Climatological Report (Seasonal)
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
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672 CXUS53 KIWX 011615 CLSFWA CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 1215 PM EDT SAT JUN 01 2024 ................................... ...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE SEASON, FROM 3/1/2024 TO 5/31/2024... 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 NORMAL .............................................................. TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 97 05/28/2018 LOW -10 03/01/1967 HIGHEST 90 05/21 MM MM 90 LOWEST 21 03/21 MM MM 18 AVG. MAXIMUM 65.1 60.3 4.8 61.5 AVG. MINIMUM 44.6 39.7 4.9 39.0 MEAN 54.8 50.0 4.8 DAYS MAX >= 90 1 1.1 -0.1 1 DAYS MAX <= 32 0 2.7 -2.7 1 DAYS MIN <= 32 16 27.8 -11.8 28 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.1 -0.1 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 18.50 2011 MINIMUM 5.07 1958 TOTALS 15.93 11.13 4.80 10.88 DAILY AVG. 0.17 0.12 0.05 0.12 DAYS >= .01 39 38.6 0.4 35 DAYS >= .10 28 22.1 5.9 20 DAYS >= .50 10 7.1 2.9 7 DAYS >= 1.00 4 2.3 1.7 4 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 2.12 03/14 TO 03/14 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 19.5 1964 24 HR TOTAL 4.2 04/20/2021 TO 04/20/2021 TOTALS 0.7 5.4 -4.7 4.1 SINCE 7/1 11.6 33.6 -22.0 21.7 SNOWDEPTH AVG. T 0 DAYS >= TRACE 6 5.7 0.3 10 DAYS >= 1.0 0 1.8 -1.8 2 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH T 1 24 HR TOTAL 0.4 DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 1019 1448 -429 1389 SINCE 7/1 4832 5943 -1111 5347 COOLING TOTAL 102 69 33 57 SINCE 1/1 102 70 32 57 .............................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 10.2 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 45/230 DATE 05/24 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 59/230 DATE 05/24 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.66 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 10 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 51 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 31 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 67 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 19 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 12 RAIN 22 LIGHT RAIN 42 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 1 HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 0 LIGHT SNOW 6 SLEET 1 FOG 41 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. && ...TOP 5 WARMEST AND WETTEST SPRING ON RECORD... SPRING 2024 WILL CERTAINLY BE REMEMBERED AS BEING WARM AND WET, THANKS TO THE ONGOING TRANSITION FROM EL NINO TO LA NINA. MARCH, APRIL, AND MAY ALL HAD AVERAGE TEMPERATURES WELL ABOVE NORMAL. IT WASN`T JUST DAYTIME HIGHS THAT WERE WARM THIS SPRING, BUT ALSO THE LACK OF COOLING OVERNIGHT AS WELL. NUMEROUS DAYS OF OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE 50S AND 60S HELPED CONTRIBUTE TO A WARMER THAN USUAL SPRING. FORT WAYNE SAW ITS FIRST 90+ DEGREE DAY OF THE YEAR ON MAY 21ST, WHICH IS ABOUT 3 WEEKS EARLIER THAN AVERAGE (AVERAGE FIRST 90+ DEGREE DAY OCCURS JUNE 13TH). OVERALL, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR SPRING 2024 WAS 54.8 DEGREES, WHICH IS 4.8 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL! THIS WAS THE 4TH WARMEST SPRING SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1897 AND THE WARMEST SPRING SINCE 2012. UNLIKE THE FLASH DROUGHT THAT WAS ONGOING THIS TIME LAST YEAR, A SOGGY, WET SPRING THIS YEAR LED TO SEVERAL INSTANCES OF STANDING WATER IN FIELDS, LEADING TO A DELAY IN SPRING PLANTING FOR MANY AREA FARMERS. FORT WAYNE RECIEVED 15.93" OF PRECIPITATION THIS SPRING, WHICH WAS 4.80" ABOVE NORMAL! THIS WAS THE WETTEST SPRING SINCE SINCE 16.98" FELL IN 2017. SPRING 2024 IS THE 4TH WETTEST SPRING ON RECORD. SPRING SEVERE WEATHER PEAKED ON MAY 7TH WHEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED 7 TORNADOES, LARGE HAIL, AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THIS WAS THE GREATEST SINGLE-DAY TORNADO OUTBREAK IN OUR FORECAST AREA SINCE 13 TORNADOES OCCURRED ON MARCH 31, 2023. UNSURPRISINGLY, DUE TO THE WARM TEMPERATURES, THERE WAS A LACK OF SNOWFALL THIS SPRING. A RECORD LACK OF ICE COVER ON THE GREAT LAKES KEPT FORT WAYNE MAINLY SNOW-FREE THIS SPRING. ONLY 0.7" WAS RECORDED, WHICH IS 4.7" BELOW NORMAL AND THE 14TH LEAST SNOWIEST SPRING ON RECORD. THIS WAS THE LEAST SNOWIEST SPRING SINCE 0.3" WAS MEASURED IN SPRING 2012. A MONTH-BY-MONTH SUMMARY IS BELOW. MARCH 2024 ...A WET AND TOP 10 WARMEST START TO SPRING... MUCH LIKE FEBRUARY, ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES CONTINUED THROUGH MARCH, ESPECIALLY DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE MONTH. 