern Lewis County, with 21 inches reported at Highmarket. Unseasonably warm weather prevailed across the Northern and Central Plains Region. Eight cities reported record high temperatures for the date, including Denver CO with a reading of 79 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
2003 - Flooding affected the central Appalachians and Eastern Seaboard, with some isolated 8-inch rainfall totals across mountainous areas. There were 11 deaths caused by flooding in the region (Associated Press). 
Weather History
For Wednesday, November 20, 2013
1869 - A second great windstorm in three days struck Vermont and New York blowing railroad trains off their tracks. (David Ludlum)
1900 - An unusual tornado outbreak in the Lower Mississippi Valley resulted in 73 deaths and extensive damage across Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. (David Ludlum)
1914 - The high temperature of 28 degrees at Atlanta, GA, was their earliest daily high below the freezing mark. (The Weather Channel)
1979 - A blizzard struck Cheyenne, WY, producing a record 19.8 inches of snow in 24 hours, and a record total of 25.6 inches in forty hours. Strong winds created huge drifts stopping all transportation. (19th-21st) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Blustery northwest winds created snow squalls in the Great Lakes Region and the Upper Ohio Valley. Snowfall totals in Upper Michigan ranged up to 18 inches at Paradise. Lake City MI received 9.5 inches of snow in four and a half hours. Up to a foot of snow blanketed Oswego County in western New York State. Strong winds produced wind chill readings as cold as 22 degrees below zero at Duluth MN. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a fast moving cold front produced severe weather in the Upper Ohio Valley and the Middle Atlantic Coast Region during the afternoon and early evening. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 69 mph at Kennedy Airport in New York City, and winds along the cold front itself gusted to 56 mph at Cincinnati OH. The same storm produced snow in Kansas, Missouri and Illinois, with eight inches reported at Rolla MO. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Low pressure brought thunderstorms and high winds to the northeastern U.S. There were 193 reports of damaging winds with thunderstorms in New York State, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Tornadoes touched down near Seaside Park NJ and McAlevys Port PA. Winds with thunderstorms gusted to 92 mph at Poughkeepsie NY, and reached 94 mph at Newburgh NY. High winds in the Washington D.C. area, gusting to 73 mph, resulted in one death. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 
Weather History
For Thursday, November 21, 2013
1798 - A four day storm was in progress in the northeastern U.S. The storm dropped a foot of snow on New York City and New Haven, and as much as three feet in Maine and New Hampshire. The snowstorm ushered in a long and severe winter, in some places the ground remained covered with snow until the following May. (David Ludlum)
1967 - Excessive rains in southern California caused the most severe flooding and the most damaging mmud slidesin 33 years. Downtown Los Angeles received eight inches of rain, and 14 inches fell in the mountains. (David Ludlum)
1985 - Hurricane Kate made landfall during the evening hours near Mexico Beach, FL. Wind gusts to 100 mph were reported at Cape San Blas FL. It was the latest known hurricane to hit the U.S. so far north. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Squalls in the Lower Great Lakes Region and the Upper Ohio Valley produced 14 inches of snow at Snowshoe WV, and nearly eight inches at Syracuse NY. Eleven cities in the eastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date. Record lows included 21 degrees at Pinson AL, 9 degrees at Syracuse NY, and 8 degrees at Binghamton NY. Gale force winds lash the Middle and Northern Atlantic Coast, and the strong northwesterly winds produced wind chill readings as cold as 30 degrees below zero. Winds gusting to 60 mph at Trumansburg NY toppled a chimney onto a nearby truck. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - High winds accompanied rain and snow in the northeastern U.S. Caribou ME received eight inches of snow in six hours, and Fort Kent ME was blanketed with a total of fourteen inches of snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - The storm which produced thunderstorms and high winds in the northeastern U.S. the previous day, produced snow and high winds in New England, with blizzard conditions reported in Maine. Winds gusted to 55 mph at Boston MA, and reached 58 mph at Augusta ME, and hurricane force winds were reported off the coast of Maine. Snowfall totals ranged up to 18 inches at Vanceboro ME, with 17 inches at South Lincoln VT. There were thirty-five sstormrelated injuries in Maine. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
