(Atlantic, Iowa – KJAN) – The month of September, here in Atlantic, was both warmer and cooler than average, and certainly drier than it should have been. Weather records compiled at KJAN (the OFFICIAL National Weather Service data site for Atlantic) show we were a little more than 2-degrees warmer than the average of 77, departing with an average of 79.3 degrees. On the Low side, we came in just four-tenths of an inch cooler, at 49.6-degrees. Rainfall, typically 3.45-inches in September, came in at just 1.07-inches for the month.

Here’s what the stats normally are for October:

• Avg. High, 64.1
• Avg. Low, 39.0
• Avg. Precipitation, 2.76 inches.