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Northern New England and southern Quebec were hit by a early season snowstorm. Kilkenny, New Hampshire received 6 inches and Hatley, Quebec recorded 10 inches.

Central Park in New York City concluded its wettest month ever with 16.85 inches of rain.

An early season snowfall occurred over the Northern Plains with the greatest total (4 inches) falling in the New Ulm- Mankato area in Minnesota. Omaha, Nebraska had its first September snow in 70 years.

A 19 month drought in southern California came to a climax. The drought, which made brush and buildings bone dry, set up the worst fire conditions in California history as hot Santa Ana winds sent the mercury up to 97 degrees at San Diego and 105 degrees at Los Angeles. During the last week of September whole communities of interior San Diego county were consumed by fire. 500,000 acres were burned and the fires did 50 million dollars damage.

Hurricane Ginger was a storm with no place to go! -- since its formation on September 5th, it had been wandering around in the western and central Atlantic Ocean until landfall near Morehead City, North Carolina on this date. It never was a particularly strong hurricane at any point with winds peaking at 105 mph but it was a hurricane for 20 days and was tracked until October 5th when it finally dissipated after moving back out over the western Atlantic. Ginger was tracked as a tropical system for 31 days -- a new record for Atlantic storms. The 20 days as a hurricane set a new record as well.

An early season snowstorm covered much of the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota with 7 to 9 inches of snow. Some snow depths reported for the event, which ended on October 1st, were 7 inches at Babbitt and Aurora, 7.5 inches at Isabella, and 8.5 inches at Poplar Lake. Records are not kept for this area, but this is believed to be the most snow ever for this area in September.

The past month was the coldest September ever recorded in interior Alaska. Fairbanks averaged a frigid 31.7 degrees which was 13.2 degrees below normal and the first below freezing September ever. Beginning on the 9th and on every day for the rest of the month, a new cold record was set for either low minimums or low maximums, or both. On this date, the city plunged to 3 degrees to set a new all-time record low for September. Snowfall for the month totaled 24.4 inches which was more than three times the previous record for September. The late summer snows never melted. Plant foliage, still summer green, was frozen into place and week long power outages were widespread as whole trees bent over onto power lines due to the weight of the heavy snow. -Burlington, Vermont recorded .1 inches of snow on the date -- the first measurable September snow on record for the city.

Phoenix, Arizona had an average temperature for the month of 92.2 degrees -- the city's hottest September on record.