November 2014 featured frequent bouts of early-season arctic air and snow, setting records in parts of the nation from the Pacific Northwest to Florida and the East Coast.

Some of these were new records for the month of November, a November calendar day, a snowstorm, or the earliest in the season it has been so cold or there has been so much snow.

Let's recap some of the notable records we saw across the nation during the month, starting with the cold.

November 2014 Cold Temperature Departures

Map of overall temperature departures in November 2014. Deeper blue colors correspond to the coldest temperatures, relative to November averages.

(NOAA/CPC)

Cold Records

Thanks to a procession of cold fronts tapping air from Siberia and the North Pole in mid-November, several locations witnessed one of their coldest Novembers on record:

-Record coldest November:Marquette (Negaunee Township), Michigan; Rhinelander, Wisconsin

- One of top three coldest Novembers: Alma, Georgia (2nd coldest); Jacksonville and Tallahassee, Florida (each 3rd coldest)

Other locations chalked up a daily low temperature that set a record for the month of November, including:

- Casper, Wyoming: -27 (Nov. 12) and -26 (Nov. 13) each was colder than previous record of -21 (Nov. 23, 1985)

- Burlington, Colorado: -10 (Nov. 13) bested previous record of -3 (Nov. 30, 2006)

- Redmond, Oregon: -17 (Nov. 15) and -19 (Nov. 16) each was colder than previous record of -14 (Nov. 15, 1955)

- Joplin, Missouri: 6 (Nov. 18) bested previous record of 7 (Nov. 29, 1976)

Many other records were set for the coldest temperatures (highs or lows) so early in the season, including:

- Denver: Lows of -13 on Nov. 12 and -14 on Nov. 13

- Lubbock, Texas: High of 27 on Nov. 12

- Charleston, West Virginia: Low of 12 on Nov. 19

- Charlotte, North Carolina: Low of 14 on Nov. 19

- Jacksonville, Florida: Low of 24 on Nov. 20

- Macon, Georgia: Earliest teens on record (17 on Nov. 19); previous earliest teens occurred on Nov. 20, 1914.

Finally, there were several record-long November streaks, including:

- Dallas/Ft. Worth: Six straight days of highs of 45 degrees or colder (Nov. 12-17)

- Chicago: 180 straight hours below freezing (late on Nov. 11 until late morning Nov. 19)

- Des Moines, Iowa: 10 straight days with subfreezing highs (Nov. 11-20).

(RECAP:November Cold Outbreaks)

Resulting from the cold, ice cover brought a record earliest end to navigation along a stretch of the Upper Mississippi River near the Twin Cities, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Ice were seen in some harbors of Lake Superior, the Milwaukee River, and along the shore of Lake Winnebago, over a month before winter officially arrived.

Snow Records

Given the abundance of cold air in place, it seems no surprise that snow was more widespread than usual for November. In fact, this started on the day after Halloween.

A potent upper-level low with just enough cold air near the surface squeezed out an unusually early-season snow in parts of South Carolina, north Georgia and the Smoky Mountains. Among the notables:

- Columbia, South Carolina: Earliest trace of snow on record (Nov. 1), leap-frogging the previous earliest record date by eight days (Nov. 9, 1913). Areas just west of Columbia picked up 5 inches of wet snow.

- Blairsville, Georgia: Earliest snow on record (Nov. 1; 0.5 to 2 inches). The previous earliest snow was believed to be Nov. 10, 1968.

- Sugar Mountain, North Carolina: Second earliest opening on record (Nov. 2). Only the Appalachians snowstorm from Superstorm Sandy in 2012prompted an earlier opening.

This storm went on to bring Caribou, Maine, its earliest-in-season double-digit snowfall (10.1 inches on Nov. 2).

Winter Storm Astro delivered St. Cloud, Minnesota, its record heaviest November calendar day snow (13.2 inches on Nov. 10).

This winter storm saved its biggest wallop for tiny Gile, Wisconsin, to the tune of 50.1 inches of snow over a four-day period from Nov. 10-14. This may have been a Wisconsin state snowstorm record, pending official certification.

After Winter Storm Bozeman dumped the heaviest November snowstorm of record in Boise, Idaho (7.6 inches on Nov. 13-14), heavy snow clobbered many of the lake-effect snowbelts, particularly western New York, northern Lower Michigan, and the state's Upper Peninsula.

While receiving two discrete rounds of lake-effect snow, and the fact lighter amounts fell over the official observing site at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, suffice to say up to 88 inches of snow (over 7 feet) was measured from both rounds in the Buffalo Southtowns from Nov. 17-21.

This prolonged push of very cold air over the relatively warm Great Lakes also squeezed out a record three-day snowstorm, not just for November, but for any time of year, in Gaylord, Michigan (29.6 inches Nov. 18-20).

(FULL RECAPS: Winter Storm Bozeman | Buffalo Area Lake-Effect Snow)

In all, here were the cities chalking up their snowiest Novembers on record in 2014:

- Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan: 65.4 inches (old record was 46.8 inches in 1989)

- Marquette (Negaunee Twp.), Michigan: 53 inches (old record was 48.9 inches in 1991)

- Rhinelander, Wisconsin: 32.4 inches (old record was 21.5 inches in 1957)

- Grand Rapids, Michigan: 31 inches (old record was 28.2 inches in 1895)

- Bangor, Maine: 25.9 inches (old record was 24.6 inches in 1962)

According to the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, North America snow cover reached a record extent for mid-November (15.35 million square kilometers), crushing the old record from 1985 by over 2 million square kilometers. Records at Rutgers date to 1966.

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