As September comes to a close, all eyes turn to October and with it, hope for our first “real cold front.”

By that, I mean a front strong enough to keep daytime highs in the 70s for at least three days in a row. That kind of front almost always arrives in October, though there are exceptions. For example, in 2020, it showed up early, on September 20.

Here’s a look back at when the first real cold front arrived over the past five years.

Last year really stood out; our first real cold front didn’t arrive until mid-November. Because we missed a strong October front, October 2024 ended up as the third-warmest October on record.

I get emails from viewers saying, “If it doesn’t get cold, you can’t call it a cold front.” If we are being meteorologically accurate, a cold front is simply an a

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