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CLIMATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
950 AM EST FRI DEC 01 2023

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...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE SEASON, FROM
9/1/2023 TO 11/30/2023...

CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1991 TO 2020
CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1897 TO 2023

WEATHER         OBSERVED          NORMAL  DEPART   LAST YEAR`S
                VALUE   DATE(S)   VALUE   FROM     VALUE
                                          NORMAL
..............................................................
TEMPERATURE (F)
RECORD
 HIGH            100   09/02/1953
                       09/01/1953
 LOW                   11/30/1958
                       11/25/1950
                       11/24/1950
HIGHEST           92   09/05         MM      MM       89
LOWEST            16   11/28         MM      MM       13
                       11/29
AVG. MAXIMUM    64.7               63.1     1.6     64.6
AVG. MINIMUM    43.3               43.0     0.3     41.9
MEAN            54.0               53.0     1.0
DAYS MAX >= 90     1                1.5    -0.5        0
DAYS MAX <= 32     2                1.6     0.4        4
DAYS MIN <= 32    20               19.1     0.9       21
DAYS MIN <= 0      0                0.0     0.0        0

PRECIPITATION (INCHES)
RECORD
 MAXIMUM       16.47   1992
 MINIMUM        2.89   1964
TOTALS          5.71               8.95   -3.24     5.60
DAILY AVG.      0.06               0.10   -0.04     0.06
DAYS >= .01       27               29.7    -2.7       31
DAYS >= .10       13               17.8    -4.8       14
DAYS >= .50        4                5.8    -1.8        3
DAYS >= 1.00       0                2.1    -2.1        1
GREATEST
 24 HR. TOTAL   1.20   09/26 TO 09/27

SNOWFALL (INCHES)
RECORDS
 TOTAL          14.1   1950
 24 HR TOTAL     1.9   11/12/2022 TO 11/12/2022
TOTALS           0.4                2.0    -1.6      4.2
SINCE 7/1        0.4                2.0    -1.6       MM
SNOWDEPTH AVG.     0                                  -1
DAYS >= TRACE      5                3.0     2.0        9
DAYS >= 1.0        0                0.5    -0.5        1
GREATEST
 SNOW DEPTH        0                                   1
 24 HR TOTAL     0.4   11/26 TO 11/26

DEGREE DAYS
HEATING TOTAL   1087               1187    -100     1135
 SINCE 7/1      1093               1197    -104       MM
COOLING TOTAL    110                 98      12       95
 SINCE 1/1       766                849     -83       MM
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WIND (MPH)
AVERAGE WIND SPEED              7.9
HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION    30/230    DATE  11/06
HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION    38/MM     DATE  11/06

SKY COVER
POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT)   MM
AVERAGE SKY COVER           0.58
NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR           21
NUMBER OF DAYS PC             43
NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY         27

AVERAGE RH (PERCENT)     71

WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH
THUNDERSTORM              3     MIXED PRECIP               1
HEAVY RAIN                4     RAIN                      12
LIGHT RAIN               39     FREEZING RAIN              0
LT FREEZING RAIN          0     HAIL                       0
HEAVY SNOW                0     SNOW                       0
LIGHT SNOW                5     SLEET                      0
FOG                      47     FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE      1
HAZE                      6

-  INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.
R  INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.
MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.
T  INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.


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NOTICEABLY DRY AND WARM FALL 2023

DROUGHT CONDITIONS WERE EXACERBATED IN SEPTEMBER BY A VERY DRY START
TO FALL. A WETTER OCTOBER HELPED TO EASE SOME DROUGHT CONCERNS,
BEFORE ABNORMALLY DRY CONDTIONS RETURNED TO THE REGION DURING A TOP
5 DRIEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD. THERE WERE NO DAYS THIS FALL WITH A
DAILY RAIN TOTAL OVER AN INCH; IN FACT, FORT WAYNE HAS NOT HAD A DAY
WHERE AN INCH OF RAIN OF MORE HAS FALLEN SINCE JULY 20! OVERALL,
PRECIPITATION TOTALLED 5.71", WHICH IS 3.24" BELOW NORMAL FOR FALL
IN FORT WAYNE AND IS THE 23RD DRIEST FALL ON RECORD.

