Three Weather Events Shock West as Fall Begins

Since the fall season officially started on Sept.23, three different bizarre weather events have already taken place in the United States.

The northwest region experienced an intense snowfall. The city of Montana got covered by a 9.7-inch-thick snow. Ray Greely of National Weather Service in Great Fall, Montana said that this has never happened before.

What is even crazier is it is not even October yet when the snowfall happened, on Sept. 28.

But Great Fall's case is milder when compared to Heart Butte area with 34 inches and Dupuyer area with 37 inches. The area of Browning is even worse, as it was blanketed with 4-foot-deep snow.

The east region had a polar opposite situation.

Pedram Javaherim, resident meteorologist at CNN, said before that the summer's heat would last until October, due to the temperature "running 10 to 15 degrees above average". True to his prediction, the East region really had an extended summer.

At least 12 cities in the region have experienced above 90 degrees Fahrenheit on the first day of October. The highest was recorded in Pensacola, Florida, with 96 degrees Fahrenheit, and Nashville, with 97 degrees Fahrenheit. Both of these states broke their previous record of the warmest day in October.

To complete the list, the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the north and east in the Atlantic region land fell on Sept. 28. According to the National Hurricane Center, with winds blowing at 259 km/h, Hurricane Lorenzo had strengthened into a Category 5 on its first day. 

Based on the Saffir–Simpson scale, a hurricane will fall into Category 5 if it is able to sustain wind speed of at least 252 km/h.

The first land that was hit by Hurricane Lorenzo was Western Azores, Portugal. Thankfully, due to the absence of enough warm water to sustain the hurricane, the strength of the typhoon declined swiftly. On the following day, it went down to Category 1 as it proceeded to other parts of Europe.

The impact of the storm was felt even in Ireland and some parts of the United Kingdom on the earlier days of October. Haley Brink, another CNN meteorologist, said that the UK rarely experiences a wind storm from a hurricane.

The storm officially dispersed five days later at the south of Germany.

The fall season actually meant autumnal equinox—it is the time when the day between the Northern and Southern hemisphere becomes equal. It was initially called "harvest season," since it is normally the time when pumpkin is good to harvest until it was changed to autumn in the 14th century. It was around 1600s when the term "fall" exists, a shortened version of "the fall of leaves," a phenomenon often associated with autumn.