The weather in October started ‘nice’ but turned cold and snowy by the end of the month.
Clinton Area Weather Observer Jim Blaess the highest temperature of the month was 85 on the First and the coldest was 27 on the 31st.
The overall temperature for the month was 51.1 degrees according to Blaess. He says that’s 1.8 degrees below the normal of 52.9 degrees.
Blaess reports the precipitation for the month was 3.56 inches which is 1.12 of an inch above the normal of 2.44 inches.
The Weather Observer says for the first ten months for the year the precipitation is 47.68 of an inch. Blaess says that’s 17.37 of an inch above the ten month average 30.31 of an inch. The precipitation through October, Blaess says is also above average for the entire year which is 34.25 on inch. Blaess with the ten month precipitation the year is already the 7th wettest on record. He says the 1961 with 52.70 of inch is the year with the most precipitation.
The 1.5 inches of snow on the 29th was the first snow in October since 1997 where there was 2.5 inches on October 26. He says there was another 3.7 inches of snow on October 31st to bring the month’s total to 5.2 inches. That broke the record October snowfall of 5 inches in 1889.
Blaess says this is the eleventh time since the records to 1887 when there was a measurable snow in October.
In another unusual factor for October snowfall, Blaess says 2019 will be third time there’s been more than one measurable snow in the month in the record to the late 1880’s. Blaess says there was snow on two days in October 1913 and three days in October 1917.
For November, Blaess says the average on the first is 51 and the average low is 38. By the end of the month the weather observer says those are averages of 40 and 24. Blaess says there is also an average of 2.12 inches of precipitation including 1.6 inches of snow.
November 2018 was the fifth coldest November in records to 1879 with 15.1 inches of snow which was the most snow in November to 1887. 12.1 inches of the month’s snow was recorded on November 25th which Blaess says was a 24 hour record for the month.
