October 2024 Review

It's time for our big look back at Edmonton weather for a pretty quiet October 2024.

October 2024's High of 11.5°C ends up a little above average, as our 66th warmest on record. That's just ahead of 2023, just a bit below 2021, and well below 2022's 15.5°C. The average Low of 1.8°C was the 11th warmest.

October, along with April, is one of the rare months where our average High temperatures haven't increased much over the past century. A month like January is waaaay up, and July is up a bit, but April and October are pretty flat. The Lows are all up, though.



High Temperatures

October's Highs were pretty unremarkable. We had a few pretty warm days around the 7th, but the rest of the month was mostly just a bit above average. Overall we had 19 Highs above average, and 12 below.

On average October has 2 days reach 20°C, and 2024 was right on average with 2. The warmest was 23°C on the 7th. October averages 2 Highs below freezing, and 2024 had none. The coldest was 0.4°C on Halloween.



Hot Days

We've probably seen the final 20°C day of 2024, for a total of 97. That's around average, but well below 121 in 2023 and 119 in 2022. For 30°C Highs 2024 was #2 with 16, behind 2021's record of 17.



Low Temperatures

October 2024's Lows were mostly above average, but none were close to records. Overall 25 were above average and 6 were below.

As we get further into October the chance of freezing Lows increases. 2024's first was on the 12th, and we had 9 overall. That's below October's average of 13. We had no Lows below -5°C, when the average is 3.



First Frost of Fall

October 12th was the first frost for both Blatchford & Stony Plain. Their averages are September 29th and 25th respectively. It was Stony Plain's 2nd latest on record, and Blatchford's 6th. Recently 2022 & 2023 had the records, on October 23rd & 22nd.

October 12th is the first fall frost for both Blatchford & Stony Plain. The airport's was back on September 21st, which was about 2 weeks later than its average. Campsie (100km NW) was September 9th, which was about a week early.



Warm & Cold Months

October's average High of 11.5 was 0.4°C warmer than the 20th century average, so here it's a little orange bubble. The Low of 1.8°C was 2.3°C warmer, and gets a medium bubble.



Across Canada

October 2024 was fairly warm across the country. Victoria's average High was right on their 20th century average, but every other city here was above average, with Regina at the top at 3.6°C above their October average.



Precipitation

In October Edmonton averages 19mm of precipitation. In 2024 the airport got 12mm, while Stony Plain was down at 4mm and Blatchford got a whopping 2mm.

By the end of October we average 402mm of precipitation. In 2024 the local stations are well below that, because of the dry July. The airport's 332mm is the highest, followed by 317mm at Blatchford, with the rest below that.

October 2024 was a pretty quiet month for storms, but so were 2023 & 2022.

For total precipitation for the year so far St. John's is now in the lead with nearly 1200mm. Toronto has flattened out after a wet summer, but their 1,041mm is still their most on record for January-October.

For big October storms: 

• Vancouver had 67.1mm on the 19th, and 130.1mm from the 18-20th.
• Victoria got 41mm on the 19th
• St. John's and Charlottetown had ~35mm days

November

For November, we average around 18 Highs above 0°C, but we also start seeing lows of -10°C or -15°C. -20°C even shows up sometimes, like in 2022, and 2010-2015. 2014 got down to -29.8°C.