At KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot, the official reporting station for the National Weather Service in Mountain Home, 2.35 inches of rain has been recorded as a strong cold front brought a line of storms across the area. Heavy rain began falling at 3:30 with temperatures dropping from 72 degrees to 63 degrees within an hour. The total rainfall for the month of October is 2.48 inches.
The average rainfall for October is 3.99 inches, and Thursday’s rainfall brings the area to over half of that average. Until this point, the only rainfall for the month was 0.13 inches on October 26. Before that date, no rain had fallen in nearly four weeks, since September 28. The 10th driest October on record for Mountain Home was in 1940 when only 0.8 inches of rain fell for the month.
Burn bans remain in place across the Twin Lakes area and much of the state, with forest fires burning south of Ava in Missouri and a small local fire breaking out in Buzzard Roost Forest on Wednesday morning. More rain is forecasted for early November, with rain expected to return to the area Saturday and continue through Tuesday of next week as residents welcome the sight and sound of much-needed moisture across the area.
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