Climatological Report (Seasonal)
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
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000 CXUS53 KIWX 011613 CLSFWA CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1113 AM EST WED DEC 01 2021 ................................... ...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE SEASON, FROM 9/1/2021 TO 11/30/2021... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1991 TO 2020 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1897 TO 2021 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 91 09/14 MM MM 84 LOWEST 20 11/23 MM MM 21 AVG. MAXIMUM 65.2 63.1 2.1 64.1 AVG. MINIMUM 45.6 43.0 2.6 42.4 MEAN 55.4 53.0 2.4 DAYS MAX >= 90 2 1.5 0.5 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 0 1.6 -1.6 0 DAYS MIN <= 32 19 19.1 -0.1 19 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 16.47 1992 MINIMUM 2.89 1964 TOTALS 12.16 8.95 3.21 10.78 DAILY AVG. 0.14 0.10 0.04 0.12 DAYS >= .01 36 29.7 6.3 26 DAYS >= .10 22 17.8 4.2 20 DAYS >= .50 8 5.8 2.2 9 DAYS >= 1.00 3 2.1 0.9 4 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 2.17 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 14.1 1950 24 HR TOTAL 0.6 11/30/2020 TO 11/30/2020 TOTALS 1.6 2.0 -0.4 1.0 SINCE 7/1 1.6 2.0 -0.4 MM SNOWDEPTH AVG. T 0 DAYS >= TRACE 9 3.0 6.0 3 DAYS >= 1.0 1 0.5 0.5 0 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 0 0 24 HR TOTAL 0.0 DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 1021 1187 -166 1105 SINCE 7/1 1021 1197 -176 MM COOLING TOTAL 175 98 77 61 SINCE 1/1 1062 849 213 MM .............................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 8.6 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 37/290 DATE 10/24 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 56/290 DATE 10/24 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.63 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 21 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 29 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 41 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 73 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 8 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 9 RAIN 11 LIGHT RAIN 41 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 1 LIGHT SNOW 10 SLEET 0 FOG 48 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 3 HAZE 5 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && AFTER A DRY START IN SEPTEMBER, FALL 2021 FEATURED SOAKING RAIN LATE IN THE MONTH, AND THE WATER FAUCET REMAINED IN THE ON POSITION THROUGH OCTOBER, BEFORE DRYING OUT IN NOVEMBER. ALL THREE MONTHS WERE WARMER THAN NORMAL. DESPITE THIS, SEASONABLE CHILLS WERE EPISODIC AND THE FIRST ONE-INCH SNOWFALL OCCURRED NEAR ITS NORMAL OF MID-NOVEMBER. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 55.4 DEGREES IS 2.4 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 11TH WARMEST FALL ON RECORD. THIS IS THE WARMEST FALL SINCE 2016 (57.5 DEGREES). PRECIPITATION TOTALED 12.16 INCHES, 3.21 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 12TH WETTEST FALL ON RECORD. THIS IS THE WETTEST FALL SINCE 2011 (14.66 INCHES). TOTAL SNOW THIS FALL WAS 1.6 INCHES, 0.4 INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL OF 2 INCHES. THIS RANKS AS THE 58TH LEAST ON RECORD. A MONTH BY MONTH SUMMARY IS BELOW. SEPTEMBER 2021 ...A STRETCH OF WARMTH AND SOAKING STORM SYSTEM... THE MONTH BEGAN WITH TEMPERATURES GENERALLY NEAR NORMAL THROUGH THE FIRST 10 DAYS. THEN, THERE WAS A STRETCH OF ANOMALOUS WARMTH WHERE HIGH TEMPERATURES REACHED WELL INTO THE 80S, AND REACHED 90 OR GREATER TWO TIMES. THIS BRINGS OUR TOTAL NUMBER OF 90-DEGREE DAYS THIS YEAR TO SEVEN. