Climatological Report (Seasonal)
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
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000 CXUS53 KIWX 011116 CLSFWA CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 616 AM EST TUE MAR 01 2022 ................................... ...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE SEASON, FROM 12/1/2021 TO 2/28/2022... 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 73 02/25/2000 LOW -24 01/12/1918 HIGHEST 62 12/11 MM MM 63 LOWEST -9 01/26 MM MM -6 AVG. MAXIMUM 37.3 35.5 1.8 35.0 AVG. MINIMUM 20.4 21.2 -0.8 21.6 MEAN 28.9 28.4 0.5 DAYS MAX >= 90 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 37 35.5 1.5 31 DAYS MIN <= 32 76 76.7 -0.7 80 DAYS MIN <= 0 5 6.1 -1.1 3 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 17.85 1950 MINIMUM 1.58 1920 TOTALS 8.04 7.07 0.97 4.71 DAILY AVG. 0.09 0.08 0.01 0.05 DAYS >= .01 29 36.3 -7.3 32 DAYS >= .10 17 17.1 -0.1 9 DAYS >= .50 8 4.3 3.7 4 DAYS >= 1.00 0 0.9 -0.9 0 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 0.86 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 61.1 1982 24 HR TOTAL MM TOTALS 19.3 26.2 -6.9 29.9 SINCE 7/1 20.9 28.2 -7.3 MM SNOWDEPTH AVG. 1 2 DAYS >= TRACE 40 25.3 14.7 44 DAYS >= 1.0 6 8.4 -2.4 6 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 9 02/04 15 02/05 24 HR TOTAL 6.7 02/02 TO 02/03 DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 3224 3298 -74 3260 SINCE 7/1 4245 4497 -252 MM COOLING TOTAL 0 0 0 0 SINCE 1/1 0 0 0 MM .............................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 10.8 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 46/260 DATE 12/11 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 61/250 DATE 12/11 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.71 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 10 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 32 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 48 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 75 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 2 MIXED PRECIP 2 HEAVY RAIN 3 RAIN 7 LIGHT RAIN 25 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 9 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 7 LIGHT SNOW 39 SLEET 2 FOG 49 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 7 HAZE 14 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && THIS WINTER OPENED WET AND WARM AND CLOSED WET AND COLD; FINISHING WETTER AND SLIGHTLY WARMER THAN NORMAL. TEMPERATURE-WISE, ALMOST ALL OF DECEMBER FEATURED TEMPERATURES THAT WERE NORMAL TO ABOVE NORMAL. THE LONE EXCEPTION WOULD BE DECEMBER 7TH, WHICH HAD A MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 24 DEGREES AND WAS 2 DEGREES BELOW THE NORMAL LOW TEMPERATURE FOR THAT DAY. JANUARY FEATURED TEMPERATURES THAT WERE CLOSER TO NORMAL FOR THE BULK OF THE MONTH. HOWEVER, AFTER JANUARY 20TH, BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES CLOSED OUT THE MONTH; HELPING IT TO FINISH BELOW NORMAL. FEBRUARY HAD STRONG TEMPERATURE SWINGS, BUT STILL FINISHED OUT SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL. OVERALL, THIS WINTER AVERAGED 28.9 DEGREES AND TIED AS THE 41ST WARMEST WHEN COMPARED TO THE PERIOD OF RECORD. PRECIPITATION-WISE, DECEMBER STARTED OUT WETTER THAN NORMAL WITH 6 DAYS OF PRECIPITATION TOTALS HIGHER THAN 0.5 INCH. A DRIER THAN NORMAL JANUARY ENSUED WITH ONLY 2 DAYS OF PRECIPITATION HIGHER THAN 0.2 INCH. FEBRUARY ALSO ENDED WETTER THAN NORMAL WITH 2 DAYS OF PRECIPITATION TOTALS HIGHER THAN 0.5 INCH. OVERALL, THIS WINTER TOTALED 8.04 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION AND TIED AS THE 32ND WETTEST WHEN COMPARED TO THE PERIOD OF