Weekly temperatures averaged up to 8 degrees F above normal from the northern Plains into the Northeast, aiding final summer crop harvesting operations. Similarly, temperatures ranged from 2 to 10 degrees F above normal in the Southwest, promoting cotton harvesting and winter wheat planting. Beneficial showers diminished across the Northwest, but cool weather slowed winter wheat development in Washington and northern Oregon.
Additional moisture is needed across the Snake River Plain.
A brief, midweek cool snap interrupted an otherwise very warm pattern across the Central and Western States. An additional 60 daily records and more than a dozen monthly record highs were established across the northern Plains and the West on Sunday, November 7. As the week began, an energetic storm system lifted northeastward from the western Gulf Coast region. Locally heavy rain arrived in the Southeast at the end of October, then spread northeastward thereafter, providing welcomed moisture to the middle Ohio Valley and the Appalachians. By week's end, however, much warmer air overspread the region, aiding the development of pastures and fall-sown crops after the widespread frosts and freezes.