October: The cold, hard facts

The last weekend of September was absolutely beautiful and as we head deeper and deeper into the fall months those near perfect weekends will become few and far between.  Before we look ahead to the month of October, September ended the eleven month above average monthly temperature streak we had going!  It finished one degree below normal.  This was the longest stretch of above average weather since the year long warmer than normal stretch from January 1938 to January 1939!  Pretty impressive if you ask me! 

Now on to October.  The monthly average high at the beginning of the year is right around 69 degrees with the temperature falling to 56 degrees by Halloween.  Ironically, by the end of this week we'll experience temperatures potentially even lower than the end of the month averages.  Precipitation for the month is 2.67 inches and we've even added the four letter 'S' word to the equation where the average snowfall is 0.1 inches.