1928: The temperature reached 90 degrees at Minneapolis, Minnesota their latest such reading on record.

1982: October 8th through October 10th, 1982 record amounts of snow piled up in the northern Black Hills. Not only was the storm a record breaker because it came so early in the season, it was a record snowfall producer for anytime of year. Amounts of three to six feet were common across the northern hills. On October 9th, 1982 thirty-two inches of snow buried Lead. The thirty-two inches that day is the most on record for a 24 hour period in South Dakota. Lead's three day storm total of 55.3 inches is the largest single storm total on record in South Dakota.

1804: A "snow hurricane" occurred, dumping heavy snow across much of the Northeast, from a foot in the Berkshires of Connecticut to three feet in the Green Mountains in Vermont.

1925: Weekend football games were played in deep snow across New England as up to two feet of snow fell in northern Vermont and New Hampshire.