...OCTOBER HIGHLIGHTS...
...19TH DRIEST OCTOBER ON RECORD...
...17TH WARMEST OCTOBER ON RECORD...

NORMALLY OCTOBER IS A MONTH WHERE TUCSONANS BID FAREWELL TO A HOT
SUMMER AND WELCOME IN FALL TYPE TEMPERATURES. HOWEVER...HIGH PRESSURE
ALOFT WAS IN CONTROL OF THE WEATHER FOR MOST OF THE MONTH...WHICH
RESULTED IN MUCH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. ON AVERAGE...OCTOBER
WOULD RECORD NINE DAYS WITH HIGHS TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S. IN 2007
THERE WERE FOURTEEN SUCH DAYS. A FEW STORM SYSTEMS DID MOVE THROUGH
THE AREA....BRINGING COOLER TEMPERATURES AND BREEZY TO WINDY
CONDITIONS. THE ONLY RAINFALL FOR THE MONTH OCCURRED ON THE 1ST AND
2ND.

THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE OF 72.9 DEGREES IS JUST UNDER TWO AND
A HALF DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 17TH WARMEST OCTOBER ON
RECORD. TEMPERATURES EXTREMES FOR THE MONTH RANGED FROM A HIGH OF 96
DEGREES ON THE 9TH AND 10TH TO A LOW OF 47 DEGREES ON THE 7TH.

OCTOBER AVERAGE TEMPERATURE SINCE 1998...
1998 ..... 70.7     2003 ..... 75.4
1999 ..... 74.7     2004 ..... 69.3
2000 ..... 68.2     2005 ..... 72.7
2001 ..... 73.2     2006 ..... 70.2
2002 ..... 69.5     2007 ..... 72.9
1971-2000 NORMAL ... 70.5
TEN YEAR AVERAGE ... 71.7

OCTOBER RAINFALL WAS ONCE AGAIN BELOW NORMAL THUS MAKING IT THE 6TH
STRAIGHT OCTOBER AND 16TH OF THE LAST 18 OCTOBERS TO BE BELOW NORMAL.
THE LAST OCCURRENCE OF ABOVE NORMAL OCTOBER RAINFALL WAS IN 2000 WHEN
A RECORD TIEING 4.98 INCHES WAS RECORDED. RAINFALL TOTALS ACROSS THE
METRO AREA WERE LESS THAN A QUARTER OF AN INCH WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS
NEAR A HALF AN INCH NEAR THE CATALINA MOUNTAINS. OFFICIALLY THE
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TWO-HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH /0.02"/. THIS RANKS
AS THE 19TH DRIEST OCTOBER ON RECORD (TIED WITH 1954).

OCTOBER RAINFALL TOTALS SINCE 1998...
1998 ..... 0.24"     2003 ..... 0.38"
1999 ..... TRACE     2004 ..... 0.62"
2000 ..... 4.98"     2005 ..... 0.31"
2001 ..... 0.69"     2006 ..... 0.27"
2002 ..... 0.50"     2007 ..... 0.02"
1971-2000 NORMAL ... 1.21"
TEN YEAR AVERAGE ... 0.80"

...OCTOBER 2007 STATS...       MONTH     NORMAL     DEPARTURE
AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE        87.3      84.0        + 3.3
AVERAGE LOW  TEMPERATURE        58.4      57.0        + 1.4
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE             72.9      70.5        + 2.4
RAINFALL                        0.02"     1.21"      - 1.19"

2007 CURRENTLY RANKS AS THE 9TH WARMEST YEAR (TIED WITH 1993/1954) ON
RECORD WITH AN AVERAGE YEARLY TEMPERATURE OF 73.1 DEGREES. RAINFALL
FOR THE YEAR TO DATE IS WELL BELOW NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 36TH
DRIEST ON RECORD.

YEARLY RAINFALL TOTALS THROUGH OCTOBER 31ST SINCE 1998...
1998 ..... 12.50"     2002 .....  8.86"
1999 .....  9.68"     2003 .....  6.45"
2000 ..... 11.07"     2004 .....  9.56"
2001 .....  7.16"     2005 ..... 11.19"
2002 .....  6.96"     2006 .....  8.22"
1971-2000 NORMAL ... 10.47"
TEN YEAR AVERAGE ...  9.17" OR A 13" DEFICIT.

...2007 STATS THRU OCTOBER...   YEAR     NORMAL     DEPARTURE
AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE        86.8      85.4        + 1.4
AVERAGE LOW  TEMPERATURE        59.4      57.4        + 2.0
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE             73.1      71.4        + 1.7
HIGHS OF 100 DEGREES OR BETTER    65        55        +  10
RAINFALL                        8.22"    10.47"      - 2.25"

...LOOKING AHEAD INTO NOVEMBER...
THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER FORECASTS THAT THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER
WILL HAVE ENHANCED PROBABILITIES FOR ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND
BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION.

AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE ......... 72.3 DEGREES
AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE........... 45.1 DEGREES
AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE ...... 58.7 DEGREES
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE ..........   94 DEGREES ON NOVEMBER 1 1924
RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE ...........   19 DEGREES ON NOVEMBER 19 1921
WARMEST NOVEMBER (AVG) ........... 65.4 DEGREES IN 1999
COLDEST NOVEMBER (AVG) ........... 51.0 DEGREES IN 1911
NORMAL RAINFALL .................. 0.67 INCHES
WETTEST NOVEMBER DAY ............. 2.09 INCHES ON NOVEMBER 22 1931
WETTEST NOVEMBER ................. 4.61 INCHES IN 1905
DRIEST NOVEMBER .................. 0.00 INCHES IN 1999
 	                                (LAST OF 13 OCCURRENCES)
RECORD NOVEMBER SNOWFALL ......... 6.4 INCHES IN 1958 (16TH)

THE NUMBER OF DAYLIGHT HOURS WILL DECREASE FROM 10 HOURS 54 MINUTES
ON THE 1ST TO 10 HOURS 13 MINUTES ON THE 30TH...A LOSS OF 41 MINUTES.

GLUECK