Two daily weather records were broken during the month of October. The first was for a low temperature, and the second was for rainfaill.
At KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot, the official reporting station in Mountain Home for the National Weather Service, the low reached 26 degrees on the morning of Oct. 19. This breaks the old record of 28 degrees set in 1989.
The average low for the month was 45.9 degrees. The average high was 72.8. The highest temperature for the month was 82 recorded on Oct. 7, 11, 15 and 22.
On the morning of Oct. 25, 2.71 inches of rain were recorded, breaking an 86-year-old record. The previous record of an even two inches was set in 1936.
A total of 5.34 inches of rain was recorded in October. The average rainfall for the month is 3.99 inches, meaning we were 1.35 inches below normal.
Year-to-date, Mountain Home continues to run above normal for precipitation. A total of 46.95 inches of rain has fallen this year. That is 4.66 inches above the normal rainfall through the first 10 months of the year, which is 42.29 inches.
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