The October weather was split into half -with Clinton Area Official Weather Observer Jim Blaess reporting the first half of the month was warm and dry with second half cooler and wet.
Blaess says in the first half of October there was .22 of an inch of precipitation and in the last half there was 1.66 of an inch. The weather observer says the total of the month of 1.88 of an inch was about half an inch below the normal of 2.44 inches.
In the first ten months of the year the precipitation is 31.72 inches. Blaess says that’s 1.41 inches below the normal for the year to date normal of 30.31.
The overall average temperature of the month, according to Blaess was 50.3. He says that’s 2.6 degrees below the normal of 52.9 degrees.
Blaess says the highest temperature for the month was on the 9th when it was 82 and the lowest temperature was 25 on the 28th.
In November, Blaess says you can expect 2.12 inches of precipitation including 1.6 inches of snow.
The Clinton weather observer noted that last year was just over three inches of snow on November 11th and that was on top of snow in late October. He says in 2019 there was also a record low on November the 12th when it was two below zero – the first subzero reading in November in 42 years. The old record for the date had been 1921 with 9 degrees.
Blaess says the average high on November First is 57 and average low is 38 and those drop to averages of 40 and 24 by the end of the month.
