It is possible because we live in Oklahoma where the weird and wonderfully wacky weather can confuse the plants just as much as it confuses us at times.

Normally, strawberries form little fruit buds in late fall that will remain on the plants and become strawberries in spring. It sounds like your buds have formed. If they are enlarging and growing, then the most likely explanation is that the cooler than average/rainier than average weather in September and October 'told' the plants it was fall. I'm assuming you had a few cold nights that might have made the plants 'think' winter had arrived. Then, November arrived and it has been warmer and drier than average (at least here in our county it has been running about 10 degrees above average), so the plants 'think' winter is over and spring has arrived, so they are making strawberries. That is one possibility and it is the most likely one given the weather we've observed.

Sometimes, during a very hot and dry summer, berries and even fruit trees go dormant in the heat and may even drop their leaves. Then, when cooler/rainier weather arrives in the fall and breaks the drought, the plants 'think' it is spring, break dormancy and begin blooming and forming fruit. That happens a lot here with my peach and plum trees. Most fruit-bearing plants don't really recognize 'winter' or 'summer' per se, so it doesn't matter to them if they have gone into dormancy because of severe drought or because of cold weather. Whenever they break dormancy, regardless of its cause, they tend to leaf out and bloom or both. With fruit trees, that kind of fall blooming doesn't prevent them from blooming again in the spring and setting fruit. I am not sure how it will affect your strawberries.

I've had fruit trees in bloom this fall that normally bloom in March. Jay and some others (Bob, I think, was one of them) have had asparagus put up new shoots. Blame it all on the weather.

Dawn

The other possibility with your strawberries is that they are one of the everblooming types but if so you should have seen berries intermittently all summer. I have a few of those, only because the grandkids love to look for strawberries and it's a treat that they can have all summer with the everbearing plants.

But if they just now have put on again, it is as Dawn says that the "coolest October on record" has them confused.

I do have henbit that is about to bloom now, but I like it so I haven't even mowed it down or anything. If the henbit manages to bloom before it freezes this week or next, I'm going to be confused and think it is February or March. I am not sure I've ever seen henbit sprout and bloom in the fall either. It sure has been a crazy autumn.