National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

THE JACKSON WEATHER OFFICE AND THE LONDON CORBIN AIRPORT FINISHED UP
OCTOBER 2006 COOLER THAN NORMAL. LONDON WAS TWO DEGREES BELOW
NORMAL...AND JACKSON WAS NEARLY THREE DEGREES COOLER. MUCH WETTER
THAN NORMAL CONDITIONS WERE ALSO PRESENT FOR OCTOBER 2006. JACKSON
WAS WELL OVER TWO INCHES ABOVE NORMAL...WHILE THE LONDON CORBIN
AIRPORT WAS NEARLY ONE INCH WETTER. ALSO OF NOTE...MANY EASTERN
KENTUCKY RESIDENTS GOT THEIR FIRST GLIMPSE OF SNOW LAST MONTH WHEN
FLURRIES WERE NOTED AT MANY LOCATIONS ON OCTOBER 23RD. SEEING SNOW
IN OCTOBER IS NOT UNHEARD OFF IN EASTERN KENTUCKY...ALTHOUGH IT IS
RARE. SINCE 1981...ONLY 1989...1993 AND 2001 HAD REPORTED SNOW IN
OCTOBER UNTIL LAST MONTH.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE NEAR JACKSON ENDED OCTOBER
2006 WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 54.6 DEGREES...WHICH IS 2.9
DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THE AVERAGE DAILY HIGH WAS 63.9 DEGREES...AND
THE AVERAGE DAILY LOW WAS 45.4 DEGREES. OCTOBER 2006 WAS THE
THIRD COOLEST OCTOBER ON RECORD. THE COOLEST OCTOBER WAS 51.3
DEGREES FROM 1988. THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE FOR OCTOBER 2006 WAS 81
DEGREES AND OCCURRED ON THE 4TH. NO DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS
WERE SET OR TIED LAST MONTH. THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE FROM LAST MONTH
WAS 28 DEGREES...WHICH HAPPENED ON THE 25TH AND ALSO SET A DAILY LOW
TEMPERATURE RECORD FOR THAT DAY. LOW TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE ALSO
ESTABLISHED ON THE 12TH WITH 31 DEGREES...AND ON THE 21ST WITH 33
DEGREES. TWO MINIMUM HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE ESTABLISHED
DURING OCTOBER 2006...AND ONE WAS TIED. 54 DEGREES ON THE 13TH...41
DEGREES ON THE 23RD SET NEW BENCHMARKS...WHILE 57 DEGREES ON THE 6TH
TIED THE MINIMUM HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORD FOR THAT DATE.

THE JACKSON WEATHER OFFICE RECEIVED 5.49 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION IN
OCTOBER 2006...WHICH IS 2.31 INCHES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 3.18 INCHES.
LAST MONTH WAS THE SECOND MONTH IN A ROW WITH ABOVE NORMAL
PRECIPITATION AND IT HAS BEEN SINCE OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER OF 2004
SINCE THAT HAS HAPPENED. THERE WERE 11 DAYS WHEN A HUNDREDTH OF AN
INCH OR MORE OF PRECIPITATION WAS RECORDED...AND 9 DAYS WHEN A TENTH
OF AN INCH OR MORE FELL. THERE WERE 3 DAYS WHEN AT LEAST A HALF AN
INCH OF RAIN WAS RECEIVED...AND 1 DAY WHEN AT LEAST AN INCH FELL.
THE DAY OF THE 27TH NETTED 1.89 INCHES OF RAIN...WHICH WAS THE MOST
RAINFALL LOGGED IN A SINGLE DAY LAST MONTH. THE GREATEST RAINFALL IN
A 24 HOUR PERIOD WAS 2.12 INCHES FROM THE 26TH THROUGH THE 27TH. SO
FAR THIS YEAR...JACKSON HAS RECEIVED 41.17 INCHES OF
PRECIPITATION...WHICH IS 0.26 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL.
ADDITIONALLY...OCTOBER 2006 IS THE 3RD WETTEST OCTOBER ON RECORD.
FLURRIES WERE OBSERVED AT THE JACKSON WEATHER OFFICE ON THE 23RD.
THUS THE SNOWFALL TOTAL WAS A TRACE AND THIS IS THE FIRST SNOW OF
THE 2006-2007 SNOW SEASON. THIS WAS ALSO THE FIRST OCCURRENCE OF
SNOW FOR OCTOBER 23RD. FURTHERMORE...THE TRACE OF SNOW ON THE 23RD
WAS THE THIRD EARLIEST SNOW AT JACKSON. THE ONLY DATES EARLIER WERE
BOTH BACK IN 1989...WITH A TRACE OF SNOW NOTED ON THE 19TH AND A
HALF AN INCH MEASURED ON THE 20TH.

