Phoenix, Tucson set records for warmest Novembers ever
Nov 30, 2017, 3:47 PM | Updated: 8:53 pm
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PHOENIX — Both Phoenix and Tucson set marks Thursday for the warmest Novembers on record, the National Weather Service said.
The average temperature in Phoenix this month was 71.2 degrees, breaking the old record of 70 degrees.
“We’ve just never had any really cool periods,” meteorologist Chris Kuhlman said. “Typically, during November, we at least have one or two weather systems that come in and cool us down and that really hasn’t happened.”
In Tucson, the average was 69 degrees. That topped the decade-old record of 65.7 degrees.
“We just had an astonishingly warm (November), especially in the daytime highs, but even the nighttime lows have been on the mild side as well,” meteorologist Glenn Lader said.
Both records were caused by a “very unusually strong area of high pressure that has hung around our area in the desert southwest and to the eastern Pacific for much of the month,” Lader said.
It appeared the unseasonably warm temperatures were not coming to an end anytime soon.
“We look like we’re going to be continuing to see continued above-normal temperatures maybe even perhaps into the weekend and early next week before cooling off a little bit,” Lader said.
Highs in Phoenix were expected to drop to nearly 70 degrees next week before climbing back up to nearly 80.
Tucson should experience highs in the upper 60s before going back to the mid-70s.
KTAR News’ Jim Cross contributed to this report.