Weather History
For Friday, November 22, 2013
1641 - An observer at Boston, MA, recorded a great tempest of wind and rain from the southeast all night, as fierce as a hurricane, and thereupon followed the highest tide which we have seen since our arrival here . (David Ludlum)
1957 - Extremely destructive Santa Ana winds blew from Oxnard to San Diego and inland parts of southern California. The high winds produced a 28,000 acre brush fire on a 40-mile front west of Crystal Lake. People were ordered off streets in some areas due to flying debris. (21st-22nd) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Eight cities in the eastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date. Elkins, WV, reported a low of 5 degrees above zero. Gale force winds continued along the Northern Atlantic Coast. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Wet and windy weather prevailed across the western U.S., with heavy snow in some of the higher elevations. Winds gusted to 62 mph at Vedauwoo WY, and reached 75 mph at Tillamook OR. Shelter Cove CA was drenched with 4.37 inches of rain in 24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Strong northerly winds produced squalls along the shore of Lake Michigan, with heavy snow in extreme southeastern Wisconsin. Milwaukee WI received nine inches of snow, and in Racine County there were more than one hundred automobile accidents. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
Weather History
For Saturday, November 23, 2013
1909 - Rattlesnake Creek was deluged with 7.17 inches of rain in 24 hours to establish a record for the state of Idaho. (The Weather Channel)
1943 - Northern New Hampshire was in the grips of a record snowstorm which left a total of 55 inches at Berlin, and 56 inches at Randolph. The 56 inch total at Randolph established a 24 hour snowfall record for the state. In Maine, Middle Dam received a record 35 inches of snow in 24 hours. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Rain and gale force winds prevailed along the Northern Pacific coast. Quillayute, WA, received 1.57 inches of rain in 24 hours, including nine tenths of an inch in six hours. Heavy snow fell over northern Oregon and the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Temperatures began to moderate in the eastern U.S. following a bitterly cold weekend. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Low pressure crossing the Great Basin brought wintry weather to parts of the western U.S. Up to a foot of snow blanketed Yellowstone Park, and winds gusted to 70 mph at casper WY, and reached 95 mph near Reno NV. Up to seven inches of rain was reported in the Grass Valley and Nevada City area of California. Paradise CA was soaked with 5.37 inches of rain in 24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Low pressure tracking across the Carolinas brought heavy rain to parts of the Southern Atlantic Coast Region for Thanksgiving Day, and blanketed the Middle Atlantic Coast States and southern New England with heavy snow. The storm produced up to nine inches of snow over Long Island NY, and up to 14 inches over Cape Cod MA, at Yarmouth. Totals of 4.7 inches at New York City and 6.0 inches at Newark NJ were records for Thanksgiving Day, the 8.0 inch total at Providence RI was a record for any given day in November, and the 6.5 inch total at Strasburg CT was a record for the month of November as a whole. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2004 - An outbreak of severe thunderstorms produced reports of 54 tornadoes across portions of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama. In Texas's Hardin county, one person was killed with three injured when a tornado struck during the afternoon (Associated Press). 