VERY LITTLE SNOW WAS OBSERVED THIS YEAR; THE FIRST SNOWFALAKES OF
THE SEASON FELL ON HALLOWEEN AND ONLY ONE DAY IN NOVEMBER HAD
MEAUSRABLE SNOW. WITH A TOTAL OF 0.4", THIS IS 2.1" BELOW NORMAL AND
TIES FOR THE 29TH LEAST SNOWIEST FALL ON RECORD.

FALL 2023 FEATURED NORMAL MIDWEST TEMPERATURE SWINGS AND
FLUCTUATIONS. NO TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE SET. ALL IN ALL, THE
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 54.0 DEGREES. THIS IS 1.0 DEGREES ABOVE
NORMAL AND TIES FOR THE 36ND WARMEST FALL IN FORT WAYNE.

A MONTH-BY-MONTH SUMMARY IS BELOW.

...29TH DRIEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD RESULTS IN WORSENING DROUGHT...

RECALL THAT ONLY A TRACE OF RAIN HAD FALLEN AT FORT WAYNE FROM
AUGUST 18TH TO 31ST. THIS DRYNESS CONTINUED INTO SEPTEMBER AS
MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION WAS NOT RECORDED UNTIL THE 6TH (0.06
INCHES). AS A RESULT, DROUGHT CONDITIONS CAME BLAZING BACK TO THE
REGION ACCORDING TO THE US DROUGHT MONITOR. ON SEPTEMBER 5TH, JUST
OVER 65% OF THE FORECAST AREA WAS EXPERIENCING "ABNORMALLY DRY"
CONDITIONS, WHILE ABOUT 3% WAS DEEMED TO BE IN A "MODERATE DROUGHT".
BY SEPTEMBER 26H, 80% OF THE FORECAST AREA WAS EXPERIENCING
"MODERATE DROUGHT". LAWNS BECAME DORMANT. SOIL WAS VERY DRY AND
CRACKED, AND VERY LOW WATER LEVELS WERE NOTED ACROSS PONDS, CREEKS,
STREAMS AND RIVERS. PASTURE CONDITIONS DETERIORATED AND SOYBEAN PODS
WERE SHATTERING IN CENTRAL INDIANA.

WHILE SMALL DOSES OF RAIN OCCURRED HERE-AND-THERE IN SEPTEMBER,
NOTABLE RELIEF FINALLY OCCURRED AT THE END OF THE MONTH WHEN A TOTAL
OF 1.31 INCHES WAS RECORDED FROM THE 26TH THROUGH 28TH. (JUST WEST
OF THE AIRPORT, SOME COCORAHS OBSERVERS RECORDED OVER 2".) PRIOR TO
THE 26TH, FORT WAYNE WAS ON PACE TO RECORD PERHAPS ITS DRIEST
SEPTEMBER ON RECORD (0.32"). INSTEAD, PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH
TOTALED 1.63 INCHES WHICH IS THE 29TH DRIEST ON RECORD. THIS IS THE
DRIEST SINCE 2010 WHEN 1.36 INCHES WAS OBSERVED. (NOTE: 1.65 AND
1.67 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WAS RECORDED IN SEPTEMBER 2018 AND
2017, RESPECTIVELY.)

PAIRED WITH THE DRY CONDITIONS WERE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL
TEMPERATURES. A BLOCKING RIDGE WAS A FACTOR ONCE AGAIN. HIGH
TEMPERATURES WELL INTO THE 80S BEGAN THE MONTH, WITH ONE 90-DEGREE
DAY RECORDED. THE MIDDLE OF THE MONTH FEATURED A FALL-LIKE COOL
DOWN, WITH A TEN-DAY STRETCH OF BELOW-NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THIS WAS
QUICKLY OFFSET BY UNSEASONABLY MILD CONDITIONS IN THE FINAL THIRD OF
THE MONTH. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 66.1 DEGREES
WHICH IS 1.3 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 45TH WARMEST ON
RECORD.

NO RECORDS WERE SET THIS MONTH.


