Interesting, those Cook polls that were released today were actually taken September 19-25th. It seems like we've gotten about 1-2% movement in the last week towards Trump, so those polls overall are pretty close to the mean.
Digging into these senate races, they are tightening exactly how I thought they would. The MI, WI, and PA senate races are going to be tight.
While mighty rare (only 6 times since 1893) the first measurable snow can occur in October here in Chester County PA. The last occurrence was in 2011 and was also the largest October snowstorm in county history. It was elevation driven with between 5" to 9" of snow falling across the stations over 550 ft ASL. Of note the October snow in 1972 in some areas of the county would for the most part be the only snow of the winter season. In fact at Coatesville that was the only winter that no measurable snow was recorded.
Not as dense more like a heavy haze but it was sunny over my head this morning. Not so much right at the beach or to the south of me.
still no actual offshore flow to wipe the Marine layer out.