There has been a stretch of warm weather which is unusual for the month of November. WHTM ABC 27 Meteorologist Dan Tomaso says the weather is due to a lack of rainfall.

“If you go back and look at some of our rainfall, it's been very, very dry since late pretty much late summer through fall. And so, when you get such a dry weather pattern and it's not just dry here, it's dry across most of the eastern United States, dry east of the Rockies. And you get warmth on top of that. You have a recipe that, again, dry air begets dry air. Wet air begets wet air in many ways. So, when you stay this dry consistently, it affects everything. And so even our, you know, weekly or even semiweekly rain chances that we've had have really fallen apart by the time I get to Pennsylvania. So that just leads to more sunshine. Not as many clouds. A lot less rain. And so, the process kind of repeats itself.”

In addition, just last month, we were the fourth driest on record. So, it's gotten worse progressively as we've gone through fall. So now we're in a four-inch hole just in the last 30 days. So, we need a lot of rain, and we need it somewhat soon to alleviate these drought conditions again.

“We're talking about over several months. And so it takes a long time to now get out of those drought conditions. And why do we care about such things? Well, our drinking water response to this that we have to start conserving water so we make sure we have it for critical needs. Our reservoirs start to get lower, our creeks, our streams start to get lower, and that all plays into it.”

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