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November 1, 2007

Last month was second-warmest October on record

Journal photo/ Mary Murphy
Amy Bolduc, a URI student and babysitter, pushes her charges, Charlie Mandeville, 2, and his brother Grant, 10 months, off the Narragansett Town Beach yesterday, the last day of an October that provided plenty of warm weather for Rhode Islanders.

The National Weather Service has been keeping track of temperatures in Rhode Island since 1904. And only once in the 103 years that have passed, has there been an October with a warmer average temperature than the month that just passed.

And for all the discussion of dry weather, this was only the 22nd driest since record-keeping began with less than 2 inches of precipitation across the state.

The month got off to a record-breaking start on Oct. 3, with a 29-year high minimum temperature of 64 degrees.

Over the past 31 days, the temperature has averaged 59.6 degrees – that’s more than 6 degrees higher than October average has been each year since 1904 with the exception of 1947.

That temperature is not immediately available because of a change in which daily temperature numbers are used to compute averages.

It all comes to a chilly end today, with a cold front moving in by early evening, maybe reaching freezing temperatures in some areas of the region.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 11:25 AM | Permalink

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