Michael made landfall as a catastrophic, unprecedented Florida Panhandle Category 4 hurricane during the early-afternoon hours of Oct. 10.
Intensifying right up until landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, Hurricane Michael had 155-mph sustained winds and a minimum central pressure of 919 millibars.
"Measurable snowfall is pretty rare during the month of October in K.C.; only having occurred 7 times since records began," the National Weather Service office in Kansas City, Missouri, tweeted Oct. 15 after 0.2 inches of snow was measured the previous day, marking the eighth time the city had seen measurable snow in October.
This Oct. 14 was the earliest measurable snow, defined as at least 0.1 inches, in Kansas City, breaking the 120-year-old record from Oct. 17, 1898, when 3.3 inches accumulated.
Many cities in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast recorded one of their warmest Oct. 1-15 periods on record, according to preliminary data compiled by the Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC).
October's first half was the warmest such period on record in Charleston, South Carolina; Columbia, South Carolina; Macon, Georgia; and Melbourne, Florida.
Washington D.C. was tied for the second-warmest first half of October. Richmond, Virginia, saw its second-warmest Oct. 1-15 period, as did Wilmington, North Carolina, Atlanta and Tampa, Florida.
Several other locations in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast observed a top-five-warmest first half of October.
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