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WGAL News 8 Storm Team · 19 hours ago · OCTOBER PREVIEW 2026 is flying by as we begin the final 3 months of the year! As we continue to lose daylight and the colder weather prepares to move in, here is a look at the average number for October. Our average high temperature will drop from 72° in the beginning of the month to 60° by Halloween. At night, we say goodbye to the 50s and drop to the low 40s. For precipitation, we usually receive about 3.81" of rainfall. October also begins our series of average snowfall totals. On average, we receive 0.2" of snow in October. Don't get too excited snow-lovers, the last time we had measurable snowfall in the month of October was on October 29, 2011 during the Halloween nor'easter. The average first measurable snowfall for a majority of the Susquehanna Valley isn't until around or after Thanksgiving. Below are the temperature and precipitation outlooks from the Climate Prediction Center. These maps show where the pattern favors above or below average temperatures & precipitation. Both maps give south central Pennsylvania an equal chance for either outcome, meaning the overall pattern doesn't lean one way or the other. Overall, a "typical" October is expected in both categories.

It was a great elevation snowstorm. Even in CT the higher elevators received a lot.

I hear acorns falling on my roof, can you send your neighbor over for a cleanup?

time to update that location friend

Sunday trended dry thankfully

This is the mid atl thread bro. lol

Warm spots from Philly to Newark could be closer to the AI in the mid to upper 80s with enough sun today. It’s possible some of the locally cooler spots across the region could dip under 40° next week with some frost. But looks like a quick warm up a few days later. Not much cold to work with so much warmth across the CONUS.

Only took a week for things to finally clear out.

60 degrees this morning and it sure is foggy out.

66/65 time for the humidity to vacate......waiting for a brisk wind later.

Well... we all remember January 2016, so, if we're using 2015-2016 as an analog... not bad.

It was a+2.1 event up until a few years ago before the CPC dropped it to +1.8. So until very recently it was rated as a lower end super. In any event, it’s rare to get a +AO +EPO +WPO pattern in October regardless of the ENSO. We haven’t since this October combination since the 2011 La Niña. But this time around we are getting a stronger mid-latitude ridge across the CONUS than 2011 had. Unusual to get such a strong TPV this early in the season.

63f low. Good sleeping wx. Windows open. Sent from my SM-S921U using Tapatalk

Forecast from the Canadian seasonal of various climate data indices. Big positive sst anomalies still look too west to me. https://dd.weather.gc.ca/today/ensemble/cansips/csv/indices/forecast/monthly/ 2026093000_indices_month_202610_202709.csv.PDF

If by interesting you mean 0 snowfall and +10F winter months then sure

68° now that's a torch.

@CoastalWx wants one? Pad his yard snow totals? https://www.powder.com/news/ski-ward-begins-snowmaking-september

Wow man precip is beginning to blossom all over south central Texas at 3am Texas time! It happened all of a sudden! There was this big yellow blob heading for Kyle then everything suddenly blossomed all over! BRING IT THE HELL ON, EL NINO! Woooooooooooo-----Hooooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its funny how all the gloom and doom posts are already out.

Im loving this. Rare things equals interesting winter ahead.