Looking back on November, things were dry and a little warm.

Temperatures were three to five degrees above normal with only a few areas of the state receiving much-needed rain but other than that, it remained dry says Chris Miller with the National Weather Service in Lincoln.

As we look back at the fall as a whole, Miller indicates it was more of the same with below normal rainfall. He says much-needed rain to recharge the soil and fill the wells and aquifers just did not happen. 

As for temperatures, things look normal for the fall months but according to Miller, it wasn't normal at all thanks to extremes in temperature swings, most notably some days temperatures would be in the 50s or 60s but then overnight temperatures would drop below freezing.

The first hard-freeze was later than normal and Miller points out, there was no measurable snowfall in November, which is unusual as we average around two-inches of snow for November.