It was like being in an oven for more than a month

LOS ANGELES >> October 2015 will go down as the hottest October ever in most of Southern California, as the average high temperature was 4 degrees hotter than the previous hottest October.

A large pool of unusually-warm water off the Pacific Coast, called “the Blob” by climatologists, brought the warmest October nights to almost every nook and cranny of Southern California, a National Weather Service meteorologist said. MORE