DROUGHT CONDITIONS IMPROVE IN OCTOBER

THERE WAS NEAR RECORD WARMTH TO BEGIN THE MONTH, AS HIGH
TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE 80S OCTOBER 1ST THROUGH 4TH. MID-OCTOBER
FEATURED NEAR TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THE LAST WEEK
OF THE MONTH FEATURED A 40+ DEGREE TEMPERATURES SWING; A HIGH OF 77
DEGREES WAS OBSERVED ON OCTOBER 24TH AND A WEEK LATER, THE 2ND
COLDEST HALLOWEEN ON RECORD WAS OBSERVED WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF
39 DEGREES. HALLOWEEN 2023 WAS THE COLDEST SINCE 1917! OVERALL, THE
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 54.7 DEGREES. THIS IS 1.5
DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 41ST WARMEST OCTOBER ON RECORD.

PRECIPITATION TOTALED 3.44 INCHES, WHICH WAS 0.49 INCHES ABOVE
NORMAL AND WAS THE 34TH WETTEST OCTOBER ON RECORD FOR FORT WAYNE.
THE WETTEST DAY WAS OCTOBER 29TH WITH 0.75". THERE WERE NO DAYS THIS
MONTH WITH A DAILY RAIN TOTAL OVER AN INCH; FORT WAYNE HAS NOT HAD A
DAY WHERE AN INCH OF RAIN OF MORE HAS FALLEN SINCE JULY 20!

THE FIRST SNOW OF THE SEASON FELL ON HALLOWEEN! FORT WAYNE MEASURED
A TRACE FOR THE DAY, WHICH TIES AS THE 5TH SNOWIEST HALLOWEEN ON
RECORD. THIS IS ONLY THE 8TH TIME SINCE RECORD KEEPING BEGAN IN 1897
THAT SNOW HAS BEEN OBSERVED ON HALLOWEEN. OVERALL, SNOWFALL FOR THE
MONTH WAS 0.1" BELOW NORMAL.

DROUGHT CONDITIONS GRADUALLY IMPROVED THROUGHOUT THE MONTH WITH THE
ABUNDANCE OF PRECIPITATION, WITH NO DROUGHT REMAINING BY HALLOWEEN.
THERE WERE SEVERAL HARD FREEZES NEAR THE END OF THE MONTH, WHICH LED
TO THE END OF THE GROWING SEASON.



5TH DRIEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD

TEMPERATURES IN NOVEMBER WERE ABOVE AVERAGE FOR THE FIRST TWO THIRDS
OF THE MONTH, BEFORE A PATTERN SHIFT TO BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES
AROUND THANKSGIVING AND TO FINISH OUT THE MONTH. THERE WERE 9 DAYS
WITH HIGHS AT OR ABOVE 60 DEGREES, WHICH IS ABOVE AVERAGE (NORMALLY
THERE ARE 6 DAYS WITH HIGHS AT OR ABOVE 60 IN NOVEMBER). OVERALL,
THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 41.3 DEGREES. THIS IS 0.2
DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND TIES FOR THE 53TH WARMEST NOVEMBER ON
RECORD IN FORT WAYNE.

THE LACK OF PRECIPITATION THIS MONTH IS LIKELY THE MOST NOTABLE
STATISTIC. OVER HALF OF THE MONTHLY TOTAL PRECIPITATION FELL IN JUST
24 HOURS; THE HIGHEST DAILY RAINFALL TOTAL WAS 0.34" ON NOVEMBER
21ST. PRECIPITATION TOTALED ONLY 0.64" FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH! THIS IS
2.32 " BELOW NORMAL AND WAS THE 5TH DRIEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD FOR
FORT WAYNE. THIS WAS THE DRIEST NOVEMBER SINCE 2012. RECORDS BEGAN
IN 1897.

ONLY ONE DAY IN NOVEMBER RECORDED MEASURABLE SNOW; 0.4" OF SNOW FELL
ON NOVEMBER 26TH. THE TOTAL OF 0.4" OF SNOW FOR THE MONTH WAS 1.5"
BELOW NORMAL. NOVEMBER 2023 TIES FOR THE 34TH LEAST SNOWIEST ON
RECORD.

NO RECORDS WERE SET THIS MONTH.

BROWN/JOHNSON

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