Yall should dig a little deeper than the sensationalized BS they call weather forecasting now days. October has ALWAYS been traditionally DRY and quite warm. As a logger, I pay attention to weather trends over SEVERAL years and Sept and Oct ARE normally the dryest months of the year.
Now come November, once it starts raining, it will last for 3 months typically until Feb, and we usually get some dry days then.
Forecasting the weather has become like everything else associated with the media, they blow smoke up your arse to make themselves seem like they are important.
El-nino, ElPaso, Eltaco, its all a ploy to keep you watching them! If I planned my work by the "meteorlogists" I would have went broke years ago. The old saying goes: "a man will lose a crop waiting on the weatherman to be right".