THUNDER WAS HEARD 2 DAYS LAST MONTH AT THE JACKSON WEATHER
OFFICE...WHICH IS ABOVE THE AVERAGE OF 1.3 DAYS FOR OCTOBER. THERE
WERE 18 DAYS WITH FOG...7 OF WHICH FEATURED DENSE FOG. OCTOBER
NORMALLY AVERAGES 4.3 DAYS OF DENSE FOG. 10,240 MINUTES OF SUNSHINE
WERE RECORDED LAST MONTH WHICH IS 49 PERCENT OF ALL POSSIBLE
SUNSHINE FOR THE MONTH. THE AVERAGE WIND SPEED FOR OCTOBER WAS 2.8
MPH AND THE HIGHEST WIND GUST OF 32 MPH WAS RECORDED ON THE 28TH.
THE MEAN WIND SPEED FOR OCTOBER IS TYPICALLY 5.9 MPH.

16 COOLING DEGREE DAYS WERE RECORDED AT THE JACKSON WEATHER OFFICE
IN OCTOBER...WHICH IS 13 COOLING DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THE SEASONAL
COOLING DEGREE DAY TOTAL IS NOW 1194...WHICH IS 136 COOLING DEGREE
DAYS ABOVE NORMAL. THERE WAS 330 HEATING DEGREE DAYS RECORDED AT
JACKSON LAST MONTH...WHICH IS 67 HEATING DEGREE DAYS ABOVE NORMAL
FOR THE MONTH. THE SEASONAL HEATING DEGREE DAY TOTAL IS NOW
424...WHICH IS 113 HEATING DEGREE DAYS ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE SEASON.

AT THE LONDON CORBIN AIRPORT...THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 54.5
DEGREES...WHICH IS 2.0 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL FOR OCTOBER. THE AVERAGE
DAILY HIGH WAS 65.6 DEGREES...AND THE AVERAGE DAILY LOW WAS 43.4
DEGREES. THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE FROM LAST MONTH WAS 82 DEGREES
WHICH OCCURRED ON THE 4TH. NO HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE SET OR
TIED AT LONDON LAST MONTH. THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE FROM OCTOBER 2006
WAS 27 DEGREES...AND HAPPENED ON THE 25TH. NO LOW TEMPERATURE
RECORDS WERE TIED OR BROKEN AT LONDON LAST MONTH. 43 DEGREES ON THE
23RD WAS THE ONLY MINIMUM HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORD BROKEN AT LONDON
LAST MONTH.

THE LONDON CORBIN AIRPORT RECORDED 3.76 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION IN
OCTOBER 2006...WHICH IS 0.96 INCHES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 2.80 INCHES.
THERE WERE 11 DAYS WITH A HUNDREDTH OF AN INCH OR MORE...AND 7 DAYS
WHEN A TENTH OF AN INCH OR MORE OF RAIN WAS RECORDED. LONDON HAD 3
DAYS WITH AT LEAST A HALF AN INCH...AND 1 DAY WHEN MORE THAN AN INCH
FELL. THE GREATEST DAILY AMOUNT WAS 1.29 INCHES ON THE 27TH...WHICH
ESTABLISHED A NEW DAILY HIGH PRECIPITATION RECORD FOR THAT DAY. NO
OTHER PRECIPITATION RECORDS WERE SET OR TIED AT LONDON LAST MONTH.
THE GREATEST 24 HOUR TOTAL WAS 1.74 INCHES AND HAPPENED FROM THE
26TH THROUGH THE 27TH. SINCE AUGUST 6TH 2006...THE LONDON CORBIN
AIRPORT HAS RECEIVED 17.11 INCHES...WHICH IS 8.18 INCHES ABOVE
NORMAL. NO ANNUAL PRECIPITATION TOTAL IS AVAILABLE FOR LONDON DUE TO
A PRECIPITATION SENSOR OUTAGE EARLIER THIS YEAR.

LONDON HAD 2 DAYS WITH THUNDER LAST MONTH. ALSO...THERE WERE 23 DAYS
WITH FOG...AND 8 DAYS WITH DENSE FOG. THE AVERAGE WIND SPEED FOR
OCTOBER IS 4.0 MPH...WITH THE HIGHEST WIND GUST OF 33 MPH RECORDED
ON THE 28TH.

9 COOLING DEGREE DAYS WERE RECORDED AT LONDON LAST MONTH...WHICH
IS 13 COOLING DEGREE DAYS BELOW NORMAL. THE SEASONAL COOLING DEGREE
DAY TOTAL IS NOW 1110...WHICH IS 12 COOLING DEGREE DAYS ABOVE
NORMAL. THERE WERE 325 HEATING DEGREE DAYS RECORDED AT THE LONDON
CORBIN AIRPORT IN OCTOBER 2006...WHICH IS 37 HEATING DEGREE DAYS
ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE MONTH. THE SEASONAL HEATING DEGREE DAY TOTAL IS
NOW 404...WHICH IS 66 HEATING DEGREE DAYS ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE
SEASON.

WEATHER RECORDS AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE NEAR JACKSON
KENTUCKY DATE BACK TO JANUARY 1ST 1981...WHILE CLIMATE RECORDS FOR
THE LONDON CORBIN AIRPORT BEGAN ON THE 11TH OF NOVEMBER 1954.

Please see the latest Monthly Climate Summary (SDFCLMJKL) for more information and statistics.