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[2025] November
The Eleventh Month
November Night Watch: Aquarius, the Water Carrier, is best seen in November in the Southern Sky. This part of the sky is known as “The Sea,” the dwelling place of
Capricorn (the Sea Goat), the Dolphin, Pieces, and Cetus, the Sea Monster. Casseopia forms a “W” in the northern sky in the evening. Venus is the morning star low in the East early in the month, replaced by Mercury during the last week of November. The Moon is closest to the Earth on the 5 th . Jupiter rises in the late evening and is visible throughout the rest of the night. This may be your best chance to view Uranus; it reaches opposition on the 21 st and can be viewed as a green light below the Pleiades late at night. Binoculars or a telescope will help to see its brightest viewing since the 1990s. Lots of meteor showers in November. The Northern Taurids peak on November 9; a few streaks can be seen in the late evening in the South. The Leonids should put on a pretty good show predawn in the South on November 17-18. In the late evening of November 25-27, the Andromadids will appear in the South.
October Moon Signs
Moon Phases
Full Moon 5 th Day – Pleasant cold Moon
(O’Odham)
Last quarter 12 th Day
New Moon 20 th Day
First Quarter 28 th Day
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Best Time To:
Bake: Nov 8-10
Brew: Nov 18,19
Begin diet to lose weight: Nov 10,15
Plant above ground crops: Nov 1,28,29
Plant below ground crops: Nov 8-10
Best Fishing Days (moon between new and full): Nov 1-5,20-30​
November has 30 days.
"November is tied together with the heartstrings of gratitude." - J. A. McIntosh
November Weather
“November is soft. The hot edges of October are gone, and the sharp cold of January
and February is still a distant threat…We may see a little snow in the mountains, a little rain in the lower deserts, and possibly a freeze, too.”
Rosann Beggy Hanson and Jonathan Hanson​
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TUCSON WEATHER AVERAGES FOR OCTOBER
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 (Baccharis sarothroides) continues spreading clouds of fluffy seeds (and allergens). Tips of mesquite branches can brown and die. Deciduous trees, especially in areas with water, 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 crested black birds, arrive from their summer
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 TelevisionWorkshop (Sesame Street), born in Phoenix, Arizona.