Climatological Report (Annual)
Issued by NWS
Issued by NWS
000 CXUS53 KIWX 011447 CLASBN CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 915 AM EST WED JAN 1 2020 ................................... ...THE SOUTH BEND CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR OF 2019... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1893 TO 2019 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE NORMAL ............................................................. TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 109 07/24/1934 LOW -22 01/20/1943 01/25/1897 HIGHEST 93 07/20 MM MM 94 LOWEST -20 01/31 MM MM -15 01/30 AVG. MAXIMUM 58.3 58.8 -0.5 58.2 AVG. MINIMUM 40.3 40.8 -0.5 40.5 MEAN 49.3 49.8 -0.5 DAYS MAX >= 90 9 9.7 -0.7 18 DAYS MAX <= 32 49 44.6 4.4 44 DAYS MIN <= 32 131 122.7 8.3 149 DAYS MIN <= 0 7 5.3 1.7 7 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 55.61 1990 MINIMUM 25.15 1963 TOTALS 44.33 38.00 6.33 50.03 DAILY AVG. 0.12 0.10 0.02 0.14 DAYS >= .01 149 145.4 3.6 163 DAYS >= .10 98 78.3 19.7 93 DAYS >= .50 29 23.4 5.6 35 DAYS >= 1.00 8 7.2 0.8 8 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 141.7 1978 TOTALS 43.6 66.6 -23.0 73.6 SINCE 7/1 10.9 22.5 -11.6 12.9 SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 MM MM 1 DAYS >= TRACE 74 44.9 29.1 72 DAYS >= 1.0 12 20.4 -8.4 24 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 10 01/29 15 DEGREE_DAYS HEATING TOTAL 6377 6298 79 6514 SINCE 7/1 MM 2391 MM MM COOLING TOTAL 779 773 6 941 SINCE 1/1 779 773 6 941 .............................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 9.0 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 43/260 DATE 02/24 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 58/270 DATE 02/24 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.50 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 140 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 121 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 104 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 73 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH 0 61 1 0 13 1 23 HAZE 81 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && ...WETTER THAN NORMAL, WITH NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES... THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS 49.3 DEGREES, WHICH IS NEAR THE NORMAL OF 49.8 DEGREES. THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS 93 DEGREES ON JULY 20TH. THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS -20 DEGREES ON JANUARY 30TH AND 31ST. THAT COLD ON JANUARY 30TH HELPED TO MAKE IT THE 3RD COLDEST AVERAGE TEMPERATURE (-13.0) FOR THE PERIOD OF RECORD. THERE WERE 9 DAYS WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 90 DEGREES OR WARMER, WHICH IS ABOUT 8 DAYS BELOW NORMAL. THERE WERE 131 DAYS WITH A LOW TEMPERATURE AT OR BELOW FREEZING. THIS WAS ABOUT 4 DAYS MORE THAN NORMAL. THERE WERE 7 DAYS WITH A LOW TEMPERATURE BELOW ZERO, WHICH IS ABOUT 1 DAY BELOW NORMAL. THE TOTAL PRECIPITAITON FOR THE YEAR WAS 44.33 INCHES, THIS IS 6.33 INCHES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 38 INCHES. THIS RANKS AS THE 17TH WETTEST YEAR ON RECORD. NOTE THAT 2018 SAW 50.03 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION, WHICH WAS THE 3RD WETTEST YEAR ON RECORD. THERE WERE THERE WERE 8 DAYS THIS YEAR WITH 1 OR MORE INCHES OF PRECIPITATION, ABOUT 1 DAY MORE THAN NORMAL. THERE WAS ONE DAY WITH 2 INCHES OR MORE, WHICH IS