RECORD. SNOWFALL-WISE, DECEMBER AND JANUARY FINISHED BELOW NORMAL, BUT FEBRUARY FINISHED ABOVE NORMAL. WE WERE GOING TO BE HARD-PRESSED TO MILK OUT ANY SNOW IN DECEMBER AS ONLY A FEW DAYS OF THE MONTH WERE COLD ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SNOW. MORE COLD DAYS WERE OBSERVED IN JANUARY, BUT WE LACKED PRECIPITATION TO GET MORE THAN A COUPLE INCHES OF SNOW. FEBRUARY FINALLY HAD ENOUGH PRECIPITATION DAYS AND ENOUGH COLD AIR AROUND TO BE ABLE TO PRODUCE SNOW. OVERALL, THIS WINTER TOTALLED 19.3 INCHES OF SNOWFALL AND FINISHED AS THE 51ST LEAST SNOWIEST WHEN COMPARED TO THE PERIOD OF RECORD. A MONTH BY MONTH SUMMARY IS BELOW. DECEMBER 2021 TOP TEN WARMEST AND LEAST SNOWIEST SNOW LOVERS WERE DISAPPOINTED THIS MONTH WHILE THOSE WHO DETEST WINTER CELEBRATED THE MILD AIR AND LACK OF SNOW. COLD AIR WAS LOCKED OUT OF OUR AREA, INSTEAD RESIDING OFF TO OUR NORTHWEST. ONLY THREE DAYS THIS MONTH REPORTED BELOW NORMAL AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE DEPARTURES. DECEMBER 7TH AND 8TH (-12.7 AND -5.4 RESPECTIVELY) AND DECEMBER 22ND (-2.2 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.) THESE THREE COLD DAYS WERE OFFSET BY SEVERAL DAYS WITH WELL ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THE HIGHEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OCCURRED ON DECEMBER 11TH AT 62 DEGREES. THIS WAS 1 DEGREE SHORT OF TYING THE RECORD OF 63 DEGREES SET IN 1949. ALTHOUGH THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE OCCURRED ON THE 11TH, THE WARMEST DAY OF THE MONTH OCCURRED ON THE 15TH. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 21.6 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE DAY. WHILE THE RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS MISSED ON THE 15TH (THE RECORD IS 64 DEGREES SET IN 1933), THE LOW TEMPERATURE OF 45 BROKE THE PREVIOUS (WARM) LOW TEMPERATURE RECORD OF 42 IN 1971. WITH THE ABOVE IN MIND, IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT THIS RANKS AS THE 5TH WARMEST DECEMBER ON RECORD. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES THIS MONTH WAS 38.1 DEGREES WHICH IS 7.2 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS IS THE WARMEST DECEMBER SINCE 2015 (41.5 DEGREES; WARMEST ON RECORD). PRECIPITATION THIS MONTH, MAINLY RAIN, WAS COMMON WITH 4.27 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION REPORTED. THIS IS 1.80 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 14TH WETTEST DECEMBER ON RECORD. RECORD RAINFALL FELL ON DECEMBER 6TH WITH AN OBSERVED 0.86 INCHES. THIS BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 0.69 INCHES SET IN 1924. THE LACK OF SNOWFALL THIS MONTH WAS NOTABLE UNTIL THE VERY END WHEN 0.9 INCHES WAS OBSERVED ON 12/28. UNTIL THEN, THE ONLY MEASURABLE SNOWFALL OCCURRED ON 12/8 WITH A TENTH OF AN INCH REPORTED. SNOW THIS MONTH TOTALED 1.0 INCH WHICH IS 6.6 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 10TH LEAST AMOUNT OF SNOW ON RECORD FOR FORT WAYNE. THE LEAST SNOWIEST DECEMBER ON RECORD WAS IN 1931 WHEN ONLY A TRACE OF SNOW WAS REPORTED FOR THE MONTH. THE SNOWIEST DECEMBER OCCURRED IN 1914 WHEN 23.0 INCHES OF SNOW WAS RECORDED. DECEMBER 2021 WAS NOTABLE FROM A NATIONAL WEATHER PERSPECTIVE AS THERE WERE TWO DEVASTATING SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAKS. THE FIRST OCCURRED ON THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 10TH RESULTING IN NEARLY 400 SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS. THERE WERE 66 CONFIRMED TORNADOES INCLUDING TWO SUPERCELLS WHICH TRAVELED WELL OVER 100 MILES. THIS INCLUDES THE TORNADO THE IMPACTED MAYFIELD, KY. NEXT, AN ANOMALOUSLY DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM PRODUCED