Officially, the fall had begun on September 23. However, at the beginning of this season, many across the United States has yet not felt much like fall. Now, we will take you through the three wild weather events that marked the start of the season.
1. Heavy snowfall in the Northwest
As per the weathermen, heavy snowfall has never happened across this region in September. But this September had been different. Talking about the records for this year, the city recorded 9.7 inches of snowfall on September 28 which is the highest one-day September snow amount in Great Falls history. With this, many areas in Montana recorded a higher amount of snow. Places like Dupuyer got 37 inches and Heart Butte 34 inches of snow during this period. On the same day, 1.9 inches of snow broke the monthly record for the month of September, set in 1926 of 1.4 inches.
In 1934, the history was made in Missoula when the city broke its September snowfall by recording 1.5 inches.
2. Heatwave in the East
At the end of August and in early September, the temperatures were settling 10 and 15 degrees above the average. And as predicted by the weathermen, the summer heat would last into October. As correctly predicted by our weathermen, Nashville reached 97 degrees on October 1, by making it one of the warmest days for the month of October in this city's history. Mercury in Florida too reached 96 degrees on the same day, shattering the higher temperature record for October. Places like Indianapolis, Asheville, North Carolina and Charleston, West Virginia were the cities that recorded the temperatures around 90 degrees on the first day of this month.
The region is still recording the high temperatures, but we expect these temperatures to dissipate across the country in the coming days.
3. A Category 5 hurricane bringing winds and rains
The former Hurricane namely Lorenzo strengthened into a category 5 storm on September 28, before weakening into category 3 the next day. According to Skymet, Hurricane Lorenzo is the strongest hurricane recorded so far in the North and East in the Atlantic during the season. This week, this storm has brought squally winds and rains to places like Ireland and in the some parts of the United Kingdom, as the storm headed to the neighbouring states. This was the rarest weather event for the United Kingdom.
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