It was an unusually hot day for early October, with a maximum temperature of 23.1 °C, a minimum of 12.6 °C, and a daily mean of 16.9 °C. The day did not qualify as a hot day, which is defined as a maximum temperature of at least 30 °C, and there was no tropical night, meaning the temperature did fall below 20 °C overnight.

Looking at the last 30 days, the average air temperature was 18.42 °C, with a minimum of 5.8 °C and a maximum of 32.6 °C. During this period there were 14 summer days and 4 hot days, but no tropical nights. For the current season, the day of interest ranks 128th for maximum temperature and 120th for mean temperature among the last 365 days, placing it in the warmer third of the past year but not among the most extreme.

For all years in October, the hottest day on record at this station was 3 October 1985, with a maximum of 29.6 °C. The second hottest was 3 October 1929 at 29.2 °C, followed by 13 October 2023 at 28.7 °C, 5 October 1876 at 28.5 °C, and 7 October 2009 at 28.2 °C. These top five October days are listed in Table 1. The maximum temperature of 23.1 °C on 4 October 2026 ranks 146th among all October days on record, meaning it was warm but far from historic extremes for the month.