Thursday, October 15, 2009

Chilly and Wet Start to October

We are still two weeks away from Halloween, but the weather feels more like Thanksgiving. Our average high temperature this past week has been 52°, which is the normal high for November 19. Cloudy, drizzly, rainy. That's pretty much how you can describe October so far this year.

Some stats:

October 1 - 14
  • Mean Temperature (normal): 50.04° (59.43°)
  • Total Rainfall (monthly norm): 7.88" (3.25")
  • Days meeting/exceeding average high temp: 0
From the NWS STL website, these are the top ten coldest periods from October 1-14 in Columbia, MO:
  Value   Year
1 50.2 2009
2 51.0 1987
3 51.3 1988
4 51.8 1977
5 52.1 1917
6 54.3 1935
7 54.5 1964
8 54.7 1921,1952
10 55.0 1908
Finally, check out this month's temperature graph so far.

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