Climatological Report (Seasonal)
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
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000 CXUS53 KIWX 011449 CLSFWA CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 949 AM EST TUE DEC 01 2020 ................................... ...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE SEASON, FROM 9/1/2020 TO 11/30/2020... 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 100 09/02/1953 09/01/1953 LOW 11/30/1958 11/25/1950 11/24/1950 HIGHEST 84 09/08 MM MM 89 LOWEST 21 11/14 MM MM 6 AVG. MAXIMUM 64.1 63.1 1.0 62.7 AVG. MINIMUM 42.4 42.4 0.0 42.9 MEAN 53.3 52.8 0.5 DAYS MAX >= 90 0 1.2 -1.2 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 0 1.4 -1.4 2 DAYS MIN <= 32 19 18.7 0.3 22 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 16.47 1992 MINIMUM 2.89 1964 TOTALS 10.78 8.73 2.05 7.93 DAILY AVG. 0.12 0.10 0.02 0.09 DAYS >= .01 26 30.0 -4.0 28 DAYS >= .10 20 17.9 2.1 14 DAYS >= .50 9 5.7 3.3 6 DAYS >= 1.00 4 1.9 2.1 2 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 2.33 09/07 TO 09/08 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 14.1 1950 24 HR TOTAL 0.6 11/30 TOTALS 1.0 2.1 -1.1 6.9 SINCE 7/1 1.0 2.1 -1.1 MM SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 0 DAYS >= TRACE 3 2.8 0.2 6 DAYS >= 1.0 0 0.6 -0.6 2 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 0 3 24 HR TOTAL 0.6 11/30 TO 11/30 DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 1105 1205 -100 1244 SINCE 7/1 1109 1217 -108 MM COOLING TOTAL 61 92 -31 156 SINCE 1/1 938 809 129 994 .............................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 8.8 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 46/250 DATE 11/15 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 63/260 DATE 11/15 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.58 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 25 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 34 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 32 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 72 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 7 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 8 RAIN 12 LIGHT RAIN 39 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 1 LIGHT SNOW 3 SLEET 0 FOG 40 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. && ...DROUGHT RELIEF... MUCH WELCOME RAINFALL OCCURRED THROUGH THE FALL TO EASE DROUGHT CONDITIONS THAT HAD DEVELOPED OVER THE SUMMER. PRECIPITATION TOTALED 10.78 INCHES WHICH IS 2.05 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 18TH WETTEST ON RECORD. LOOKING BACK, 2016 EXCEEDED THIS WITH 11.25 INCHES. ACCORDING TO THE U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR, CONDITIONS IMPROVED FROM SEPTEMBER 1 TO NOVEMBER 24 ACROSS MUCH OF ALLEN COUNTY (IN) AND POINTS SOUTHEAST. NEARLY THE ENTIRE AREA WAS EXPERIENCING AT LEAST "ABNORMALLY DRY" CONDITIONS TO START. BY THE END OF NOVEMBER, ONLY NORTHERN ALLEN COUNTY WAS LABELED AS "ABNORMALLY DRY". THIS IS A RESULT OF STORM TRACKS THAT HAVE ROUTINELY FAVORED THESE SOUTHEAST AREAS. DESPITE BOUTS OF MEMORABLE WARMTH, TEMPERATURES FOR THE SEASON WERE GENERALLY NEAR NORMAL. THE MEAN TEMPERATURE OF 53.3 DEGREES IS 0.5 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. SNOW TOTALED ONLY 1.0 INCH WHICH ACCUMULATED ON NOVEMBER 22ND (0.4") AND THE 30TH (0.6"). THIS IS 1.1 INCHES BELOW NORMAL AND TIES AS THE 29TH LEAST SNOWIEST ON RECORD. BY COMPARISON, FALL 2019 RECORDED 6.9 INCHES OF SNOW. A MONTH BY MONTH SUMMARY IS BELOW. SEPTEMBER ...SOAKING RAIN TO START, THEN DRY FOR TWO WEEKS... A SOAKING RAIN ON THE 7TH AND 8TH HELPED TO EASE DROUGHT CONDITIONS IN FORT WAYNE AND COMMUNITIES TO THE SOUTH. RAINFALL ON THOSE TWO DATES MEASURED 2.40". COMMUNITIES THAT MISSED OUT ON THIS RAINFALL CONTINUED TO EXPERIENCE EITHER "ABNORMALLY DRY" OR "MODERATE DROUGHT" CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO THE US DROUGHT MONITOR. THERE WAS A PROLONGED DRY STRETCH FROM THE 14TH THROUGH 27TH. RAINFALL FOR THE MONTH TOTALED 3.33". THIS IS 0.53" ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 42ND WETTEST ON