Climatological Report (Seasonal)
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
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000 CXUS53 KIWX 011232 CLSFWA CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 822 AM EDT MON JUN 1 2020 ................................... ...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR SPRING 2020... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1897 TO 2020 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE NORMAL ............................................................. TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 97 05/28/2018 LOW -10 03/01/1967 HIGHEST 91 05/26 MM MM 86 LOWEST 16 03/01 MM MM 8 AVG. MAXIMUM 59.3 60.3 -1.0 58.6 AVG. MINIMUM 38.7 38.9 -0.2 40.2 MEAN 49.0 49.6 -0.6 DAYS MAX >= 90 1 0.6 0.4 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 0 2.8 -2.8 5 DAYS MIN <= 32 35 27.1 7.9 23 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 18.50 2011 MINIMUM 5.07 1958 TOTALS 9.19 10.50 -1.31 13.32 DAILY AVG. 0.10 0.11 -0.01 0.15 DAYS >= .01 44 38.1 5.9 48 DAYS >= .10 18 21.9 -3.9 26 DAYS >= .50 6 6.8 -0.8 8 DAYS >= 1.00 1 2.1 -1.1 3 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 1.35 MM SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 19.5 1964 24 HR TOTAL MM TOTALS 3.4 5.1 -1.7 2.8 SINCE 7/1 26.5 33.5 -7.0 24.7 SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 MM MM 0 DAYS >= TRACE 10 5.1 4.9 10 DAYS >= 1.0 2 1.6 0.4 1 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 1 03/15 1 03/01 24 HR TOTAL 1.5 MM DEGREE_DAYS HEATING TOTAL 1499 1475 24 1481 SINCE 7/1 MM 6072 MM MM COOLING TOTAL 56 58 -2 68 SINCE 1/1 56 57 -1 68 .............................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 9.7 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 47/240 DATE 05/10 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 77/240 DATE 05/10 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.70 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 9 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 37 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 46 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 70 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && ...NEAR-AVERAGE SPRING TEMPERATURES, BELOW-NORMAL PRECIPITATION.... BY READING THE MONTHLY SUMMARIES THAT FOLLOW, IT IS CLEAR THAT SPRING 2020 OFFERED A ROLLER COASTER OF TEMPERATURES. THEREFORE, IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 49.0 DEGREES IS ONLY 0.6 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THE FIRST 90-DEGREE DAY WAS OBSERVED ROUGHLY 3 WEEKS EARLIER THAN NORMAL (JANUARY 1ST AS A STARTING POINT). PRECIPITATION TOTALED 9.19 INCHES, WHICH IS 1.31 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 47TH DRIEST ON RECORD. THIS SPRING`S TOTAL WAS 4.14 INCHES LESS THAN 2019. THIS WAS NO DOUBT WELCOME BY THOSE IN THE AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY WHO WERE NEGATIVELY IMPACTED BY LAST SPRING`S RELENTLESS RAIN. SNOWFALL TOTALED 3.4 INCHES WHICH IS 1.7 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS TIES (2017) AS THE 46TH LEAST ON RECORD. A MONTH-BY-MONTH SUMMARY IS BELOW. BROWN MARCH ...AN UNREMARKABLE MONTH... MARCH BEGAN ON A WARM NOTE, WITH SEVERAL DAYS SEEING A DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE ABOVE NORMAL. HIGHS IN THE 50S WERE COMMON WITH A COUPLE OF DAYS IN THE LOW-TO-MID-60S. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR MARCH 9TH WAS 54 DEGREES; 18 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. NOTABLY COLDER AIR ARRIVED LATER ON, WITH HIGHS IN THE 30S AND LOWS IN THE 20S ON THE 21ST AND 22ND. SNOW ARRIVED ALONG WITH THE COLD AIR. 1.2 INCHES OF SNOW WAS REPORTED THROUGH THE 22ND AND 23RD. ONE MORE BOUT OF WARMTH WAS REALIZED BEGINNING ON THE 25TH, BEFORE A STRONG STORM SYSTEM BROUGHT COOLER AIR BACK TO THE AREA ON THE 29TH WITH A PEAK WIND GUST OF 61 MPH OBSERVED. