So, in the Reporter’s first edition of this month, I wrote an editorial piece about Glorious October at Lakeside. Then Mother Nature and her Niño went out, broke unwritten rules and made a fool out of me. 

A lot of what I wrote has turned out to be fiction rather than fact. No one familiar with fall weather in this area expects cloudy days and rainy nights to be the October norm. We expect it is time to start storing away our umbrellas and rain gear for regular use until next summer. We don't anticipate bundling up in sweaters and jackets frequently, or piling extra blankets on our beds quite so soon before the cooler winter months.

The most embarrassing paragraph in my October weather review concerned normal conditions out on the Pacific coast.

“Barring any late tropical storms in the Pacific, October is also a great month for R&R on the Jalisco-Nayarit Coast. The weather is normally temperate, low in humidity, and sea waters feel bathwater comfy,”  I wrote with confidence.  Well, damned if the 2026 Super El Niño weather phenomenon didn’t suddenly kick into high gear, triggering a parade of hurricane storms that hit much of the entire Mexican Pacific coast.

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