A SERIAL DERECHO AS IT MOVED FROM THE ROCKIES TO THE PLAINS AND INTO THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY BEGINNING ON DECEMBER 15TH. THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DERECHO PRODUCED HUNDREDS OF WIND DAMAGE REPORTS AND OVER 90 CONFIRMED TORNADOES. DUE TO THE DEEP NATURE OF THE LOW, THERE WERE WIDESPREAD SYNOPTIC WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 70 MPH, WITH SEVERAL SITES RECORDING WIND GUSTS AS GREAT AS 90 TO 100 MPH. (SOURCE: CENTRAL REGION HEADQUARTERS) BROWN/LEWIS JANUARY 2022: ...MUCH BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION WITH A VERY COLD END TO THE MONTH... THE MONTH FINISHED VERY COLD WITH THE LAST 10 DAYS OF THE MONTH EXPERIENCING MINIMUM TEMPERATURES OF COLDER THAN 10 DEGREES. FOUR OF THESE DAYS HAD MINIMUM TEMPERATURES BELOW ZERO WITH THE COLDEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF -9 DEGREES ON JANUARY 26TH. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH 20.9 DEGREES WHICH WAS 4.6 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 27TH COLDEST ON RECORD. THE MONTH WAS VERY DRY WITH ONLY 0.83 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION, MORE THAN HALF OF WHICH FELL ON THE 1ST AND 23RD OF THE MONTH. THIS RANKS AS THE 17TH DRIEST ON RECORD. SNOWFALL FOR THE MONTH TOTALED ONLY 4.6 INCHES WITH MOST OF THIS SNOW FALLING ON THE 23RD AND 24TH OF THE MONTH. THIS RANKS AS THE 37TH LEAST SNOWIEST AT FORT WAYNE. THERE WERE 2 RECORDS SET FOR THE MONTH. A DAILY RECORD SNOWFALL OF 2.7 INCHES WAS SET AT FORT WAYNE FOR THE DATE OF JANUARY 23RD. THIS BROKE THE OLD RECORD OF 2.0 INCHES SET BACK IN 2004. A RECORD DAILY LOW TEMPERATURE OF -9 DEGREES WAS SET ON JANUARY 26TH WHICH BROKE THE OLD RECORD OF -8 DEGREES SET BACK IN 1936. FEBRUARY 2022 ABOVE NORMAL SNOWFALL AND ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION THIS MONTH WAS CHARACTERIZED BY THE ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION THAT FELL DURING THE MONTH. OVERALL THE MONTH FINISHED WITH 2.94 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION, WHICH IS 0.88 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 20TH WETTEST MONTH PRECIPITATION-WISE AND FINISHED WITH RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM PRECIPITATION TOTALS ON THE 17TH AND 2ND OF THE MONTH. WHILE THE TEMPERATURE FINISHED OUT NORMAL FOR THE MONTH, WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 27.7 DEGREES WHEN COMPARED WITH THE NORMAL OF 28.1 DEGREES, FEBRUARY WILL BE MORE NOTED FOR ITS TEMPERATURE SWINGS THAN THAT IT FINISHED OUT AROUND AVERAGE TEMPERATURE-WISE. FOR INSTANCE, 6 OF THE MONTH`S MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES WERE HIGHER THAN FEBRUARY`S AVERAGE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE BY 7 DEGREES. IN ADDITION, 7 OF THE MONTH`S MINIMUM TEMPERATURES WERE LOWER THAN FEBRUARY`S AVERAGE MINIMUM TEMPERATURE BY 7 DEGREES. THE LOWER TEMPERATURES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH LEAD TO THE CREATION OF ICE ON AREA RIVERS THAT BROKE UP LATER IN THE MONTH WITH THE WARM UP AND THE OBSERVED RAINFALL. FEBRUARY ALSO BROUGHT THE HIGHEST MONTHLY SNOWFALL TOTALS OF THIS WINTER. AS SUCH, THE 13.7 INCHES OF SNOW THAT WAS OBSERVED THIS MONTH SURPASSED THE 6.8 INCHES OF NORMAL SNOWFALL FOR THE MONTH. THIS RANKED AS THE 20TH SNOWIEST FEBRUARY ON RECORD. A DAILY MAXIMUM SNOWFALL RECORD OF 4.4 INCHES OCCURRED ON THE 2ND THIS YEAR, WHICH BROKE THE OLD RECORD OF 3.3 INCHES SET IN 1973. WITH SNOWPACK MELT, ICE JAMS, A FROZEN GROUND SURFACE, AND RAINFALL OCCURRING AT OPTIMAL TIMES, STANDING WATER AND RIVER FLOODING OCCURRED BETWEEN THE 17TH AND 23RD OF THE MONTH. $$ ROLLER/SKIPPER/FISHER