It's already been discussed quite a bit in the main October thread, but I think it will probably be thread worthy by the time it arrives... and it's sort of fun to pull the trigger in advance on one of these and see how it pans out. After a cool down this week to around October 1, it appears like the general western trough/eastern ridge pattern reasserts, and in a big way.  We will already be on a warming trend in the first 2 or 3 days of October, but the real heat looks to set in on a more