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY A COOL AND RAINY STRETCH. ALL TOLD, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 67.5 DEGREES WHICH IS 2.7 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS TIES 2002 AS THE 24TH WARMEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD. AFTER A DRY START TO THE MONTH, AS LESS THAN A HALF-INCH WAS OBSERVED THROUGH THE 19TH, A SLOW-MOVING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DRENCHED NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO WITH RAIN TOTALS IN EXCESS OF 5 INCHES FOR SOME. AT THE AIRPORT, 2.90 INCHES WAS OBSERVED FROM THE 20TH THROUGH 23RD. THE 2.11 INCHES OF RAIN THAT FELL ON THE 22ND SET A NEW RECORD, BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 1.24 INCHES IN 2003. PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH TOTALED 3.78 INCHES WHICH IS 0.74 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 31ST WETTEST ON RECORD. THIS IS THE WETTEST SEPTEMBER SINCE 2016 WHEN 5.44 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION OCCURRED. OCTOBER 2021 ...TOP TEN WARMEST AND WETTEST... THIS WAS A REMARKABLE MONTH WITH RECORD-WARMTH THROUGH THE 21ST AND RELENTLESS RAIN. FORT WAYNE EXPERIENCED ITS WARMEST OCTOBER ON RECORD THROUGH OCTOBER 20TH WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 64.3 (AHEAD OF 2007, 63.9 DEGREES. BY THE 21ST, WE WERE TIED WITH 2007 WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 63.9 DEGREES. THEN ON THE 22ND, OCTOBER 2007 SURPASSED THIS YEAR`S WARMTH WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 63.8 (VS 63.2 OCTOBER 2021). WITHIN THIS STRETCH OF WARMTH, TWO RECORDS WERE TIED OR BROKEN: ON 10/10: THE RECORD WARMEST LOW WAS TIED (66 IN 1904) ON THE 10/11: A NEW RECORD WARMEST LOW OF 64 (PREVIOUS 62 IN 1954) A SEASONABLE CHILL FINALLY ARRIVED TO THE AREA ON THE 22ND WHEN THE AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE WAS THREE DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THE FINAL TEN DAYS OF THE MONTH ALSO FEATURED THE FIRST 32-DEGREE FROST WITH A MORNING LOW OF 32 ON THE 27TH. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 59.3 DEGREES WHICH IS 6.1 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 7TH WARMEST OCTOBER ON RECORD. A PROGRESSIVE WEATHER PATTERN BROUGHT SEVERAL ROUNDS OF RAIN TO THE AREA TO START THE MONTH, INCLUDING A TWO-DAY TOTAL OF 2.54 INCHES ENDING ON THE 15TH. THERE WAS A BRIEF DRY PERIOD FROM THE 17TH TO 20TH BEFORE ANOTHER ROUND OF SOAKING RAIN ARRIVED; 2.00 INCHES TOTAL ON THE 24TH AND 25TH. THESE RAIN EVENTS WERE UNWELCOME FOR FALL HARVEST. NINETEEN DAYS THIS MONTH FEATURED MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION; A RECORD FOR OCTOBER (18 DAYS IN 1911 IS #2). ALL TOLD, PRECIPITATION TOTALED 7.31 INCHES AND RANKS AS THE 5TH WETTEST ON RECORD. THIS IS 4.36 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS IS THE WETTEST OCTOBER SINCE 7.40 INCHES IN 2001. ONE DAILY PRECIPITATION RECORD WAS SET THIS MONTH: 1.83 INCHES ON THE 14TH BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 0.88 IN 2008. NO SNOW WAS REPORTED THIS MONTH WHICH IS BELOW THE NORMAL OF 0.1 INCH. NOVEMBER 2021 ...TEMPERATURE SWINGS AND MUCH BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION... THIS MONTH FEATURED A NUMBER OF TEMPERATURE SWINGS, BUT ULTIMATELY THE COOLER-THAN-NORMAL DAYS ENSURED AN AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE BELOW NORMAL BY 1.6 DEGREES. THIS RANKS AS TIED FOR THE 40TH COLDEST ON RECORD. THERE WERE FOUR DAYS WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE IN THE 60S THIS MONTH (NOVEMBER 2020 FEATURED 10 DAYS), AND TWO DAYS THAT HAD A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 59. THIS FIRST SNOW OF THIS UPCOMING WINTER SEASON WAS REPORTED ON THE 12TH (TRACE) AND THE FIRST MEASURABLE SNOW OCCURRED ON THE 14TH WHEN 1.0 INCHES OF SNOW WAS OBSERVED. THIS DATE IS NEAR-NORMAL FOR THE FIRST 1-INCH SNOWFALL. THE MONTH`S TOTAL SNOW WAS 1.6 INCHES WHICH IS 0.3 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 62ND LEAST SNOWIEST ON RECORD. PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH TOTALED ONLY 1.07 INCHES WHICH IS 1.89 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 12TH DRIEST ON RECORD. THIS IS THE DRIEST NOVEMBER SINCE 2012, WHEN ONLY 0.60 INCHES WAS OBSERVED. NO RECORDS WERE SET THIS MONTH. BROWN $$