U.S. National Overview October 2006 National Climatic Data Center Updated 6 November 2006

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National Overview:

October

* 52nd coolest October on record (1895-2006). * All regions near to or below normal temperature (first time since February 2003 with no regions above average temperature). * Only 2 states above normal temperatures in October: New Hampshire and Texas.

* 12th wettest October for U.S. * Fourth wettest October on record for the Northeast Region. * Maine ranked 2nd wettest October. * Regionally, wet in Southwest, South, Central, Southeast and Northeast

For information on local temperature and precipitation records during the month, please visit NCDC's Extremes page.

* Drought conditions persisted in the South and northern Plains. October rainfall helped to eliminate the extreme drought which was located in parts of northeast Texas. For more information on drought during October, please visit the U.S. Drought page.

* No tropical storms or hurricanes developed in the Atlantic Basin during October.

* In the East North Pacific Basin, Tropical Storms Norman and Oliva formed. Hurricane Paul was a strong category 2 storm which made landfall in Mexico as a tropical depression.

* El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions remained in a warm phase (El Niño) in the tropical Pacific basin as SSTs in the Equatorial Pacific continued to warm and expand throughout October. As of the beginning of November, SST anomalies are between 1.0°C and 1.2°C in all of the Niño regions. El Niño conditions are expected to intensify over the next several months. For more information on ENSO conditions, please visit the NCDC ENSO Monitoring page and the latest NOAA ENSO Advisory.

For additional details, see the Monthly and Seasonal Highlights section below and visit the October Climate Summary page. For details and graphics on weather events across the U.S. and the globe please visit NCDC's Global Hazards page.

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I would like to read from a beliver in the "global warming" religion explain this report line by line. Is it a good report to them or is it a bad report for them? I can't tell.

I am sure there are some of you out there. Lets hear from you.

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Try this page to start.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2006/oct/currentmonth.html#trU_mo

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It doesn't mean much either way. It's only one month. That said, overall, the climate has not warmed the way it was predicted to by climate models run 10 or 20 years ago. Thus far, the variation in various temperature averages has not exceeded innate levels of past variation. Far too early to conclude how accurate, if at all, the global warming theories are.