Coldest since 2012, driest since 2016 - MSLP was -1.1 Mb below average, rainfall 92.3% of the average for 2007-18 and the temp' was 1.49°c below average (2009-18).
Rainfall totalled 106.7 mm (CR school 115.0 mm) - Mean Min' of 4.78°c - Mean Max' 11.60°c - with a highest maximum of 14.1°c (4th) and a lowest minimum of -3.2°c (28th).
There were: six air frosts and ten ground frosts, fog on one day (28th) and with 22.3 mm the 5th was the wettest day.
Summary - is now fully updated with October's weather report.
A summary and detail of the weather for 2018 can be read here REVIEW OF 2018 and other summaries/articles are also available such as this: But it's meant to be Summer (Summer 2017)
Local Historical Weather
Morland - rainfall in November 1919 was 75.7 mm and between 1902-44 the average for the month was 87.0 mm
Orton - between 1967-2018 the average rainfall for November is 180.3 mm - the driest being 51.9 mm (2004) and the wettest 504.4 mm (2009)
Appleby - average rainfall for November for the period 1856-2018 is 86.4 mm - the driest decade was the 1870's (71.1 mm), the wettest, 2000's (107.3 mm)
Maulds Meaburn - November, the then record breaking rainfall of 2009, the cold and snowy end to the month in 2010, the mildness of 2011 and 2015 can certainly see the autumn end in various ways, but its driest month (64.3 mm) is the 'wettest driest' of the twelve. - The mean temperature has ranged from 3.64°c (2016) to 8.12°c (2011). Averages 133.7 mm of rain - Air Frost on 7.4 days - Ground Frost on 14.2 days - Snowfall on 1.5 days - Snow Lying on 0.5 days - an inch of rain on 0.7 days
Mr. W. Hoggarth of Shap (Copy Hill) did not make any comments in the 'British Rainfall Guides' regarding the November of 1880, the following is from Mardale:-
'Very wet weather.' but he did make the following comments about particular days in the month:
9th 'Heavy gale.' 15th 'Heavy fall of snow at night.' 24+25th 'Very great floods.'
'HISTORICAL EVENTS' (above) is a start in recording historical weather in our immediate locality - now includes the flood report: Summary and Analysis
Weather Lore - November
"A warm November is the sign of a bad winter.""Wind north-west at Martinmas, severe winter to come."
"As high as the weeds grow, so will the banks of snow."
Sunrise: 7:46 Sunset: 16:05
Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
LINKS TO OTHER WEATHER WEBSITES
Great Asby, Nr Appleby Local site, making for interesting comparisons with Maulds Meaburn.
Brampton Weather NE Cumbria An authoritative site that includes the Cumbrian Weather report.
Huncoat Weather Includes an excellent study on the history of British rainfall.
Cumbrian Weather Forum For all the latest discussion on the Cumbrian Weather.
Visit Cumbria Take a look at Maulds Meaburn and the surrounding area.
A summary of this stations data is sent to the Climatological Observers Link and to the Cumbria Weather Report and forms part of their monthly reports.
Forecast: Increasing clouds with little temperature change. Precipitation possible within 24 to 48 hours
Four Day Weather Forecast and current Synoptic and Rainfall charts
