Clear skies and light wind allowed temperatures to drop to record low readings in Stockton and Modesto.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS STO wrote it up.
Clear skies and light wind allowed temperatures to drop to record low readings in Stockton and Modesto.
1 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
A new daily low temperature record of 37 degrees was set at Stockton Airport at 06:17PST, breaking the previous record of 42 degrees set in 1977.
A new daily low temperature record of 40 degrees was set at Modesto Airport at 06:22LST, breaking the previous record of 41 degrees set in 1981.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in California, October 2008
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 137285.