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Northeast Regional Climate Center |
The Northeast was 1.5 degrees above normal this October. Only West Virginia was cooler than average (departure of -0.9 degrees). New England and New York averaged about a degree warmer than the rest of the region. Maine recorded the coolest temperature in the region (46.7 degrees), but the largest temperature departure (2.6 degrees). This was the warmest October since 1995.
Not one state in the Northeast came closer than an inch to reaching the average precipitation total this month. The average for the Northeast as a whole was 1.84 inches, only 53% of the norm. No records were in danger of being broken, but the lack of rain/snow was still substantial in many states. Connecticut and Massachusetts were both 3.05 inches below normal, the 8th and 5th driest for their respective state records. Maryland and New Jersey measured less than an inch of precipitation on the month - the sixth driest on record for both. Pennsylvania was the least dry of the 12 states but still only recorded 68% of its average total. The last time the Northeast had a wetter than normal October was in 1996.
Monthly Summary of State Temperature and Precipitation Averages.