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Weather History
For Sunday, November 24, 2013
1812 - Southwesterly winds of hurricane force sank ships and unroofed buildings at Philadelphia and New York City. (David Ludlum)
1863 - The battle above the clouds was fought on Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga. Pre-frontal clouds obscured the upper battle- field aiding a Union victory. (David Ludlum)
1950 - The temperature at Chicago, IL, dipped to 2 below zero to equal their record for the month established on the 29th in 1872. On the first of the month that year Chicago established a record high for November with a reading of 81 degrees. (The Weather Channel)
1982 - Hurricane Iwa lashed the Hawaiian Islands of Niihau, Kauai, and Oahu with high winds and surf. Winds gusting to 120 mph caused extensive shoreline damage. Damage totalled 150 million dollars on Kauai, and fifty million dollars on Oahu. The peak storm surge on the south shore was six to eight feet. It marked the first time in 25 years that Hawaii had been affected by a hurricane. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rain in southern Missouri, southeast Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. Flooding was reported in Greene County of southwestern Missouri. Springfield MO was drenched with more than six inches of rain. Thunderstorms over southern Texas produced more than eight inches of rain in Caldwell County and Hayes County, and thunderstorms over south central Oklahoma produced one inch hail at Temple twice within an hour. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Low pressure brought heavy snow and high winds to the Northern and Central Rockies. Snowfall totals in Colorado ranged up to 40 inches at Wolf Creek Pass, with 27 inches falling in 24 hours. Telluride CO received 32 inches of snow, and winds atop Mines Peak gusted to 95 mph. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
Weather History
For Monday, November 25, 2013
1950 - A great storm hit the Northern and Central Appalachians with snow and high winds. Winds reached hurricane force along eastern slopes of the Appalachians, with gusts to 100 mph at Hartford CT, 110 mph at Concord NH, and 160 mph at Mount Washington NH. Heavy rain also hit the eastern slopes, with eight inches reported at Slide Mountain NY. The western slopes were buried under heavy snow. The storm produced record snowfall totals of 27.7 inches at Pittsburgh PA, and 36.3 inches at Steubenville OH. The snow, and record cold temperatures, resulted in 160 deaths. (25th-26th) (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1970 - The temperature at Tallahassee, FL, dipped to 13 degrees, following a high of 40 degrees the previous day. The mercury then reached 67 degrees on the 26th, and highs were in the 70s the rest of the month. (The Weather Channel)
1983 - The Great Thanksgiving Weekend Blizzard hit Denver, CO. The storm produced 21.5 inches of snow in 37 hours, closing Stapleton Airport for 24 hours. The snow and wind closed interstate highways around Denver. Visibility at Limon CO was down to zero for 24 hours. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - An early morning thunderstorm in southeastern Texas produced high winds which rolled a mobile home east of Bay City killing two of the four occupants. Thunderstorms produced locally heavy rains in central and eastern Texas, with nine inches reported at Huntsville, and 8.5 inches at Wimberly. Snow fell across northern and central Lower Michigan, with totals ranging up to nine inches at Cadillac. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma and northwest Texas during the day and into the night. Thunderstorms in Texas produced softball size hail at Alba, and wind gusts to 80 mph at Krum. Hail and high winds caused nearly five million dollars damage at Kaufman TX, and strong downburst winds derailed twenty-eight freight cars at Fruitvale TX. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
Weather History
For Tuesday, November 26, 2013
1888 - A late season hurricane brushed the East Coast with heavy rain and gale force winds. The hurricane passed inside Nantucket and over Cape Cod, then crossed Nova Scotia. (David Ludlum)
1896 - Snow and high winds hit the Northern Plains and the Upper Mississippi Valley, with a Thanksgiving Day blizzard across North Dakota. The storm was followed by a severe cold wave in the Upper Midwest. The temperature at Pokegama Dam MI plunged to 45 degrees below zero. (David Ludlum)
1987 - A Thanksgiving Day storm in the northeastern U.S. produced heavy snow in northern New England and upstate New York. Snowfall totals in Maine ranged up to twenty inches at Flagstaff Lake. Totals in New Hampshire ranged up to 18 inches at Errol. Gales lashed the coast of Maine and New Hampshire. A second storm, over the Southern and Central Rockies, produced nine inches of snow at Kanosh UT, and 13 inches at Divide CO, with five inches reported at Denver CO. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather over the Central Gulf Coast States during the late morning and afternoon hours. Five tornadoes were reported in Mississippi, with the tornadoes causing a million dollars damage at Ruleville, and in Warren County. In Utah, the town of Alta was blanketed with 15 inches of snow overnight, and during the day was buried under another 16.5 inches of snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - A massive storm over the western U.S. produced heavy snow in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. The storm produced more than two feet of snow in the higher elevations of northern and central Utah, bringing more than sixty inches of snow to the Alta Ski Resort in the Wasatch Mountains. Winds in Utah gusted to 60 mph at Bullfrog. The storm brought much needed snow to the ski resorts of Colorado, with 19 inches reported at Beaver Creek. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 