RECORD. ONE RAINFALL RECORD WAS SET THIS MONTH. TOTAL RAINFALL OF 1.34" ON THE 7TH BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 1.19" IN 2012. ALSO NOTABLE THIS MONTH WERE THE TEMPERATURE SWINGS. THE DAILY MEAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE DEPARTURE RANGED FROM 11 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL ON THE 19TH TO 10 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL ON THE 27TH. ALL TOLD, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 63.2 DEGREES WHICH IS 1.1 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS TIES AS THE 36TH COLDEST SEPTEMBER. OCTOBER ...A DRY START TO THE MONTH, THEN A WET LATE MONTH... OCTOBER BEGAN WITH A STRETCH OF BELOW-NORMAL TEMPERATURES, AND A QUICK DOSE OF RAIN ON THE 4TH; 0.58 INCHES. AS TEMPERATURES WARMED TO ABOVE NORMAL BEGINNING ON THE 6TH, THE NEXT BOUT OF RAIN WOULD NOT BE REALIZED UNTIL THE 12TH. AS A RESULT OF CONTINUED DRYNESS, DROUGHT CONDITIONS WERE UNCHANGED FOR MUCH OF OCTOBER. THAT IS, SOUTHERN MICHIGAN INTO NORTHWEST OHIO WAS SAID TO BE "ABNORMALLY DRY" ACCORDING TO THE U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR. MEANWHILE, WESTERN WILLIAMS COUNTY, OHIO THROUGH WHITE COUNTY, INDIANA WERE LABELED AS "MODERATE DROUGHT". A ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS ON THE 12TH PRODUCED A 48 MPH WIND GUST AT THE AIRPORT BUT THE RAINFALL OF 0.22 INCHES WAS NOT ENOUGH TO EASE THE DROUGHT CONDITIONS. DROUGHT CONDITIONS IMPROVED SLIGHTLY DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE MONTH. FROM THE 18TH THROUGH 23RD, 3.31 INCHES OF RAIN WAS OBSERVED. AN ADDITIONAL 0.38 INCHES WAS OBSERVED FROM THE THE 27TH THROUGH 29TH. THIS STRETCH OF WET WEATHER EASED THE DROUGHT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO AND ALLEN COUNTY, INDIANA. TEMPERATURES TURNED NOTABLY COOLER FOR THE END OF THE MONTH AS WELL, WITH A BELOW-NORMAL MEAN TEMPERATURE ON 13 OF THE FINAL 17 DAYS. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE OF ONLY 44 DEGREES ON THE 27TH NEARLY BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 39 DEGREES SET IN 1925. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 51.5 DEGREES WHICH IS 1.1 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 36TH COLDEST ON RECORD. TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH WAS 4.55 INCHES WHICH IS 1.71 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 14TH WETTEST OCTOBER. NO SNOW WAS OBSERVED THIS MONTH. THE NORMAL FOR OCTOBER IS 0.3 INCHES. NOVEMBER ...13TH WARMEST NOVEMBER... NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 2020 WILL BE REMEMBERED AS A WARM ONE! THE 3RD THROUGH 10TH FEATURED HIGHS IN THE UPPER-60S AND UPPER-70S. THERE WAS ONE MORE BOUT OF WARMTH ON THE 19TH AND 20TH WITH HIGHS IN THE 60S. NINE DAYS HAD DOUBLE-DIGIT DAILY MEAN TEMPERATURE DEPARTURES ABOVE NORMAL. ALL OF THIS RESULTED IN THE 13TH WARMEST NOVEMBER. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 45.1 DEGREES, WHICH IS 3.7 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS WAS NEARLY AS WARM AS NOVEMBER 2016 WHICH OBSERVED AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 46.0 DEGREES. A NUMBER OF TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE BROKEN THIS MONTH. THE BREAK DOWN IS BELOW: 11/08: H:78. (PREVIOUS 73, 1915) 11/09: H:77.(74, 1975) 11/10: H:76. (70, 1964). L:57. (52, 2002) THE RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE ON NOVEMBER 8TH IS NOTEWORTHY BECAUSE IS IS THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE RECORDED SO LATE IN THE CALENDAR YEAR. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 78 DEGREES SET ON NOVEMBER 6TH, 1975. UNLIKE SOUTH BEND, THIS UNSEASONABLE WARMTH WAS PAIRED WITH NEAR- NORMAL PRECIPITATION. PRECIPITATION TOTALED 2.90 INCHES WHICH IS 0.19 INCH BELOW NORMAL. AS A RESULT OF A SOAKING RAIN ON THE 22ND AND 25TH, THE U.S DROUGHT MONITOR IMPROVED CONDITIONS OVER THE GREATER FORT WAYNE AREA AND POINTS SOUTH. THERE WERE TWO INSTANCES OF MEASURABLE SNOW THIS MONTH. THIS TOTALED 1.0 INCHES AND IS 0.8 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 66TH LEAST SNOWIEST NOVEMBER. BROWN/ROLLER $$