October's Weather- 1st: TS Laura loses it's tropical characteristics and weakens over the cold Atlantic waters without coming close to any land.
- 3rd: After a week of heat and record high temperatures a Cold Front brought relieve to Southern California. Mount Washington's observatory reported its first snowfall of the season of 3.2 inches.
- 6th: TS Marco forms in the Bay of Campeche.
- 7th: Tiny TS Marco comes ashore in southern Mexico with winds gusting to 65 mph, but cause little to no damage.
- 8th: A line of severe storms swept across the Southeast, spawning a couple of tornadoes. No injuries were reported.In the Florida Panhandle, a tornado ripped through several neighborhoods, damaging homes and businesses near a state park in Panama City. In southeastern Alabama, an apparent tornado touched down in Enterprise, causing structural damage to the city's civic center. About 2,600 homes and businesses in the area were without power during the height of the storm.
- 11th: The season's first winter weather event produced moderate to heavy snow across the northern Rockies and Plains, along with winds as high as 55 mph. Parts of Montana and Wyoming had 3 feet of snow.
- 12th: TS Nana forms well out in the Atlantic. The NWS issued a red flag warning across the Sacramento region due to low humidity and gusty winds continued high fire danger. Hurricane Norbert came ashore at Mexico's Baja California with heavy rains and damaging winds that gusted over 100 mph.
- 13th-14th: Wild Fires in southern California were made worst by a Santa Ana wind that gusted to 70 mph, high temperatures and very dry air.
- 13th: Hurricane Norbert crossed the Baja and came onland to NW Mexico much weakened, but still causing damage with heavy rains and strong winds. At least 3 deaths were blamed on the storm.
- 14th: Tropical Storm Omar formed in eastern Caribbean and becomes a hurricane later at night.
- 15th: Moving slowly NE in the Caribbean towards the islands of Vieques and Culebra and the US Virgin Islands, Omar becomes a Cat 2 with winds near 105 mph and before midnight reached Cat 3.
- 16th: Omar passes between the major islands of the Leeward Islands, giving them heavy rains and winds gusting into the 60s. Damage for the most part was minor for the islands on the left side, but on the right side there was a strong surge with buildings damaged. Later in the day, racing NE, Omar rapidly weakened to a Tropical Storm.
- 17th: Omar became a hurricane again, but then weakened back to a Tropical Storm well out in the Atlantic.
- 20th: About 5 inches of snow accumulated at Stevens Pass, WA. Wildfires continued in parts of southern California due to the dry weather. Fires also broke out in New Jersey, which had a very dry October so far.
- 21st: A Cold Front crossed Maine, bring rain that changed to a slushy wet snow in many areas.
- 23rd: Parts of western Nebraska had over 10" of snow with wind gusts to 40 mph. While parts of Kansas had about 2" of snow with winds about 50 mph.
- 26th: A Cold Front changed rain to 1-4" of snow in parts of Upper Michigan.
- A storm along the East Coast brought heavy rains and strong winds. As the storm passed, colder air rushed in over the Northeast bringing snow. Western New York and western Pennsylvania had over a foot of snow closing schools and causing power outages.
- 28th: There are still 15 people missing from Hurricane Ike. The death toll is at least 70.
- 29th: Schools in some of the mountains of North Carolina were still closed after getting 1-3" of snow the day before.
- 29th: Northern Florida set record Lows with temperatures in the low 30s to 40.
- 30th: Lake Effect snow dropped close to a foot in some areas of western New York and NW Pennsylvania. Southern California and western Arizona had record heat with temperatures reaching the low 90s.
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