Heavy Rainfall for the Mid-Atlantic; Heat and Wildfire Concerns for the West

Slow moving showers and thunderstorms may result in flash flooding for portions of the mid-Atlantic region today into tonight. Meanwhile, excessive heat will continue to build across the West through Tuesday. Heat Advisories and Extreme Heat Warnings are in effect. Fire Weather concerns continue for the interior Northwest with dry and breezy conditions. Watching the tropics across the Southeast. Read More >

High and Low Temperature Percentiles for Paducah, KY (1938-2014)

October

Min = Lowest temperature recorded during that time period

10th Percentile = 10% chance that temperatures will fall below this threshold for that time period. Anything below the 10th percentile is considered unseasonably cool. Another way to view it is that 90% of the time temperatures will be warmer than the specified temperature.

Median = Basically the average temperature; there is an equal probability of temperatures falling above or below this value.

90th Percentile = 10% chance that temperatures will fall above this threshold for that time period. Anything above the 90th percentile is considered unseasonably warm. Another way to view it is that 90% of the time temperatures will be cooler than the specified temperature.

Max = Highest temperature recorded during that time period

Temperatures between the 25th and 75th percentile are most common for that time period.

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Climatology - Paducah, KY - October Temperature Percentiles