Good evening! We cover a lot in this post. Here’s a super short “table of contents” for you:

1. October 2025 temperature and precipitation stats.
2. Highlights from October.
3. Our extended forecast.

October 2025

October 2025 brought to an end a string of 6 months with warmer than average temperatures. We ended pretty darn close to average, but officially 1.1 degrees below normal. This image shows how high temperatures panned out for the month.

A lot of slightly cooler than average days, but nothing super wild. This next graph shows the same data, but does a good job of showing just how close to normal many of those cool days were.

That graph does an excellent job at showing just how dramatically our temperatures drop in October. I like it!

Zooming out to see the big picture, we can see how this October was really warm across much of the country with the west coast and a small corner of the southeast being the exceptions.

This next image shows precipitation per day for Salem for the month of October. In the bottom right corner you will find the total for the month and percentage of normal. Remember you can always click on images for a larger view.

Highlights from the month

October 2025 goes down as a mostly uneventful month. Our coldest low occurred on the 30th with a temperature of 34°. The most interesting weather events took place on the 25th when we saw widespread wind gusts above 40mph (45 in Salem), lightning & thunder, and heavy rain showers. The coastline experienced high surf as well. Nearly a foot of snow fell at the ski resorts the following day.

Our forecast

Mon: Showers in the morning turning into a steady rain during the afternoon. A chilly high of only 53° with around a half an inch or rain. A great day for warm layers and a rain jacket!

Tue: Lots of mid/high level clouds with a few peaks of sunshine. Mainly dry. High of 57°.

Wed – Fri: Frequent periods of rain and breezy too. Wind gusts 30 – 40mph Wednesday and again late Thursday afternoon and evening. Over an inch of rain spread over the course of these three days. Potential for some heavier downpours and maybe another thunderstorm or two Wednesday afternoon.

Sat & Sun: We might finally have a dry weekend (both days)! I mean today was great, but the very first weekend in October is the last time we have seen a totally dry Saturday/Sunday combo. Highs in the upper 50s. Rain appears to make a return next Monday or Tuesday.

Have great first week of November!!