***November blizzards are a rarity;***
Not really. I remember, in the Ozarks, snows on Thanksgiving day back in the late 1950s. The fall and winter of 1976-1977 was brutal cold on Thanksgiving day. 18 degrees and wind blowing. Bitter cold!
That January of 1977 the Continental US had constant cloud cover the entire month.
All this was used as proof we were entering THE COMING ICE AGE!
In the 1980s we had several brutal Nov cold snaps that froze pipes under the house and killed new bushes I had just bought and put out around the house.
Wind chill was -30 degrees.
The plant I worked at was not winterized and everything started freezing up. We had to fight for a week to keep it on line.
Record lows set in every state but Hawaii. It snowed in Miami and Homestead and Freeport, Bahamas. The Ohio River froze. Lake Erie had already frozen by Dec. 14, contributing to one of the greatest blizzards of the Last Century late January 1977.