Stacker’s NCEI-Based Lists Name Each State’s Wettest Octobers

Overview

• Local news outlets republished Stacker’s state-by-state rankings this week, with several sites posting the lists on Monday and Tuesday.
• The rankings are drawn from the National Centers for Environmental Information monthly totals and rank months by total precipitation only.
• Each entry also reports the statewide average, monthly high and monthly low temperatures so readers see both rainfall and temperature context.
• Stacker and the local pieces do not change or reanalyze NCEI data; they present descriptive historical benchmarks while noting broader NOAA reporting of record heat and a strengthening El Niño.
• The lists name specific single-month records such as Oregon’s October 1950 at 7.45 inches, Colorado’s October 1969 at 3.8 inches, and California’s October 1962 at 3.94 inches and can help planners and residents compare current fall rainfall to long-term extremes.