 Weather History
For Wednesday, November 27, 2013
1883 - Fire engines were called out in New York City and New Haven, CT, as a result of the afterglow of the sunset due to vivid red ash from the Krakatoa Volcano explosion in August. (The Weather Channel)
1898 - The Portland storm raged across New England producing gale force winds along the coast and heavy snow inland. A foot of snow blanketed Boston MA, and 27 inches fell at New London CT. Winds at Boston gusted to 72 mph, and wind gusts to 98 mph were estimated at Block Island RI. A passenger ship, the S. S. Portland, sank off Cape Cod with the loss of all 191 persons aboard, and Boston Harbor was filled with wrecked ships. The storm wrecked 56 vessels resulting in a total of 456 casualties. (26th- 28th) (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Wet weather prevailed across much of the nation east of the Rockies. Sunny and cool weather prevailed in the western U.S. Snow fell in the central U.S., with totals in Kansas ranging up to six inches at Burr Oak. Much of the area from central Oklahoma to southwestern Minnesota experienced its first snow of the winter season. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Snow and high winds created blizzard conditions in Minnesota. Winds gusted to 63 mph at Windom, and snowfall totals ranged up to 14 inches at Aitkin. Snow drifts seven feet high closed many roads. Fargo ND reported a wind chill reading of 34 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - A storm system crossing the north central U.S. spread snow across the Dakotas and Minnesota. Heavy snow fell in western South Dakota, with 18 inches reported at Galena. Strong winds associated with the storm gusted to 50 mph in the Great Lakes Region and the Great Plains, with blowing dust reported in Kansas. Thunderstorms associated with the same storm system produced damaging winds in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana during the evening, with gusts to 73 mph reported east of Ypsilante MI. Unseasonably warm weather prevailed ahead of the cold front. Twenty-three cities from the Gulf coast to the Ohio Valley and the Mid Mississippi Valley reported record high temperatures for the date, including Saint Louis MO with a reading of 76 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2005 - A major winter storm affected parts of Nebraska and the Dakotas during the 27th-28th. Snowfall accumulations of 16-20 inches were observed in parts of eastern South Dakota, while wind gusts exceeding 60 mph also accompanied the snow, creating blizzard conditions. Thousands of power outages were caused by the combination of strong winds and heavy snow. In South Dakota, about 8,000 utility poles and 10,000 miles of transmission line were brought down by the storm (Associated Press). 
Weather History
For Thursday, November 28, 2013
1921 - New England was in the midst of a four day icestorm, their worst of record. Ice was more than three inches thick in many places following the storm, and property damage was in the millions of dollars. Northern New England received heavy snow with more than two feet reported in some areas. Overnight freezing rains continued through the day at Worcester MA while the wind increased to a gale. Streets become impassable even on foot, and whole towns were plunged into darkness without communication. The storm caused 20 million dollars damage to power lines, telephone lines and trees. (David Ludlum)
1960 - A severe storm produced waves 20 to 40 feet high on Lake Superior. Duluth, MN, was buried under a foot of snow, and clocked wind gusts to 73 mph. The northern shore of Lake Superior was flooded, and property along the shore was battered. Thousands of cords of pulpwood were washed into Lake Superior, and up to three feet of water flooded the main street of Grand Marais. Thunder accompanied the nor'easter . (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Low pressure in the Middle Mississippi Valley produced a mixture of snow and sleet and freezing rain from the Central Plains to the Upper Mississippi Valley. Snowfall totals in Iowa ranged up to ten inches at Red Oak. Totals in Nebraska ranged up to 11 inches at Shickley. Freezing rain made roads treacherous in the Twin Cities area of southeastern Minnesota. Bitter cold arctic air invaded the Northern High Plains Region. Laramie WY was the cold spot in the nation with a morning low of 18 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms spawned five tornadoes in North Carolina during the early morning hours. A powerful tornado ripped through one of the most densely populated areas of Raleigh destroying hundreds of homes and damaging thousands more. The tornado killed four persons along its 83 mile track, and injured 154 others. Total damage was estimated at more than 77 million dollars. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Strong Santa Ana winds prevailed across southern California. Winds gusted to 70 mph at the Rialto Airport, and several tractor- trailer trucks were overturned east of Los Angeles. High winds also buffeted the northeastern U.S., ushering arctic air into the region. Winds gusted to 60 mph at Montpelier VT, and reached 66 mph at Saint Albans VT. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