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 41.1 DEGREES, WHICH IS 3.4 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 30TH WARMEST MARCH. PRECIPITATION FOR TOTALED 3.20 INCHES, WHICH IS 0.49 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 48TH WETTEST MARCH. THE GREATEST SINGLE- DAY TOTAL WAS 0.90 INCHES ON THE 18TH. SNOWFALL FOR THE MONTH WAS 1.9 INCHES, WHICH IS 2.2 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. MOST OF THIS SNOW FELL ON THE 14TH AND 22ND, WHEN 0.6 AND 1.1 INCHES OF SNOW (RESPECTIVELY) WAS OBSERVED. THIS RANKS AS THE 35TH LEAST SNOWIEST MARCH. BROWN APRIL ...A COOL PATTERN OUTWEIGHS HINTS OF SPRINGTIME WARMTH... THOSE DREAMING OF MILD SPRING DAYS OUTDOORS WERE LARGELY DISAPPOINTED BY APRIL 2020, WHICH SAW AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 47.0 DEGREES. THIS IS 3.0 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL, AND TIES AS THE 27TH COLDEST ON RECORD. FOLLOWING THE WARMEST DAY OF THE MONTH, 77 DEGREES ON THE 7TH, COLDER-THAN-NORMAL DAYS OUTNUMBERED WARMER-THAN- NORMAL DAYS. FROM THE 9TH THROUGH THE 30TH, 19 OF 22 DAYS SAW AN AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE BELOW NORMAL. THIS 22-DAY PERIOD TIES FOR THE 8TH COLDEST ON RECORD WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 45.3 DEGREES. (APRIL 8TH SAW AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 61 DEGREES, 14 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL). ONE TEMPERATURE RECORD WAS BROKEN THIS MONTH: A RECORD LOW OF 22 DEGREES ON APRIL 16TH BROKE THE RECORD OF 23 DEGREES IN 2014. THE TOTAL PRECIPITATION OF 2.28 INCHES IS 1.24 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 35TH DRIEST ON RECORD. THE GREATEST SINGLE-DAY PRECIPITATION TOTAL WAS APRIL 7TH; 0.99 INCHES OBSERVED. THE TOTAL SNOWFALL FOR THE MONTH WAS 1.5 INCHES, WHICH IS 0.5 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS TIES AS THE 30TH SNOWIEST APRIL ON RECORD. BROWN MAY ...A COLD START GIVES WAY TO SUMMER-LIKE WARMTH... LOWS IN THE 20S, A FEW SNOWFLAKES, AND HIGHS IN THE 40S ARE SOME OF THE DISTANT MEMORIES OF HOW MAY 2020 BEGAN. FROM THE 1ST THROUGH 15TH, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 51.7 DEGREES WHICH RANKS AS THE 10TH COLDEST ON RECORD. A FEW RECORDS WERE BROKEN DURING THIS TIME. ON MAY 8TH, A LOW OF 29 TIED THE RECORD SET IN 1947. A REPEAT PERFORMANCE OCCURRED THE FOLLOWING DAY. ON MAY 9TH, A RECORD LOW OF 23 WAS OBSERVED WHICH BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 27 IN 1947. THIS RECORD LOW OF 23 IS ALSO THE COLDEST MAY TEMPERATURE ON RECORD AT FORT WAYNE. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 27 DEGREES WHICH OCCURRED IN 2005 (5/4), 1966 (5/10), 1963 (5/1), AND 1947 (5/9). WHILE ON THE SUBJECT OF COLD, MAY 11TH BROUGHT AT LEAST A FEW SNOWFLAKES OR EVEN PELLETS OF GRAUPEL. THE WEATHER PATTERN TURNED NOTABLY WARMER IN TIME FOR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND AS TEMPERATURES SOARED INTO THE 80S, AND EVEN REACHED 91 DEGREES ON THE 26TH. USING JANUARY 1 AS A STARTING POINT, THIS TIES AS THE 14TH EARLIEST 90+ DEGREE DAY. THIS WAS ONE MONTH EARLIER THAN LAST YEAR`S FIRST 90 DEGREE DAY; JUNE 26TH. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH WAS 58.6 DEGREES, WHICH IS 1.8 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 45TH COLDEST ON RECORD. PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH TOTALED 3.68 INCHES, WHICH IS 0.59 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS TIES 1951 AS THE 63RD DRIEST ON RECORD. BROWN $$