I can't remember a more bizarre October.  When this month started, the northeast was on it's nicest stretch of weather all summer.  California was in severe drought and facing a dangerous fire season.  South Florida was beginning a stretch of 13 days of temperatures above 90 degrees.

Suddenly two early season nor'easters hit the northeast bringing the earliest snowfall on record for the mountains of Pennsylvania and New York.   A cold front drives all the way to Cuba and the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico and drops Florida's temps from record highs, to record lows...a drop of around 25 degrees.   And the west coast gets pummeled by an early season storm dumping up to 10" of rain in parts of central California and winds of over 60 mph in the bay area.  This system was actually remnants of Typhoon Melor which hit Japan last week!

This week was certainly a game changer.  Much of northern California declared an end to Fire Season.  This means burn bans have been lifted in many National Forests and BLM areas.  The northeast went straight to winter.  And Autumn finally arrived in Florida.

Spring and Fall are the two wacky seasons in weather.  This fall is certainly off to a strong start.