Weather History
For Friday, November 29, 2013
1896 - The mercury plunged to 51 degrees below zero at Havre, MT. It marked the culmination of a two week long cold wave caused by a stagnate high pressure area similar to those over Siberia during the winter. During the month of November temperatures across Montana and the Dakotas averaged 15 to 25 degrees below normal. (David Ludlum)
1969 - Dense fog along the Jersey Turnpike resulted in a chain reaction of vehicle collisions during the morning rush hour. A propane truck jacknifed and was struck by a trailor truck, and other vehicles piled into the fiery mass. (David Ludlum)
1975 - Red River was buried under 34 inches of snow in 24 hours, establishing a record for the state of New Mexico. (The Weather Channel)
1985 - The temperature at Bismarck, ND, plunged to 30 degrees below zero to establish their record low for the month of November. The high that day was 4 degrees below zero. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Snow blanketed the Upper Mississippi Valley, with heavy snow reported near Lake Superior. Up to ten inches of snow was reported in Douglas County and Bayfield County of Wisconsin. Brule WI received nine inches of snow. Heavy rain soaked the Middle Atlantic Coast States, while gale force winds lashed the coastline. Flooding was reported in Maryland and Virginia. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Nine inches of snow at Alta UT brought their total for the month to 164 inches, surpassing their previous November record of 144 inches. Snowbird UT, also in the Little Cottonwood Valley, surpassed their November record of 118 inches of snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Strong Santa Ana winds diminished over southern California, but record cold was reported in some of the California valleys, with readings of 27 degrees at Redding and 31 degrees at Bakersfield. Gale force winds, gusting to 44 mph at Milwuakee WI, produced snow squalls in the Great Lakes Region. Sault Ste Marie MI finished the month of November with a record 46.8 inches of snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
Weather History
For Saturday, November 30, 2013
1875 - A severe early season cold wave set November records in the northeastern U.S. The temperature dipped to 5 above zero at New York City, 2 below at Boston MA, and 13 below at Eastport ME. (David Ludlum)
1957 - Lee slope winds enhanced by Hurricane Nina gusted to 82 mph at Honolulu, Hawaii, a record wind gust for that location. Wainiha, on the island of Kauai, was deluged with 20.42 inches of rain, and 35 foot waves pounded some Kauai beaches, even though the eye of the hurricane was never within 120 miles of the islands. (30th-1st) (The Weather Channel)
1967 - A record November snowstorm struck the Washington D.C. area. It produced up to a foot of snow in a 12 hour period. (David Ludlum)
1976 - MacLeod Harbor, AK, reported a precipitation total for November of 70.99 inches, which established a state record for any month of the year. (The National Weather Summary)
1987 - Showers produced heavy rain in the northeastern U.S. Up to three inches of rain drenched the Brandywine Creek Basin of Pennsylvania, and rainfall totals in Vermont ranged up to two inches at Dorsett. Snow fell heavily across Upper Michigan as gale force winds prevailed over Lake Superior. A storm moving into the northwestern U.S. produced gale force winds along the northern and central Pacific coast. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Snow in the Upper Great Lakes Region pushed the precipitation total for the month at Marquette, MI, past their previous November record of 7.67 inches. Santa Anna winds in southern California gusted to 75 mph at Laguna Peak. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Squalls produced heavy snow in the Lower Great Lakes Region, with 15 inches reported at Chaffee, NY, and at Barnes Corners NY. Tropical Storm Karen drenched parts of Cuba with heavy rain. Punta Del Este reported fourteen inches of rain in 24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
See also http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_history/
See also http://climate.umn.edu/pdf/day_in_weather_history/may_wx_history.pdf 
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/?n=thisdayinhistory
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/history/request_history.php
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/iwx/program_areas/wxhisttdy/calendar.php