A cold chill has set in as a warning for the winter ahead but this October has been one of the warmest, wettest and windiest on record in Ireland.
Met Eireann's latest monthly weather report revealed above average mean temperatures across the country, with up to 1.3 degrees higher than normal readings in Dublin and Carlow.
Phoenix Park recorded the highest temperature of the month on Friday, October 31st at 19.4 degrees.
Met Éireann meteorologist David Rogers said the day's temperature was six degrees higher than normal.
“Six degrees above normal temperatures on the last day of October is exceptional,” he said.
During a 30 year stretch, from 1981-2010, the maximum temperature recorded was 21 degrees.
Mr Rogers said the abnormally high temperatures for this time of the year was due to the wind direction coming from the subtropics.
The mean lowest temperatures for the month were also higher than normal with stations in the south and southeast reporting the highest night-time temperatures recorded in five years.
Dublin airport reported its sunniest day in eight years on October 11th, with 10 hours recorded.
Rainfall and wind
It was also one of the wettest October's in more than a decade for some places as Johnstown Castle in Wexford recorded its highest Monthly rainfall since 2002.
Mullingar had its wettest October in 12 years and Moore Park in Fermoy reported 156mm of rainfall, its highest rainfall in 10 years.
It was one of Ireland’s windiest Octobers in six to 10 years along coastal areas. Southern and western coastlines had wind speeds ranging from six knots (11 km/h).
Gale force winds were reported on 10 days of the month with the highest at 63 knots (117km/h). This was recorded on Roches Point on October 5th (the highest in 10 years), and Malin Head on October 21st (the highest in six years).
