MONTHLY WEATHER OBSERVATIONS
LAVALE MD
OCTOBER 2005
OBSERVERS DAVID DREWERY AND CHARLES ORLICK (DATA COMPILED BY NATE MULLINS)

Special Observations:  F=fog, T=thunder, H=hail,
S=sleet, G=glaze, DW=damaging winds
Observation time for this station is midnight.

	Temperature, °F	Precipitation, In.		
			Liquid	Solid	7am
	24-hour		Rain	Snow/	Snow
Date	Max	Min	Equiv	Ice	Depth	Special Obs.

1	79	40
2	78	61
3	80	54				F
4	81	50				F
5	82	57
6	75	60				F
7	73	64	2.15			F
8	64	62	 .30			F
9	64	54	   T
10	63	55	 .01
11	63	56	 .45
12	63	57	 .01			F
13	62	58	   T
14	64	54	   T
15	72	52
16	62	50
17	65	49
18	75	50
19	78	44
20	55	50	 .01
21	55	48	 .40
22	50	47	 .33			F
23	56	43
24	52	42	 .89
25	42	40	 .67
26	48	40	 .01
27	47	32
28	48	34
29	56	36	 .01
30	68	38
31	65	32

AVG/SUM	64.0	48.7	5.24	 0.0	 -  	  	 	
EXT	82	32	2.15	  -	 -
Date	5	31*	7	  -	 -
*=Also occurred on earlier dates

Miscellaneous Stats:

Mean Monthly Temperature:  56.4 F
Year precipitation to date:  33.91"
Season snowfall to date:  0.0"
Number of days with:
	Fog:  7 
	Ice Pellets:  0   	
	Glaze:  0 	
	Thunder:  0 	
	Hail:  0 	
	Damaging Winds:  0	

NOTES AND/OR SIGNIFICANT EVENTS:

1:  Light frost on roofs.  Cool low 40 F rebounding nicely to a warm high of 79 F and sunny all day.
2:  Sunny and warm.
3-4:  Early fog then sunny and warm with occasional light PM breezes.
5:  Cloudy early then partly sunny by 11am and warm with moderate breezes from the east.
6:  Cloudy with light fog early then partly cloudy and pleasant.  Increasing evening clouds.
TROPICAL SYSTEM BRINGS RECORD OCTOBER RAINFALL
7:  Cloudy and cooler with steady rain all day heavy at times during the morning and mountain fog.  A total
    of 2.15" fell which is a new single-day record for October.  The previous record was 2.05" on 10/20/95.
    The heavy rains fell from a cold front combined with the remnants of Tropical Storm Tammy.
8:  Light rain and fog overnight with rain continuing through the morning then tapering to drizzle another
    .30" fell storm total 2.45".  Extremely heavy rain fell to our east with some areas reporting over 12"
    from the storm!
9:  Cloudy with light E winds.  Some sun this evening aroun 5pm.
10: Cloudy and cool.
11: Rain began early this morning with a heavy shower around 6am.  Remained cloudy and cool with an
    occasional shower .45" fell.
12: Cloudy and cool again with occasional drizzle.  Clouds/fog on mountain tops.
13: Mostly cloudy and cool with light E winds.
14: Mostly cloudy and somewhat cool again.
15: Sunny, warmer and breezy with N winds gusting 20+ mph.
16: Partly cloudy, cooler and breezy with winds gusting 20+ mph.
17: Partly cloudy with lighter and variable winds.
18: Sunny and warmer with gusty winds developing after 10am.
19: Sunny and warm with light breezes.  Became mostly cloudy this evening.
20: Became cloudy and cool.  Light rain late this evening (.01").
21: Steady rain during predawn hours then showers continuing on and off all day .40" fell.
22: Periods of rain with low clouds and mountain fog.  Light SW winds this afternoon.
23: Mostly sunny and pleasant.
24: Steady rain through the day with falling temperatures and light breezes .89" rain fell by midnight.
HEAVY MOUNTAIN SNOW
25: Cold rain continued overnight and through the day gradually becoming lighter.  Another .67" fell.  An
    early season heavy snowstorm for the higher elevations with several inches on top of Piney Mountain
    and Frostburg just to the west.  11 inches was measured in Finzel near the top of Big Savage Mountain.
26: Cloudy early then variable clouds, breezy and cool with a couple of brief showers around 11am.
27: AM frost and freeze (first freeze of season).  Partly cloudy and continued cool.
28: Cloudy early then partly sunny after 11am and cool.
29: Brief pre-dawn shower.  Partly cloudy, milder and becoming breezy.
30: Sunny and mild after cool AM.
31: Clear with heavy frost overnight.  Sunny and mild again today.

SUMMARY:

October 2005 was warmer and wetter than normal.  Four significant storm systems brought much-needed rain to
the area.  The most notable storm events were on the 7th-8th when the remnants of TS Tammy and a slow-moving
front dropped 2.45" of rain, and on the 24th-25th when a low over Ohio and moisture from tropical systems
Wilma and Alpha combined for a cold soaking rain and an early season heavy mountain snowfall.  The first week
was summer-like with highs near 80.  Temperatures remained quite mild through the first three weeks, before
temperatures finally began to feel like fall.  All of the month's coldest readings occurred in the final week.

Additional notes/records

7: Daily record rainfall 2.15" fell.  Also a record high min of 64 F today.
8: Record high min 62 F.  Was eclipsed in 2007 with a reading of 63 F.
25: Record low max 42 F

October 2005 ranked 4th warmest for mean minimum temperature at 48.7 F.