A warmer-than-normal weather pattern is setting up in the Midwest as we get set to usher in October.

Ed Shimon at the National Weather Service in Lincoln indicates the outlooks show a warmer-than-normal trend heading into October and then through October. 

September is going to close out a little warmer than normal. Shimon indicates the September start was unusually cool and became warmer - particularly last week, when he says we reached the hottest air temperatures.

As we move through the fall, daylight becomes less and less. Shimon points out that we lose about an hour of daylight moving through October.