14 OF THE FIRST 15 DAYS OF MARCH HAD AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE ABOVE NORMAL. TYPICALLY, THERE ARE 6 DAYS WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE AT OR ABOVE 60 DEGREES IN MARCH; THIS YEAR, THERE WERE 11 60+ DEGREE DAYS IN FORT WAYNE (THIS INCLUDES TWO DAYS WITH HIGHS IN THE 70S). ONE NEW HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORD WAS SET THIS MONTH; THE HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 73 DEGREES ON MARCH 13 TIED THE RECORD DAILY HIGH SET IN 2007. OVERALL, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR MARCH WAS 44.8 DEGREES, WHICH IS 6.2 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS WAS THE WARMEST MARCH SINCE 2012. MARCH 2024 RANKS AS THE 7TH WARMEST MARCH ON RECORD. RECORDS DATE BACK TO 1897. ALTHOUGH MANY DAYS THIS MONTH DID NOT HAVE MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION, THE MONTH OVERALL WAS STILL ABOVE AVERAGE. THIS IS BECAUSE MUCH OF THE MONTH`S RAINFALL FELL IN ONE DAY! MARCH 14TH MEASURED 2.12"! THIS WAS THE MOST RAIN IN 24 HOURS IN FORT WAYNE SINCE JULY 5, 2022, WHICH HAD 2.83". MARCH 14TH ALSO SET A NEW DAILY RAINFALL RECORD, BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 0.94" SET IN 1997. MARCH 14, 2024 WAS THE 5TH WETTEST MARCH DAY ON RECORD! OVERALL, THE MONTH TOTALED 4.12 INCHES OF RAIN, WHICH IS 1.31 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS WAS THE 25TH WETTEST MARCH ON RECORD. DUE TO THE WARM TEMPERATURES, SNOWFALL WAS NOTABLY LACKING IN MARCH. ONLY 0.7" OF SNOW WAS MEASURED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MONTH, WHICH IS 3.9" BELOW AVERAGE. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL OCCASIONS WHERE ONLY A TRACE OF SNOW HAS BEEN RECORDED IN MARCH, SO THIS IS NOT A RECORD. MARCH 2024 TIES FOR THE 22ND LEAST SNOWIEST ON RECORD AND IS THE LEAST SNOWIEST MARCH SINCE 2021. APRIL 2024 ....WETTEST APRIL ON RECORD, 12TH WARMEST.... IN TYPICAL SPRING FASHION, APRIL FEATURED LOTS OF TEMPERATURE SWINGS AND FLUCTUATIONS. THERE WERE 10 DAYS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES 70+ DEGREES THIS MONTH AND THERE WERE ALSO 4 DAYS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE 40S THIS MONTH. MILD NIGHTS CONTRIBUTED TO APRIL 2024 BEING WARMER THAN NORMAL, WITH SEVERAL NIGHTS WITH LOWS IN THE 50S AND 60S. A NEW RECORD WARM LOW TEMPERATURE OF 62 DEGREES WAS SET ON APRIL 29TH, BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 61 DEGREES SET IN 1991. OVERALL, THE MONTH FINISHED WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 53.5 DEGREES, WHICH IS 3.3 DEGREES WARMER THAN NORMAL. THIS WAS THE 12TH WARMEST APRIL AND THE WARMEST APRIL SINCE 2017. A SERIES OF LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS PASSING THROUGH THE MIDWEST LED TO A VERY WET AND SOGGY APRIL. IN FACT, FORT WAYNE HAD THE WETTEST APRIL ON RECORD! OVER 7 INCHES OF RAIN FELL, WHICH HAS ONLY HAPPENED 4 TIMES IN APRIL SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1897. OTHER APRILS WITH OVER 7 INCHES OF RAINFALL INCLUDE 1944, 1957, AND 2013. TWO DAYS THIS MONTH HAD OVER AN INCH OF RAINFALL; APRIL 1ST AND APRIL 11TH. A NEW DAILY RECORD RAINFALL OF 1.81 INCHES WAS SET ON APRIL 1ST, WHICH BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 1.69 INCHES SET IN 1959. IN TOTAL, 7.39 INCHES OF RAIN FELL THIS MONTH, WHICH IS 3.65 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL AND NEARLY DOUBLE THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TOTAL! APRIL WAS THE WETTEST MONTH SINCE AUGUST 2018 WHEN 7.77 INCHES OF RAIN FELL. IN ADDITION, THIS WAS THE WETTEST APRIL SINCE 2013 WHEN 7.10 INCHES OF RAIN FELL. THE PREVIOUS APRIL MONTHLY RECORD RAINFALL WAS 7.19 INCHES IN 1944. THERE WAS ONLY A TRACE OF SNOW THIS MONTH, WHICH IS UNSURPRISING GIVEN THE WARM TEMPERATURES. THIS IS 0.8 INCHES BELOW AVERAGE. APRIL 2024 IS TIED FOR THE 10TH LEAST SNOWIEST APRIL ON RECORD. THE LAST TIME MEASURABLE SNOW OCCURRED IN APRIL WAS IN 2022. MAY 2024 ...10TH WARMEST MAY ON RECORD... PICKING UP WHERE APRIL ENDED, MAY BEGAN UNSEASONABLY WARM WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES CROSS THE 80-DEGREE MARK ON THE 1ST AND 2ND. THE MONTH WAS MILD OVERALL WITH ONLY SIX DATES RECORDING AN AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE DEPARTURE BELOW NORMAL. THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE THIS MONTH, 90 DEGREES ON THE 21ST, WAS THE 20TH EARLIEST 90-DEGREE DAY ON RECORD. THIS WAS ALSO TWO DEGREES SHY OF THE RECORD SET IN 1977. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS XX.X DEGREES WHICH IS X.X DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE XX WARMEST ON RECORD. RAINFALL TOTALED 4.42 INCHES, JUST 0.16 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS TIES 1981 AND 1928 AS THE 32TH WETTEST ON RECORD. THE MAXIMUM DAILY TOTAL WAS 1.38 INCHES ON THE 7TH. NO RECORD WERE SET THIS MONTH. BROWN/JOHNSON $$