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It) .first day of September large amount at any one We always hope that November is not really a winter month but this year the hopes were somewhat dashed. Tem eratures were December is coldest “in years ecord low - tern Rain-fellfin 15 days, no' tember weather time, but 2 1/4 inches which --»is reasonable forrour area. We had only 11 completely sunny days. , First frost occurred on the l’2th and a heavy frost of -4.5 the morning of the 29th. We Temperatures below normal below normal, especially the minimums. Normal November would be about -3C, 26F, but this year it was â€"5C, 23F degrees. The maximum was 2.7C and the mean for the month was - l, or 30 degrees. Snow fell ion 9 days amounting to 26.6 cm which is just over 10 inches, compared with 24 inches in 197]. Our total precipitation was 34.4 mm, 1.3 inches. were frost free from June 16th to Sept 12. The average Maximum temperature was 19C, 67F, and the average minimum was 6.5C giving us a mean of 12.5C, 55F degrees. We had a warmer September in 1971 when the mean was 65 degrees, and we had more rain in 1977 with 3.6 inches. Pastures continued to be very good, the corn crop ex» cellent, and grain harvesting completed apart from a few fields of buckwheat. well below an average 2.2 inches. We had only 3 nights above freezing so the ground was well frozen by the end of the month, even small lakes had a coating of ice. The lowest reading was 15C, 5F, the morning of the 27th and the warmest day was the 4th when we reached 11C, 54F It was a dull November with only 6 full sunny days. Precipitation was normal with 3 l/4inches of which 27 inches were snow and almost ll2 inch of freezing rain. The total precipitation of 29 inches for the year was below- average though we had 4.9 inches in June. The warmest days were June 25th, August 7th and 25th at 31C. and August was the warmest month with a mean of F. We had 92 frost free ays, June 12th to Sept 12th. which is at least 8 days less than average. The mean temperature for 1980 was 40.6F close to the 10 year average of 40.9 degrees-r