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Heavy Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorm Threats for the Plains and Southeast

A frontal boundary extending from the western High Plains to the Southeast will focus additional showers and thunderstorms this weekend. Some of these storms may become severe, alongside frequent lightning, and isolated instances of flash flooding. Meanwhile dry conditions will continue for the Great Basin where fire weather concerns linger. For the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, seasonable weather. Read More >

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Waco - Halloween Climatology

October 31

Temperature
  • Normal maximum: 75°F
  • Normal minimum: 51°F
  • Number of freezes: 3
  • Number of days with maximum:
         100°F or more: 0 
         32°F or less: 0
Highest Maximum
Rank Temperature Year
1 90 1977
2
(tie)
89 2003
89 1938
4
(tie)
88 1982
88 1909
Lowest Minimum
Rank Temperature Year
1 25 1993
2 29 1917
3 30 2019
4 34 1913
5
(tie)
36 1991
36 1989
36 1980

 

Lowest Maximum
Rank Temperature Year
1 46 1991
2 51 1925
3 52 2019
4
(tie)
53 1993
53 1923
Highest Minimum
Rank Temperature Year
1
(tie)
72 2003
72 1982
72 1977
4 71 1946
5
(tie)
70 2000
70 1935
 
Precipitation
  • Number of occurrences with any precipitation: 30
  • Number of occurrences with measurable precipitation: 21
  • Average amount when precipitation occurred: 0.38"
  • Chance of measurable precipitation: 17%
  • Number of occurrences of:
         thunder: 10
         snow: 0 
         sleet (ice pellets): 0 
         freezing rain/freezing drizzle (glaze): 0 
         fog: 30
Wettest
Rank Precipitation Year
1 2.68 1974
2 1.52 2015
3 0.87 2004
4 0.82 1903
5 0.75 1991