Climatological Report (Monthly)
Issued by NWS
Issued by NWS
000 CXUS53 KIWX 010855 CLMSBN CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 455 AM EDT SUN OCT 01 2023 ................................... ...THE SOUTH BEND CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2023... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1991 TO 2020 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1893 TO 2023 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE DATE(S) NORMAL ................................................................ TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 99 09/01/1953 09/08/1933 09/07/1933 LOW 29 09/28/1942 HIGHEST 93 09/05 MM MM 89 09/03 LOWEST 46 09/14 MM MM 37 09/29 AVG. MAXIMUM 76.5 74.4 2.1 76.0 AVG. MINIMUM 56.7 53.0 3.7 55.2 MEAN 66.6 63.7 2.9 DAYS MAX >= 90 3 1.5 1.5 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MIN <= 32 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 13.92 2008 MINIMUM 0.01 1979 TOTALS 1.71 3.49 -1.78 2.41 DAILY AVG. 0.06 0.12 -0.06 0.08 DAYS >= .01 7 9.6 -2.6 10 DAYS >= .10 4 5.9 -1.9 5 DAYS >= .50 2 2.2 -0.2 2 DAYS >= 1.00 0 0.8 -0.8 0 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 0.78 09/11 TO 09/12 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 1.2 1942 TOTALS 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 SINCE 7/1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 0 DAYS >= 1.0 0 0.0 0.0 0 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 0 24 HR TOTAL MM DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 46 116 -70 99 SINCE 7/1 49 137 -88 99 COOLING TOTAL 102 77 25 125 SINCE 1/1 780 714 66 995 ................................................................ WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 6.2 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 23/260 DATE 09/06 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 31/250 DATE 09/06 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.38 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 17 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 5 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 8 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 72 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 3 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 3 RAIN 4 LIGHT RAIN 9 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 0 LIGHT SNOW 0 SLEET 0 FOG 17 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 1 HAZE 2 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && ...29TH DRIEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD RESULTS IN WORSENING DROUGHT... RECALL THAT ONLY A TRACE OF RAIN HAD FALLEN AT SOUTH BEND FROM AUGUST 18TH TO 31ST. THIS DRYNESS CONTINUED INTO SEPTEMBER AS MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION WAS NOT RECORDED UNTIL THE 6TH (0.60 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 26TH, 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. PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH TOTALED 1.71 INCHES WHICH IS THE 29TH DRIEST ON RECORD. THIS IS THE DRIEST SINCE 2020 WHEN 1.68 INCHES WAS OBSERVED. PAIRED WITH THE DRY CONDITIONS WERE ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. A BLOCKING RIDGE WAS A FACTOR ONCE AGAIN. THERE WERE THREE 90-DEGREE DAYS EARLY IN THE MONTH WHICH IS ABOVE THE NORMAL VALUE OF 1.5 DAYS IN SEPTEMBER. (THE ANNUAL TOTAL IS NOW 15, WHICH IS ABOVE THE NORMAL VALUE OF 13.5 DAYS PER YEAR.) THE MIDDLE OF THE MONTH WAS COOLER, WITH A NINE-DAY STRETCH OF BELOW-NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THIS WAS QUICKLY OFFSET BY UNSEASONABLY MILD CONDITIONS ON THE 21ST AND 22ND WHICH SAW A DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE 10 AND 11 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL, RESPECTIVELY. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 66.6 DEGREES WHICH IS 2.9 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 33RD WARMEST ON RECORD, TIED WITH 1930 AND 1915. NO RECORDS WERE SET THIS MONTH. BROWN. $$