The station recorded summer like temperatures for the first 12 days permitting wonderful conditions to finish the remaining soybean and grain corn harvest.
There were wild temperature swings ranging from a high of 25 degrees on November 10 to a low of minus 8 on the nineteenth. The final result was the fourth warmest in the last 54 years with 5.1 degrees compared to MINUS 1.5 last year when many of the farmers picked the corn out of the snow, the ten-year normal of 2.9 and the fifty-year average of 2.3. Precipitation was very scarce until the twenty second producing a monthly total of 60 mms. or 2.4 inches of rain and melted snow which is below normal.
Upon reviewing the statistics for the first eleven months of 2020 and adding normal temperature and precipitation estimate for December, it appears the totals for Ormstown COULD BE the fifth warmest in the last 54 years and the tenth driest in the last 34 years. However, with the wild swings exhibited so far in 2020, this forecast could easily change.
Peter Finlayson
