Climatological Report (Seasonal)
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
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110 CXUS53 KIWX 011450 CLSFWA CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 950 AM EST FRI DEC 01 2023 ................................... ...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 .............................................................. 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. && 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 $$