on today's weather

We are getting what the TV predicted could be as much as an inch of rain today, the seventh of October. An inch of rain in Odtober? Back in the 14th Century when I was a kid and walked to school in 20-below weather through two feet of snow uphill both ways, I can't remember that we ever got rain in October. It seems to me that we had our first snowfall in early September and if we got any precipitation after that it was snow that then lasted, at least in the corners of the fences and the south side of gullies, into the spring. Or maybe it's just a bad memory.