{"id":300234,"date":"2026-10-05T17:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300234\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T17:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:44:19","slug":"octobers-with-the-most-precipitation-in-pennsylvania-since-1895-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300234\/","title":{"rendered":"Octobers with the most precipitation in Pennsylvania since 1895 \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791222259_663_pixel.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"display:none\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stacker.com\/pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stacker<\/a> compiled a ranking of the wettest Octobers in Pennsylvania since 1895 using data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/access\/monitoring\/climate-at-a-glance\/statewide\/time-series\/36\/tavg\/all\/5\/1895-2023?base_prd=true&amp;begbaseyear=1901&amp;endbaseyear=2000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Centers for Environmental Information<\/a>. Rankings are based on the highest total precipitation in each month. For each of the months listed below, we&#8217;ve included the total precipitation, state-wide highs and lows for the month, and the average state temperature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">#10. October 1929<br \/>&#8211; Total precipitation: 5.7 inches<br \/>&#8211; Average temperature: 48\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 58.6\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 37.4\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">#9. October 1990<br \/>&#8211; Total precipitation: 5.81 inches<br \/>&#8211; Average temperature: 53.5\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 64.4\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 42.7\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">#8. October 1937<br \/>&#8211; Total precipitation: 5.94 inches<br \/>&#8211; Average temperature: 48\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 57.6\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 38.3\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">#7. October 1959<br \/>&#8211; Total precipitation: 6.03 inches<br \/>&#8211; Average temperature: 52.8\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 62.8\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 42.8\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">#6. October 1927<br \/>&#8211; Total precipitation: 6.06 inches<br \/>&#8211; Average temperature: 53.2\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 65.1\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 41.4\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">#5. October 1955<br \/>&#8211; Total precipitation: 6.19 inches<br \/>&#8211; Average temperature: 52.2\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 63.5\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 40.9\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">#4. October 1995<br \/>&#8211; Total precipitation: 6.47 inches<br \/>&#8211; Average temperature: 53.8\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 65.8\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 41.9\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">#3. October 2005<br \/>&#8211; Total precipitation: 6.5 inches<br \/>&#8211; Average temperature: 52.5\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 61.3\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 43.7\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">#2. October 1917<br \/>&#8211; Total precipitation: 6.53 inches<br \/>&#8211; Average temperature: 44.9\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 55.4\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 34.4\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">#1. October 1976<br \/>&#8211; Total precipitation: 6.9 inches<br \/>&#8211; Average temperature: 45.6\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly high temperature: 55.2\u00b0F<br \/>&#8211; Monthly low temperature: 36\u00b0F<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stacker compiled a ranking of the wettest Octobers in Pennsylvania since 1895 using data from the National Centers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,43074],"class_list":["post-300234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-stacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}