THE NEAR THE NORMAL OF 1 DAY WITH 2 INCHES OR MORE OF RAINFALL. SEPTEMBER 27TH WAS THE DAY WHEN 2.95 INCHES WAS OBSERVED, WHICH WAS THE 25TH MOST AMOUNT OF RAIN FOR A SINGLE DAY IN SOUTH BEND`S PERIOD OF RECORD. TOTAL SNOWFALL FOR THE YEAR WAS 43.6 INCHES, WHICH IS 23 INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL OF 66.6 INCHES. THERE WERE 12 DAYS WITH AN INCH OR MORE OF SNOW, ABOUT 7 DAYS BELOW NORMAL. BELOW IS A MONTHLY SUMMARY FOR 2019. JANUARY ...THE END OF JANUARY WAS ABOMINABLE... JANUARY BEGAN MILD, TRENDED TOWARD NORMAL MID MONTH, BUT THEN ENDED ABOMINABLY COLD WITH TEMPERATURES AND WIND CHILLS NOT SEEN IN THIS REGION FOR DECADES. EVERYONES FAVORITE TERM, THE POLAR VORTEX, HELPED SEND BITTERLY COLD AIR SOUTH FROM THE ARCTIC RIGHT INTO THE HEART OF THE GREAT LAKES TO END THE MONTH. THE DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE AT SOUTH BEND ON THE 30TH WAS 38 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL WHILE ON THE 31ST IT WAS 35 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THESE DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL ARE ESPECIALLY IMPRESSIVE WHEN YOU FACTOR IN THAT THIS IS NORMALLY THE COLDEST TIME OF THE YEAR ANYWAY. WIND CHILLS DURING THESE TWO DAYS REACHED TO BETWEEN 40 BELOW AND 50 BELOW ZERO WHILE ACTUAL AIR TEMPERATURES IN THE REGION FELL TO BETWEEN 15 BELOW AND 25 BELOW ZERO. THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE MEASURED AT SOUTH BEND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS 20 BELOW ZERO WHILE THE COLDEST WIND CHILL WAS 48 BELOW ZERO. THROUGH THE FIRST 18 DAYS OF JANUARY, THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE WAS 29.4 DEGREES, 4.9 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FROM THE 19TH TO THE 31ST WAS JUST 9.2 DEGREES. THIS RANKED AS THE 4TH COLDEST AVERAGE TEMPERATURE ON RECORD FOR THIS PERIOD TO END JANUARY. THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 54 DEGREES ON THE 7TH AND THE COLDEST WAS 20 DEGREES BELOW ZERO ON THE 30TH AND 31ST. THIS WAS A 74 DEGREE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MONTHLY HIGH AND LOW TEMPERATURE. THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE FOR ALL OF JANUARY 2019 ENDED UP BEING 21.0 DEGREES, 3.4 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 31ST COLDEST JANUARY ON RECORD. PRECIPITATION FOR JANUARY WAS 1.78 INCHES, 0.51 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 50TH DRIEST JANUARY ON RECORD. DESPITE THE BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION, SNOWFALL WAS ABOVE NORMAL. TOTAL SNOWFALL WAS 23.9 INCHES, 3.3 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 31ST SNOWIEST JANUARY ON RECORD. SEVERAL DAILY RECORDS WERE SET IN JANUARY. A DAILY RECORD SNOWFALL OF 6.7 INCHES OCCURRED ON THE 28TH. RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES WERE BROKE ON THE 30TH AND 31ST WITH A LOW OF 20 DEGREES BELOW ZERO ON BOTH DAYS. NEW RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES WERE ALSO SET ON THESE DAYS, WITH A HIGH OF JUST 6 BELOW ZERO ON THE 30TH AND 0 ON THE 31ST. FEBRUARY ...SURPRISE, FEBRUARY WAS NEAR NORMAL... DESPITE SEVERAL DAYS OF HIGH WINDS, FREEZING RAIN AND ICE, FEBRUARY ACTUALLY ENDED UP WITH NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES, NEAR NORMAL PRECIPITATION AND BELOW NORMAL SNOWFALL. SO WHY DID IT SEEM LIKE A COLD, WINTRY MONTH? IT WAS LIKELY DUE TO NUMEROUS WEATHER SYSTEMS PRODUCING A MIX OF WINTRY PRECIPITATION AS WELL