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Records: Highs: EWR: 96 (2019) NYC: 93 (2019) LGA: 95 (2019) JFK: 95 (2019) Lows: EWR: 39 (1997) NYC: 39 *1886) LGA: 42 (2003) JFK: 43 (2009) Historical: 1858 A hurricane with category 1 winds hit San Diego, CA, the only documented hurricane to strike California in history. This occurred before official weather observations began. Winds of at least 75 mph were estimated based on damage and journalistic accounts. Extensive wind damage to property neared F2 tornado scale damage. Streets were swept clean by heavy rains. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1867: A hurricane struck Galveston, TX with a storm surge that produced $1 million dollars damage. (Ref. AccWeather Weather History) 1882 - An early season windstorm over Oregon and northern California blew down thousands of trees and caused great crop damage in the Sacramento Valley. (David Ludlum) 1882:Louisiana was struck by major hurricane with winds reaching 100 mph and a 12-foot storm surge affecting the coast and bayous. 1,500 people were killed. (Ref. AccWeather Weather History) 1899: Earliest frost @ WBO 33° and 4 consecutive dates rec. 1st - 4th. (Ref. Washington Weather Records - KDCA) 1899: Boston, Massachusetts had a trace of snow today for the earliest recorded snow for the city. (Ref. NOAA Boston Weather Events) 1951: The center of a Tropical Storm crossed Florida from near Fort Myers to Vero Beach. Rainfall totals ranged from 8 to 13 inches along the track, but no strong winds occurred near the center. The strong winds of 50 to 60 mph were all in squalls along the lower east coast and Keys, causing minor property damage. The greatest damage was from rains that flooded farms and pasture lands over a broad belt extending from Naples, Fort Myers, and Punta Gorda on the west coast to Stuart, Fort Pierce, and Vero Beach on the east. Roadways damaged and several bridges washed out. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1953: An unseasonable heat ridge brought record heat from the Plains to the Appalachians. Several locations reported their warmest October temperatures on record including: Evansville, IN: 94°, St. Louis, MO: 94° (later tied), Springfield, IL: 93° (later tied), Louisville, KY: 92° (later tied then broken), Platteville, WI: 91°, Mondovi, WI: 90° and Duluth, MN: 86°. (Ref. Additional Temperatures Listed On This Link) 1959 - A tornado struck the town of Ivy, VA (located near Charlottesville). Eleven persons were killed, including ten from one family. (The Weather Channel) 1963: Hurricane Flora moved across the south coast of Haiti and then meandered across eastern Cuba for the next 5 days, lashing the island with winds of 100 mph or more for at least 100 hours. Astronomical rainfall amounts as much as 90 inches were reported near Velasco. More rain was reported at Guantanamo Bay from Flora than was reported during the entire year of 1962. Flora remains the 2nd deadliest hurricane ever in the Atlantic, with over 7,000 deaths. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1980: Several locations reported all-time October high temperature records including Palm Springs, CA: 116°, Borrego Springs, CA: 113 °F (This record was tied the next day), Yuma, AZ: 112°, Medford, OR: 99°, Eugene, OR: 94°, Blue Canyon, CA: 88° and Astoria, OR: 85°- since tied. (The Weather Channel) 1980 - The temperature at Blue Canyon, CA, soared to 88 degrees, an October record for that location. (The Weather Channel) 1981 - Severe thunderstorms raked Phoenix, AZ, with heavy rain, high winds, and hail up to an inch and a half in diameter, for the second day in a row. Thunderstorms on the 1st deluged Phoenix with .68 inch of rain in five minutes, equalling their all-time record. (The Weather Channel) 1987 - A fast moving cold front produced snow flurries from Minnesota to the Appalachian Mountains, and gale force winds behind the front ushered cold air into the Great Lakes Region. Valentine NE reported a record low of 25 degrees. Temperatures recovered rapidly in the Northern High Plains Region, reaching the lower 80s by afternoon. Jackson, WY, warmed from a morning low of 21 degrees to an afternoon high of 76 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) 1988 - Early morning thunderstorms in Georgia produced three inches of rain at Canton and Woodstock. (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Flooding due to thunderstorm rains in the southeastern U.S. on the last day of September and the first day of October caused the Etowah River to rise seven feet above flood stage at Canton GA. Thunderstorms produced up to ten inches of rain in northeastern Georgia, with six inches reported at Athens GA in 24 hours. One man was killed, and another man was injured, when sucked by floodwaters into drainage lines. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 2000: Tremendous rains fell across South Florida due to a developing sub-tropical storm. Miami picked up 12.24 inches of rain in 24 hours and 15 inches in 2 days. The storm would go on to become Tropical Storm Leslie. 2003: Alaska: Temperatures around 70 °F in many Alaska communities set many all-time October maximum records by as much as 17 °F. In Chalkytsik, the high of 75 °F broke the old record by 16 F degrees. Other daily record highs included: Fort Yukon: 70°, Fairbanks: 70°, Homer: 60° and Bettles: 57 °F. (Ref. WxDoctor)

