MONTHLY WEATHER DATA AND OBS - LAVALE MD							
OCTOBER 2007							
OBSERVER SCOTT LOHR
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	Special
Date	Max	Min	Equiv	Ice	Depth	Obs	Day's Weather Summary

1	71	49					Sunny, breezy
2	72	52					Sunny, breezy
3	76	54					Sunny, PM high clouds
4	76	54					Sunny, PM high clouds
5	75	61					Humid, cirrus clouds becoming heavy
6	80	61				F	Dense AM fog, sunny, humid
7	84	59					Sunny, warm
8	85	63				F	Dense AM fog, sunny, warm
9	83	63	 .17			T	Humid, increasing clouds, PM t-shower
10	68	56					Mostly sunny, gusty NW winds
11	54	51	   T				Cool, mostly cloudy, breezy
12	55	52	 .03				Light rain overnight, breezy, partly sunny
13	58	40					Partly sunny, breezy
14	64	40					Sunny, breezy
15	66	43					Sunny, breezy
16	67	49					Mostly sunny, calm
17	71	53					Partly sunny
18	74	54					Partly cloudy
19	67	60	 .30			T	Occasional showers with PM thunder
20	67	55					Sunny, less humid, gusty west winds.
21	72	43					Sunny
22	70	45					Sunny, few PM cirrus
23	70	64	 .20				Cloudy, PM light showers
24	60	52	1.15				Rain overnight heavy at times, falling temps
25	52	51					Overcast, calm
26	52	51	 .63				Rain during the afternoon
27	58	52	 .03				AM clouds, partly to mostly cloudy, windy
28	52	45					Mostly sunny
29	54	33					Sunny, AM frost, winds becoming SW
30	60	34					Sunny
31	62	34					Sunny

AVG/SUM	66.9	50.7	2.51	 0.0	 -
EXT	85	33	1.15	  -	 -
Date	8	29	24	  -	 -
*=Also occurred on earlier dates
							
Miscellaneous Stats
			
Mean Monthly Temperature:  58.8 F						
Year precipitation to date:  28.74"					
Season snowfall to date:  0.0"					
Number of days with:  
Fog 2
Thunder 2
					
MONTHLY SUMMARY	

Abundant sunshine and record warmth greeted the area in October.  This was the warmest
October in 16 years of records.  The very dry weather pattern continued until the 23rd,
when a couple of east coast storms dropped 2 inches of rain in a 4-day period.  The
season's first frost didn't occur until the 29th in another quiet weather month.

Additional notes/records

8: Record high min 63 F
19: Record high min 60 F
20: Record high min 55 F
23: Record high min 64 F

October 2007 set a new record for the warmest mean October minimum temperature on record
(50.7 F).  Overall, October 2007 was 3rd warmest ever with a mean temperature of 58.8 F.