AS MOSTLY CLOUDY AND DREARY DAYS. THE BRIEF BUT BRUTALLY COLD ARCTIC INTRUSION THAT ENDED JANUARY CARRIED OVER TO START FEBRUARY BUT ONLY BRIEFLY. THE MONTH BEGAN WITH A LOW TEMPERATURE OF ZERO BUT BY THE 3RD DAY OF THE MONTH, HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE NEAR 50 DEGREES AND ACTUALLY REACHED 50 DEGREES ON THE 4TH. BASED ON A SEARCH OF CLIMATOLOGICAL RECORDS, THE TEMPERATURE CHANGE OF 67 DEGREES OVER JUST 3 DAYS FROM A LOW OF 20 DEGREES BELOW ZERO ON JANUARY 31ST TO A HIGH OF 47 ON FEBRUARY 3RD WAS THE GREATEST TEMPERATURE CHANGE EVER RECORDED IN JUST 3 DAYS IN THE SOUTH BEND AREA. SOUTH BEND ALSO RECORDED THE LARGEST TEMPERATURE CHANGE ON RECORD OVER A 4 DAY PERIOD, GOING FROM A LOW OF 20 BELOW ZERO ON THE 31ST OF JANUARY TO A HIGH OF 50 ON THE 4TH. THIS 70 DEGREE TEMPERATURE CHANGE IN JUST 4 DAYS SURPASSED THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 68 DEGREES SET IN JANUARY 1943. THE REMAINDER OF FEBRUARY WOULD SEE A ROLLER COASTER RIDE WITH TEMPERATURES OSCILLATING BETWEEN ABOVE AND BELOW NORMAL AS SEVERAL WEAK LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS WOULD MOVE THROUGH THE REGION EVERY COUPLE OF DAYS. THE LONGEST STRETCH OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES WAS JUST 5 DAYS FROM THE 3RD THROUGH THE 7TH WHILE THE LONGEST STRETCH OF BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES WAS 4 DAYS FROM THE 16TH THROUGH THE 19TH, AND AGAIN FROM THE 25TH THROUGH THE 28TH. SEVERAL FAST MOVING CLIPPER SYSTEMS WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN COUPLED WITH A LACK OF DEEP COLD AIR IN THE GREAT LAKES ALLOWED PRECIPITATION ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS TO FALL AS RAIN DURING THE MONTH. THE TIMING OF THESE SYSTEMS WERE OFTEN LATE AT NIGHT INTO THE MORNING DAYLIGHT HOURS WHEN SURFACE TEMPERATURES WERE NEAR OR BELOW FREEZING. THIS LED TO FREEZING RAIN AT THE SURFACE AND GENERALLY LIGHT ICE ACCUMULATIONS. THE EXCEPTION WAS ON FEBRUARY 12TH WHEN FREEZING RAIN LED TO WIDESPREAD ICE ACCUMULATIONS BETWEEN ONE AND TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH AND SOME REPORTS BETWEEN TWO TENTHS AND THREE TENTHS OF AN INCH. HIGH WINDS ALSO OCCURRED SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE MONTH. THE DAILY PEAK WIND SPEED AT SOUTH BEND EXCEEDED 40 MPH ON THE 7TH, 8TH, 13TH, 24TH AND 25TH. THE WIND EVENT ON THE 24TH WAS A HISTORIC AND LIKELY UNPRECEDENTED EVENT AS WIND GUSTS EXCEEDED 50 MPH DURING MUCH OF THE DAY. THE TOP RECORDED GUST WAS 58 MPH. OVERALL TEMPERATURES WERE SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL, SNOWFALL WAS WELL BELOW NORMAL AND PRECIPITATION WAS SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE WAS 27.3, 0.5 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 67TH COLDEST FEBRUARY ON RECORD. PRECIPITATION WAS 2.21 INCHES, 0.26 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 33RD WETTEST FEBRUARY. SNOWFALL WAS JUST 7.3 INCHES, 7.7 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 38TH LEAST SNOWIEST FEBRUARY. MARCH ...A VERY COOL MARCH, AND WE DON`T MEAN IT WAS POPULAR... MARCH BEGAN WITH VERY CHILLY TEMPERATURES AND SOME SNOW DURING THE FIRST WEEK, AND IT ENDED VERY MUCH THE SAME WAY. AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURES WERE BETWEEN 10 AND 25 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL FROM THE 3RD TO THE 7TH WITH LIGHT SNOW AT TIMES. A RECORD COLD MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OCCURRED