Climatological Report (Seasonal)
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
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000 CXUS53 KIWX 020114 CLSFWA CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 914 PM EDT WED JUN 01 2022 ................................... ...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE SEASON, FROM 3/1/2022 TO 5/31/2022... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1991 TO 2020 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1897 TO 2022 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE NORMAL .............................................................. TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 97 05/28/2018 LOW -10 03/01/1967 HIGHEST 92 05/31 MM MM 89 LOWEST 16 03/12 MM MM 19 03/13 AVG. MAXIMUM 61.5 60.3 1.2 62.6 AVG. MINIMUM 41.3 39.7 1.6 39.4 MEAN 51.4 50.0 1.4 DAYS MAX >= 90 1 1.1 -0.1 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 1 2.7 -1.7 0 DAYS MIN <= 32 21 27.8 -6.8 27 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.1 -0.1 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 18.50 2011 MINIMUM 5.07 1958 TOTALS 8.79 11.13 -2.34 10.31 DAILY AVG. 0.09 0.12 -0.03 0.11 DAYS >= .01 40 38.6 1.4 29 DAYS >= .10 21 22.1 -1.1 18 DAYS >= .50 8 7.1 0.9 7 DAYS >= 1.00 0 2.3 -2.3 2 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 1.07 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 19.5 1964 24 HR TOTAL 4.2 04/20/2021 TO 04/20/2021 TOTALS 2.3 5.4 -3.1 4.9 SINCE 7/1 23.2 33.6 -10.4 MM SNOWDEPTH AVG. T -1 DAYS >= TRACE 13 5.7 7.3 5 DAYS >= 1.0 0 1.8 -1.8 1 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 0 4 24 HR TOTAL MM DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 1344 1448 -104 1344 SINCE 7/1 5589 5943 -354 MM COOLING TOTAL 119 69 50 77 SINCE 1/1 119 70 49 MM .............................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 11.0 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 48/260 DATE 03/06 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 66/260 DATE 03/06 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.74 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 2 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 38 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 52 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 69 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 10 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 5 RAIN 16 LIGHT RAIN 45 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 2 LIGHT SNOW 13 SLEET 0 FOG 45 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 2 HAZE 8 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && SPRING 2022 THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 51.4 DEGREES IS 1.4 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 50.0 DEGREES. THIS TIES FOR THE 17TH WARMEST SPRING ON RECORD ALONG WITH 1929 AND 1922. PRECIPITATION TOTALED 8.79 INCHES WHICH IS 2.34 INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL OF 11.13 INCHES. THIS RANKS AS THE 35TH DRIEST SPRING ON RECORD. THIS IS THE DRIEST SPRING SINCE 8.40 INCHES IN 2018. SNOW TOTALED 2.3 INCHES WHICH IS 3.1 INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL OF 5.4 INCHES. THIS IS THE 27TH LEAST SNOWIEST SPRING ON RECORD. THIS IS OUR LEAST SNOWIEST SPRING SINCE 0.3 INCH OF SNOW FELL IN THE SPRING OF 2012. ACCORDING TO THE U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR, NO DROUGHT WAS NOTED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF THE SPRING SEASON. A MONTH BY