Last month was one of the warmest Octobers on record in Massachusetts, and one local meteorologist isn't surprised.

Meteorologist Zach Green says it’s a continuation of the summer weather pattern, which was one of the warmest and wettest on record. He says in Worcester, it never got below 32 degrees or above 76 degrees, which contributed to it being the state’s second-warmest October ever.

Green says this pattern was mostly because of the warm water off of the east coast of the U.S. He says warmer and wetter weather in the northeast is one of the predicted impacts of climate change.

"We would expect this wet pattern to continue going forward. What it really does is keep the minimum temperatures from going to low," Green said. "If it's raining out, temperatures aren't going to get too warm; you're not going to get into the 80s or anything like that, but you're also not going to cool down too much at night, so the precipitation really lends to warmer overnight temperatures."

Green says he expects above-average temperatures to continue into winter, but says that doesn't mean we won't have snow and cold.