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A chronicle of American weather and climate  ·  Wednesday, 16 September 2026

Weather Trader Tropics MILEPOST 753

October 1, 2025 Wednesday Weather

Ensemble systems favor developing a tropical wave in the MDR into next week

What the month did

October 2025 was the 7th-warmest October in the 131-year national record (1895–2025), at 57.0°F against a 1991–2020 normal of 54.5°F (+2.4°F).

October 2025 was the 56th-wettest October in the 131-year national record (1895–2025), at 2.3in against a 1991–2020 normal of 2.5in (-0.2in).

NOAA/NCEI Climate at a Glance, contiguous United States. This is the observed record for the month, not a score of anything said in this piece — the forecast ledger begins 2026-08-17 and cannot reach earlier posts.

Hurricane Imelda nearing Bermuda — heading away from the East Coast with a strong trough digging into the Northeast — all to be replaced soon enough by central U.S. ridging. Mid-level dry air extends along 30°N from Los Angeles to Houston and then into South Florida. Easterly flow off of the Atlantic will begin to filter moisture into Florida — and create a large precipitable maximum over the Gulf of Mexico.

My favorite parameter shows tropical moisture billowing out of the Gulf of Mexico and across Florida as a stationary boundary lifts north.

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