ON BOTH MARCH 4TH AND 5TH WITH A HIGH OF ONLY 14 AND 19 DEGREES RESPECTIVELY. THE PERIOD OF MARCH 1ST THROUGH MARCH 7TH WAS THE 7TH COLDEST ON RECORD FOR THIS STRETCH OF DAYS. WHILE THE REMAINDER OF MARCH WOULD REMAIN COLD, DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL WOULD NOT REACH MORE THAN 7 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL UNTIL THE FINAL DAY OF THE MONTH, WHICH WAS 16 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. A TOTAL OF 23 OUT OF 31 DAYS EXPERIENCED BELOW NORMAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURES. THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE FOR MARCH WAS 33.0 DEGREES, 4.5 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 29TH COLDEST MARCH ON RECORD. THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE WAS 67 ON THE 14TH AND THE COLDEST WAS 2 DEGREES ON THE 4TH. THERE WERE 25 DAYS WITH A MINIMUM TEMPERATURE 32 DEGREES OR COLDER. THIS IS ABOUT 5 DAYS GREATER THAN NORMAL FOR MARCH. THERE WERE ALSO 6 DAYS WITH A MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 32 DEGREES OR COLDER AND THIS WAS ABOUT 3 DAYS GREATER THAN NORMAL. PRECIPITATION FOR MARCH WAS SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL WITH 2.84 INCHES, 0.42 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 49TH WETTEST MARCH ON RECORD. MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION FELL ON 12 DAYS. SNOWFALL WAS WELL BELOW NORMAL WITH 0.5 INCHES, 6.6 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS WAS THE 10TH LEAST SNOWIEST MARCH ON RECORD. THE 0.5 INCH MONTHLY SNOWFALL TOTAL IS ACTUALLY THE 3RD LEAST AMOUNT EVER MEASURED IN MARCH (6 OF THE PREVIOUS RECORD YEARS SAW JUST A TRACE MEASURED AND 3 OF THE YEARS HAD JUST 0.1 INCH FOR THE MONTHLY TOTALS). APRIL ...A SOAKING END... APRIL 2019 WAS A ROLLER-COASTER MONTH WHERE IT WAS DRY TO START, SIGNIFICANTLY WET TO END, WITH TEMPERATURE SWINGS BOTH ABOVE AND BELOW NORMAL. IT SEEMED AS IF SPRING WERE HERE TO STAY FROM THE 5TH THROUGH THE 9TH WHEN THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE DEPARTURE FOR THOSE DAYS REACHED AS HIGH AS 14.3 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL ON THE 8TH. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY SIX DAYS OF BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES, WITH A DEPARTURE AS GREAT AS 12.6 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL ON THE 14TH. IN THE FINAL FIVE DAYS OF APRIL, 2.94 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WAS REPORTED. IN THAT SAME STRETCH, THE AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE WAS AS MUCH AS 15.8 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL ON THE 27TH. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 48.0 DEGREES, WHICH IS 1.0 DEGREE BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 52ND COLDEST APRIL. 17 OF 30 DAYS OBSERVED AN AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE BELOW NORMAL. THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE THIS MONTH WAS A LOW OF 19 DEGREES ON THE 1ST. THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE WAS 76 DEGREES ON THE 22ND. 4.88 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WAS OBSERVED WHICH IS 1.65 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 25TH WETTEST APRIL. MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION OCCURRED ON 11 OF 30 DAYS, WITH FIVE OF THESE DAYS RECEIVING AT LEAST 0.50 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION. TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH WAS BELOW NORMAL AS LATE AS THE 28TH, WHEN IT WAS 0.37 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THEN, ON THE FINAL TWO DAYS OF THE MONTH, 2.25 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WAS OBSERVED. 