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This has been a truly incredible month in Salt Lake City.
For some context:
As of the end of September 2019, the last time a month had been more than 2F below average in Salt Lake City was December 2013. In fact, out of the 69 months since then, only 7 had been below average at all. January 2014 to September 2019 in Salt Lake City is an unprecedented run of exceptional warmth.
Then, out of nowhere...coldest October on record!
Data:
Average high: 58.0F/14.4C (6.7F/3.7C below average)
Average low: 35.0F/1.6C (6.3F/3.5C below average)
All-time monthly record low set: 14F/-10C, 30 October 2019. Previous record: 16F/-8.9C, set on 30 October 1971.
Precipitation: 0.49in/12.4mm, 32% of normal.
Snow: Officially a trace, but at my location (bit southeast of central SLC) I would estimate it at around 1 inch or a bit more, in two snow events - one on the 27th and one on the 29th. Both of these were forecast to have much more, but ended up drying out a bit. This was the first snow in October since 2012 (though I was not here to see that one).
As just a final note: 9 of SLC's "coldest month" records were set in 1970 or earlier, and the remaining two were set in 1993 (July, during an exceptionally cool and wet summer across nearly all of the US) and 2000 (November, during an exceptionally cold autumn across nearly all of the US).
In the age of climate change, I doubt we will ever see another record-cold month here anytime soon, barring some kind of volcanic winter event. I'm glad I got to see this possible-last-one.
Slightly above average, mostly during the heatwave at the beginning of the month. Snowfall of a T occurred in the last hour of the month. Overall a pretty good month, lots of sunshine and a few heavy rainstorms brought flooding. Looking forward to a cold november
The month of October was colder than average but most notably extremely wet. 24mm fell on 1st then we had 33mm on 25th and 27mm on 26th. There was no temperature higher than 16°C despite the average high for October being around 20°C.
The weather station I've been using to record these temperatures seems to under read quite a bit, compared to my own station and the official station.
The average high/low for the official station and mine are as follows:
Official:
Max 12.6°C
Min 6.7°C
Mine:
Max: 12.5°C
Min: 6.9°C
I had the mildest of all stations by mean temperature.
Last edited by Eman Resu VIII; 11-18-2019 at 03:31 PM..
I never posted here at the end of October, but this past October was the eighth coldest on record for the Oklahoma City area. We had our third earliest freeze on record, and I saw snowflakes on October 30, my personal record for the earliest I've seen snow. There was some miserable cold rain before then as well. If you ignore the first five days, which were a continuation of September's crazy warmth, the last 26 days of the month were the third coldest such period on record. We had five freezes, which was the most of any October since 1925. It got down to 23F/-5C, the coldest October temperature since 1993.
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