71 / 65 warmest day for a while mid - upper 80s in the warmest spots. Clouds / showers into WPA could push east by this evening otherwise a sunny warm day. Weekend split nice Satruday - cloudy and showery Sunday. 10/5 - 10/10 overall near normal beyond there ridge into the east with overall warmer into mid month.

Cottonelle soft weenies.

it's also funny because it's effective many weak weenies in this forum

lawn is def. not stressed, hope we get to mow late today

We have some stressed trees here, but I did notice the typical maples are kind of vibrant this year too.

I'm bracing for impact. My only hope is that the Super Nino and PDO act as deconstructive forces that somehow allow us to see wintry weather.

Idk…the trees don’t seem stressed. We’ve had decent rain in Aug and Sep unlike last year. The colors are vibrant…not the sickly looking color last year that quickly browned. I think all of those cooler max temp days and 50s for highs are having an effect.

mm what that Wiki definition misses is the psycho-babble 'real' reason why that practice of over-bearing attention to grammatical details become a thing in the first place. Shame of personal ignorance and petty need to come across as smarter than they fear they've just been exposed... I've seen countless online exchanges between people that grew heated ... usually over remarkably low-bar intellectual nuggets if not petty avoidance of admitting one is wrong. The one that's getting most irate and taking it personally first is both usually most wrong, and, the one that starts nit picking not just grammar but semantics, too. The reason people do that, they don't even have to be in a hostile state, either. They arrive to the on-line scene with self-doubt and hiding already in mind. They've taken on that role in online relating because they actually don't bring substantive value, either in in the form of learned information, nor innovative thinking - either way. Dullard, and trying to hide it. So they're relying on something easy, and ultimately a tactically avoidant redirect.

I was just thinking, hasn’t really been many cold mornings either. Maybe a little summer Stein helps?

Models not doing well. Going to be a long winter.

Peppers in October are the best all season. Vegetables harvested through November. All acorns are down on 10/2. Winds frequently gust 55-65. Tolland is absolutely amazing…what a place. Obviously I’m just busting your chops pal…but I just couldn’t resist.

The leaves are really popping here. I can’t recall the last time they looked this good this early locally. Even the oaks are starting to flip. Already 68° off a min of 60.4°

Womp womp

He’s in holland I think…

The neighbor is too busy trying to get his peppers back..lol

I want to thank you fellows for my dementia suppressing urge to look up mornings. As always ….

True. I still have a lot banked because I didn't use the heater this year except in late May. Usually in Sept I run through most of the banked energy, but this year the weather wasn't the best to swim late in the season. I bank a ton from Oct-May.

Yeah looking like only 2 cool mornings with only 1 of those days cool all day and then lots of upper 60s to low 70s..maybe mid 70s by next Friday

“Me fail English? That’s unpossible.”

43 this morning. Upper 30s in the suburbs. Almost time to fire up the furnace.

He loves doing that to people so I couldn't resist.

Heck of a way to run a Super Duper El Nino