November 2024
November 2024
[2024] November
The Eleventh Month
Mars rises on the 1 st at midnight just below the Twins of Gemini with Jupiter high above. A close conjunction of the Moon and Saturn occurs on the tenth. On the 16 th , a telescope may reveal Uranus just to the right of the Pleiades star cluster. Many Meteor showers may be viewed this month: Northern Taurids on the 9 th S in the Late Evening, Leonids Best on the 17-18 South in the predawn, Andomedid on the 25-27 S in the late Evening.​
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Moon Phases (Mountain Standard Time]
New Moon 1st Day
First Quarter 9th Day
Full Moon 15th Day – Pleasant cold Moon (O’odham)
Last quarter 22nd Day
Moon Signs
Best Time To:
Bake: Nov 18,19
Brew: Nov 1,2,28,29
Begin diet to lose weight: Nov 16,25
Plant aboveground crops: Nov 1,2,10,11
Plant belowground crops: Nov 18,19,28,29
Best Fishing Days (moon between new and full): Nov 1-15
November has 30 days.
“The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.” – Henry Rollins
November Weather
“Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.”
- Charles Dudley Warner
Tucson Weather Averages For November (1991-2020)
Record High 94 (1924 & 2020)
Record Low 19 (11/19/1919)
Record Monthly Precipitation
Maximum 2.09 in (11/22/1931)
November
Flora and Fauna
Desert Broom is spreading clouds of fluffy seeds (and allergens). Tips of mesquite branches can brown and die. Deciduous trees, especially
in watery areas turn golden and start dropping. If it freezes, leaves of other desert trees
will start dying and dropping as well.
Reptiles will start hibernating, though some
smaller critters may be seen if the weather warms for a few days. Some small
mammals may hibernate, though most remain active. Larger mammals remain active
through the cold season. Anna’s hummingbirds are seen frequently establishing winter
territories; male phainopeplas, beautiful crest black birds, arrive from there summers
homes. Their gray female mates follow soon after.
Notable November Dates:
November 5, 1912 Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage.
November 6, 1988: Emma Stone, American actress born in Scottsdale, Arizona.
November 9, 1837: Birthday of Samuel H. Drachman, Tucson businessman, legislator, and member of pioneer Jewish Family. Drachman School is named for him (d. 1911).
November 13, 1920: Jack Elam, American actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo), born in Miami, Arizona (d.2003).
November 15, 1940: Premier in Tucson of the movie Arizona, starring William Holden and Jean Arthur. The movie set that became Old Tucson was built for this film.
November 17, 1856: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
November 19, 1977: Birthday of Kerri Strug, medal winning Olympic Gymnast.
November 20, 1751: The Pima Revolt (O'odham Uprising) was a revolt of Pima native Americans in 1751 against colonial forces in Spanish Arizona and one of the major northern frontier conflicts in early New Spain.
November 22, 1949: Birthday of Richard Carmona, physician, nurse, police officer, public health administrator, politician, and 17 th Surgeon General of the U.S.
November 25, 1893: Birthday of Joseph Wood Krutch, American writer, critic, and naturalist, best known for his nature books on the American Southwest (d.1970).
November 29, 1906: Birthday of Edward Holland "Ned' Spicer, an American anthropologist who specialized in studying American Indian tribes of the American Southwest as a participant-observer (d.1983).
November 30, 1929: Birthday of Joan Ganz Cooney, founder of the Children's Television
Workshop (Sesame Street), born in Phoenix, Arizona.