MONTH SUMMARY IS BELOW. MAY 2022 A WARM AND DRY MONTH MAY BEGAN WITH AROUND AVERAGE TEMPERATURES UNTIL THE 9TH. MUCH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES FOLLOWED FROM THE 10TH TO THE 15TH WITH AVERAGE TEMPERATURES AS MUCH AS 10 TO 20 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE SET ON THE 11TH AND 12TH FOR FORT WAYNE. THESE ARE THE WARMEST AVERAGE TEMPERATURES THIS STRETCH OF 6 DAYS HAS SEEN IN THE PERIOD OF RECORD. A VARIABLE PATTERN FOLLOWED WITH A MIX OF ABOVE AND BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES INTO THE LATTER HALF OF THE MONTH. OVERALL THE MONTH FINISHED OUT WARMER THAN NORMAL. A WET START TO MAY BROUGHT 1.80 INCHES OF RAIN FROM THE 1ST TO 6TH OF THE MONTH. THIS IS THE 6TH WETTEST 6-DAY STRETCH TO BEGIN THE MONTH OF MAY. 2003 (3.01 INCHES) AND 2017 (2.80 INCHES) ARE THE TOP 2 WETTEST OF THIS STRETCH. FOLLOWING THIS STRETCH, A PERIOD OF MOSTLY DRY WEATHER TOOK OVER THROUGH THE END OF THE MONTH. THIS MOSTLY DRY PERIOD HELPED THE MONTH FINISH OUT BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION-WISE. APRIL 2022 DRIER AND COOLER, THOUGH WITH SLIGHTLY MORE SNOW THAN NORMAL THIS MONTH CONTAINED UPS AND DOWNS AS FAR AS TEMPERATURE GOES, BUT DESPITE A PLEASANT WARM UP BETWEEN THE 21ST AND THE 24TH, THE MONTH STILL FINISHED BELOW NORMAL FOR MEAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURES. DUE TO THE AFOREMENTIONED LATER MONTH WARM UP, THE GROWING SEASON STARTED IN THE AREA AND A FREEZE WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR THE MORNING OF THE 27TH WITH A LOW TEMPERATURE OF 31 DEGREES RECORDED. A RECORD WARM LOW TEMPERATURE WAS ACHIEVED ON THE 13TH AT 61 DEGREES, WHICH BROKE THE OLD RECORD SET BACK IN 1955. THIS IS ALSO THE 10TH EARLIEST INSTANCE OF AN OBSERVED MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 60 DEGREES OR WARMER. FORT WAYNE ACTUALLY HAD AN ABOVE NORMAL APRIL WHEN IT COMES TO SNOWFALL. BUT THAT ISN`T SAYING MUCH SINCE THE NORMAL IS 0.8 INCHES OF SNOW. THERE WERE THREE DAYS OF MEASUREABLE SNOW THIS MONTH WITH THE HIGHEST SNOWFALL OCCURRING ON THE 18TH AT 0.6 INCHES, WHICH BROKE THE OLD DAILY SNOWFALL RECORD FOR THAT DAY THAT WAS SET BACK IN 1956. MARCH 2022 WARM WITH ABOVE AVERAGE PRECIPITATION AS IS USUALLY THE CASE FOR SPRING, TEMPERATURES WERE TOPSY-TURVY. FORT WAYNE HAD A FEW TASTES OF SPRING DURING THIS MONTH AS TEMPERATURES ROSE INTO THE 70S ON 3 SEPARATE DAYS. WITH REALLY ONLY TWO COLD BLASTS THIS MONTH, THE MEAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FINISHED ABOVE NORMAL BY 3.1 DEGREES. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 50.4 DEGREES RECORDED FROM MARCH 14TH TO MARCH 23RD CONTAINED THE 6TH WARMEST MEAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WHEN COMPARED TO THE SAME TIME FRAME IN FORT WAYNE`S 100-YEAR-PLUS PERIOD OF RECORD. IF YOU GUESSED 2012 HAD A WARMER PERIOD OF AVERAGE TEMPERATURES, YOU`D BE RIGHT; AT 16 DEGREES WARMER THAN 50.4 DEGREES. THIS MONTH`S ABOVE AVERAGE PRECIPITATION TOTAL OF 3.18 INCHES WAS ATTAINED THROUGH A COUPLE MODERATE RAINFALL DAYS. 3 DAYS THIS MONTH HAD RAIN TOTALLING GREATER THAN 0.5 INCH INCLUDING THE 7TH, THE 18TH, AND THE 22ND. IT WAS ALSO HELPED BY HAVING OVER HALF OF THE DAYS THIS MONTH OBSERVING PRECIPITATION OF A TRACE OR HIGHER. THE AVERAGE SNOWFALL THAT THE MONTH OF MARCH NORMALLY SEES IS 4 INCHES OF SNOW. HOWEVER, THE STORM TRACK KEPT THE SNOW FARTHER WEST OF FORT WAYNE AND THIS ALLOWED IT TO SEE BELOW NORMAL SNOWFALL; ONLY TOTALLING 1.0 INCH OF SNOW. ROLLER/MURPHY/MORRIS/FISHER/HOLSTEN $$