Two Rivers, Wisconsin

... Rhinelander Thanksgiving day statistics...

Thanksgiving was celebrated on the last Thursday of November
until 1939. Beginning in 1941... Thanksgiving was celebrated
on the 4th Thursday of November. Here is a look at the
Thanksgiving statistics for Rhinelander.

At Rhinelander...

Temperature records date back to 1908 at Rhinelander (100
years of reliable data).

Warmest temperature 61 in 1914
coldest temperature -11 in 1929 and 1985

Record low maximum -2 in 1929
record high minimum 38 in 1914

Warmest average temperature 49.5 in 1914
coldest average temperature -6.5 in 1929

Wettest Thanksgiving 0.65 inches in 1908
snowiest Thanksgiving 3.0 inches in 1978
greatest snowdepth 12 inches in 1985


            high low mean precip snowfall snowdepth

1997 44 26 35.0 0.00 0.0 0
1998 51 27 39.0 0.00 0.0 0
1999 45 29 37.0 0.00 0.0 0
2000 22 7 14.5 0.00 0.0 5
2001 51 28 39.5 0.00 0.0 0
2002 29 15 22.0 0.00 0.0 0
2003 33 28 30.5 0.50 0.2 T
2004 31 14 22.5 0.00 0.0 0
2005 13 4 8.5 0.07 2.1 2
2006 54 25 39.5 0.00 0.0 0
2007 27 14 21.0 T T 0
2008 33 20 27.0 0.03 0.3 T

                           1887-2006 1971-2000

Average high temperature 32 35
average low temperature 17 16
average mean temperature 25 26

Here is breakdown of temperatures on Thanksgiving

               high temperatures

Highs occurrences percent
below 0 1 1
0-9 0 0
10-19 9 9
20-29 23 23
30-39 47 47
40-49 14 14
50-59 5 5
60-69 1 1

               low temperatures

Lows occurrences percent

Below 0 4 4
0-9 22 22
10-19 28 28
20-29 36 36
30-39 10 10
40-49 0 0

Precipitation data at Rhinelander dates back to 1908 (100 years
of reliable data).

Number of days
of precipitation occurrences percent


Greater than or equal to a trace 49 49
greater than or equal to 0.01 inch 37 37
greater than or equal to 0.10 inch 14 14
greater than or equal to 0.25 inch 5 5
greater than or equal to 0.50 inch 3 3

Snowfall data at Rhinelander dates back to 1908 (100 years of
reliable data). Here is a list of occurrences of snowfall
on Thanksgiving day.

Number of days
of snowfall occurrences percent


Greater than or equal to a trace 42 42
greater than or equal to 0.1 inch 29 29
greater than or equal to 1.0 inch 13 13
greater than or equal to 3.0 inches 1 1
greater than or equal to 5.0 inches 0 0

Snow depth data at Rhinelander dates back to 1908 (only
83 years of reliable snow depth data). Here is a look at
snowdepth on the morning of Thanksgiving.

Snowdepth occurrences percent

Greater than or equal to trace 60 72
greater than or equal to 1 inch 43 52
greater than or equal to 3 inches 24 29
greater than or equal to 5 inches 13 16
greater than or equal to 8 inches 5 6
greater than or equal to 12 inches 1 1