October Weather

October Weather. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.

October seems to be starting off with a cool, wet pattern but how is the rest of the month shaping up? Meteorologist Tim Creek has a look.

CREEK: As we head into October, what we’re going to see is conditions drop back to near normal. And compared to what we saw in September it’s going to be a great difference. The overall weather pattern is definitely changing. We should see a situation where we have a strong westerly jet stream into the northwest much of the time and that means basically that we’re going to see storms slide through the area maybe twice - maybe three times a week at times giving us some unsettled weather conditions. Now having said that I really expect that for the most part we are going to see temperatures right around average for this time of the year and throughout much of central Washington from the Okanagan down to the Tri-Cities we’re looking at temperatures that are primarily low and mid 60’s for highs. So for the most part our temperatures are going to be more into the 60’s, cooler days into the 50’s. We’re going to have near normal precipitation but there will be a relatively frequent threat of shower activity. I do see a three or four day stretch of stability in the middle of the month where high pressure builds in but that’s about it. Otherwise again I don’t see anything too significant in terms of below average temperatures or above average precipitation but I think that it should be near normal and I think that the real change is that it’s going to be much different than what we saw in September. Climatology really drops off this time of the year in fact October is a good 10 degrees cooler on average than September. So all in all a pretty typical month of October is expected but compared to what we have seen in the last month of so it is definitely going to be much more active, cooler and wetter.

That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.