Enough Already!

by Nick Coons
Oct 22, 2003

A few weeks ago, I touted about the magical weekend in the middle of October when the weather changes suddenly. And, as Murphy's Law would have it, since I wrote about it, it decided not to happen yet this year. Okay, so I'm looking at the forecast for the next week, and it looks like it gets a little better. Of course, every time I look at the forecast, the temperature for the next few days goes up a few degrees. So it's still unpredictable at this moment.

So it's still hot. Can anyone remember last time the temperature was in the triple digits at the end of October? I can't, but I'm sure we can find some record of it written in petroglyphs on cave walls.

Over the past week or so, we've broken dozens of high temperature records across the state that have been set over the past century. From what I understand, a high pressure system is at fault. The high pressure system in this area has normally broken down by now, but this year it hasn't yet. Meteorologists are expecting this to happen by Thursday the 30th.

So temperatures below 100 degrees on Halloween are definitely a possibility.