Climatological Report (Monthly)
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
675 CXUS53 KIWX 010954 CLMFWA CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 454 AM EST THU FEB 01 2024 ................................... ...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2024... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1991 TO 2020 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1897 TO 2024 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE DATE(S) NORMAL ................................................................ TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 69 01/25/1950 LOW -24 01/12/1918 HIGHEST 44 01/09 MM MM 62 01/03 01/24 01/25 LOWEST -6 01/15 MM MM 8 01/27 AVG. MAXIMUM 32.0 32.6 -0.6 39.9 AVG. MINIMUM 22.9 18.4 4.5 28.5 MEAN 27.4 25.5 1.9 DAYS MAX >= 90 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 9 15.3 -6.3 4 DAYS MIN <= 32 23 27.5 -4.5 23 DAYS MIN <= 0 3 3.3 -0.3 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 9.72 1950 MINIMUM 0.39 1966 TOTALS 3.95 2.54 1.41 2.75 DAILY AVG. 0.13 0.08 0.05 0.09 DAYS >= .01 16 13.2 2.8 15 DAYS >= .10 10 6.2 3.8 7 DAYS >= .50 1 1.5 -0.5 1 DAYS >= 1.00 1 0.4 0.6 0 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 1.28 01/09 TO 01/09 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 30.3 2014 TOTALS 7.3 10.8 -3.5 10.4 SINCE 7/1 8.2 20.4 -12.2 17.4 SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 1 DAYS >= 1.0 3 3.5 -0.5 2 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 3 01/20 7 24 HR TOTAL 2.0 01/09 TO 01/09 DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 1157 1224 -67 947 SINCE 7/1 3025 3482 -457 3147 COOLING TOTAL 0 0 0 0 SINCE 1/1 0 0 0 0 ................................................................ WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 10.7 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 39/230 DATE 01/13 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 54/220 DATE 01/13 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.89 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 0 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 5 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 26 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 80 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 0 MIXED PRECIP 1 HEAVY RAIN 2 RAIN 4 LIGHT RAIN 13 FREEZING RAIN 1 LT FREEZING RAIN 4 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 1 SNOW 0 LIGHT SNOW 20 SLEET 3 FOG 23 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 5 HAZE 6 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && JANUARY 2024 THE FIRST 12 DAYS OF JANUARY WERE MILD, WITH AN AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE AS GREAT AS 13 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL (JANUARY 9TH). BY THE END OF THAT PERIOD, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH (32.3 DEGREES) WAS 6.0 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL WHICH RANKS AS THE 29TH WARMEST ON RECORD. AS THE POLAR VORTEX WEAKENED, COLD AIR BLASTED INTO THE REGION. FROM THE 13TH THROUGH 22ND, THE AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE WAS AS MUCH AS 24 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL (JANUARY 15TH). HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE SINGLE DIGITS AT TIMES AND OVERNIGHT LOWS WERE BELOW ZERO. THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH, -6 ON THE 15TH, WAS THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE RECORDED AT FORT WAYNE SINCE -9 DEGREES ON JANUARY 26, 2022. THIS CHILL WAS SHORT LIVED AS ABOVE- NORMAL TEMPERATURES RETURNED TO END THE MONTH. THE MONTH ENDED WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 27.4 DEGREES WHICH IS 1.9 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS TIES AS THE 48TH WARMEST JANUARY ON RECORD. RECORDS BEGAN IN 1897. AS THE ARCTIC AIR ARRIVED AND SUBSEQUENTLY DEPARTED, A COUPLE EPISODES OF SNOW OCCURRED TOTALING 7.3 INCHES FOR THE MONTH. THIS IS 3.5 INCHES BELOW NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 58TH LEAST ON RECORD. THIS IS A FEW INCHES SHY OF THE 10.4 INCHES RECORDED IN JANUARY 2023. SNOW ON THE 9TH WAS NOTABLE BECAUSE A PRECIPITATION RECORD OF 1.28" OCCURRED THAT DAY PAIRED WITH 2.0 INCHES OF HEAVY WET SNOW (PREVIOUS RECORD OF 0.75 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION IN 1930). THIS WAS A RESULT OF RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW. STANDING WATER WAS TRAPPED BENEATH THIS "CONCRETE SNOW" MAKING FOR SOUPY, SLOPPY CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE REGION. PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH TOTALED AN IMPRESSIVE 3.95 INCHES. THIS IS 1.41 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 20TH WETTEST ON RECORD. THE HIGHEST DAILY PRECIPITATION TOTAL WAS 1.28". BEFORE JANAURY 9TH, IT HAD BEEN 173 DAYS WITHOUT A DAILY PRECIPITATION TOTAL OVER AN INCH! THIS WAS THE WETTEST JANUARY SINCE 4.07 INCHES IN JANUARY 2020. FOR PERSPECTIVE, THIS MONTHLY TOTAL IS COMPARABLE TO THE NORMAL PRECIPITATION AMOUNT FOR AUGUST; 3.80 INCHES. BROWN/JOHNSON $$