It's almost Halloween! After a gloomy, cool, and wet day like today, you may be worried about what Halloween is going to look like on Friday. We're diving into this year's Halloween forecast at the end of this blog. What I can tell you first is that we will not be having a historical Halloween in terms of weather. Meaning, we won't be seeing the hottest, coldest, or wettest ever. Speaking of...what do you think the weather extremes are in our area for the holiday? 

It's that one day a year again where kids can eat as much candy in one night as they want (or allowed to). Whether or not you have a child trick or treating this year, or you are trick or treating yourself, we have all been outside and done it at one point during our lives. Sometimes that comes with a coat over our costumes, other times we sweat ourselves out in them. Do you remember any specific crazy Halloween weather here? Let's take a dive into the past...

• Hottest Halloween in Louisville:
  • If you we're out trick or treating way back in 1950 in Louisville, you might remember this one. 73 years ago today Louisville reached a very steamy and warm 84 degrees for our high. Costumes that year we're definitely sweat through. 
• Coldest Halloween in Louisville:
  • Now, none of us were alive for this one, but way back in 1887, which is 136 years ago today, Louisville got down to a bone chilling 26 degrees for the high temperature.
• Wettest Halloween in Louisville:
  • We all wish for dry weather on Halloween so we can go out and get our candy without worry, but man oh man back in 1941 that definitely wasn't the case. Louisville received 1.68" of rainfall on Halloween alone.
• Snow On Halloween?
• Believe it or not, Louisville has gotten snow on Halloween more than once, and it might be more times than you think. Granted the most snow we've seen on Halloween in Louisville is only a trace, but this happened just a few years ago in 2019 & 2014. If you look a little further back this also happened in 1993, 1954, and in 1930.

 This Year's Halloween Forecast

Luckily we won't have to deal with any of those extremes for Halloween this year. If you're worried about the rain today lingering into Halloween, it shouldn't be much of (if any) problem this Friday!

The doom and gloom conditions this week will let up just in time for Halloween! By Friday, we have dried out (finally), and we should be able to get some sunshine during the afternoon on Friday as well! It'll be chilly, but we're not talking about heavy winter coats over the costumes this year. A jacket or light coat should suffice as temperatures fall into the upper 40s for trick or treat time for most of us. 

It'll be cooler than it normally is for this time of the year, but not so far off that it feels like it's Winter or just back in 2019 and 2014 when we had a trace of snow on the ground. 

The breeze from earlier in the day on Friday should taper off by then and we'll have some scattered clouds left over. Sunset will be at 6:44pm, but don't forget that on Sunday morning at 2 AM we move our clocks BACK an hour!