1.0 INCH OF SNOW WAS RECORDED FOR THE MONTH WHICH IS 0.4 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. MEASUREABLE SNOW OCCURRED ON TWO DAYS; 0.8 INCHES ON THE 27TH AND 0.2 INCHES ON THE 14TH. BARRING ANY MAY SNOWFALL, THIS RANKS AS THE 7TH LATEST SNOWFALL ON RECORD. ONE RECORD WAS TIED THIS MONTH. ON THE 28TH, A TRACE OF SNOW WAS RECORDED WHICH TIES THE PREVIOUS RECORD SET IN 2011. MAY ...MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAY DAYS BRING RAIN AND COOL TEMPERATURES... WHO WILL STOP THE RAIN? WE DON`T KNOW THAT ANSWER BUT WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT MAY 2019 WILL BE REMEMBERED AS A COOL AND VERY WET MONTH WITH OVER 7 INCHES OF RAINFALL AROUND THE SOUTH BEND AREA. WHAT IS SURPRISING IS THAT MAY 2019 WAS NOT EVEN AS WET AS MAY 2018, WHICH WAS THE WETTEST MAY ON RECORD WITH 8.33 INCHES. THE DIFFERENCE THOUGH IS THAT THE RAIN THIS YEAR WAS SPREAD OVER THE ENTIRE MONTH WITH ONLY ONE SMALL STRETCH OF CONSECUTIVE DRY DAYS. IN FACT, THE TOP 4 WETTEST MONTHS OF MAY ON RECORD HAVE ALL OCCURRED SINCE 1996. THE ONLY TWO DAYS IN A ROW IN WHICH NO RAINFALL AT ALL WAS RECORDED WAS ON MAY 14TH AND 15TH. THERE WAS A STRETCH OF FOUR DAYS IN A ROW WITH NO MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION, MAY 3RD THROUGH THE 6TH, BUT A TRACE OF RAIN (LESS THAN 0.01 INCHES) OCCURRED ON THE 4TH AND 6TH. MAY IS NORMALLY THE SECOND WETTEST MONTH OF THE YEAR WITH 3.83 INCHES OF RAIN. THIS YEAR, THAT AMOUNT WAS ALMOST DOUBLED AND MEASURABLE RAIN FELL ON 22 DAYS. WITH RAIN ON MOST DAYS THIS MONTH, A LOT OF CLOUDS HELPED KEEP TEMPERATURES ON THE COOL SIDE. SURPRISINGLY, IT WAS NOT A SIGNIFICANTLY COLD MONTH AS SEVERAL DAYS THAT SAW THUNDERSTORMS ALSO HAD WARM TEMPERATURES BEFORE THEY DEVELOPED. THIS HELPED RAISE THE MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. MAY 2019 RANKED AS THE 40TH COOLEST ON RECORD WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 57.2 DEGREES, 2.1 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE WAS 85 ON THE 18TH AND THE COLDEST WAS 34 ON THE 14TH. THERE WERE 20 DAYS DURING THE MONTH WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW NORMAL. TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR MAY WAS 7.22 INCHES, 3.39 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 4TH WETTEST MAY ON RECORD. THE GREATEST 24 HOUR RAINFALL WAS 1.77 INCHES ON THE 27TH. THIS WAS A SINGLE DAY RECORD FOR THAT DATE. THERE WAS NO SNOWFALL IN MAY. THE TOTAL SEASONAL SNOWFALL FOR THE PERIOD OCTOBER 1ST TO MAY 31ST WAS 45.7 INCHES, 20.9 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS WAS THE 35TH LEAST SNOWIEST SEASONAL SNOWFALL ON RECORD. THE SNOWIEST WAS 1977-78 WITH 172 INCHES. JUNE ...WET WEATHER CONTINUES; SUMMER HEAT IN THE FLIP OF A SWITCH... JUNE 2019 WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR CONTINUED SOAKING RAINFALL AND A MID-MONTH STRETCH WHERE COOL TEMPERATURES MADE IT SEEM AS IF SUMMER WOULD NEVER ARRIVE. THERE WERE FOUR DAYS WHERE RAINFALL GREATER THAN A HALF INCH WAS RECORDED. FROM JUNE 10TH TO 24TH, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS BELOW NORMAL (EXCEPTION: JUNE 19TH WHICH WAS 0.1 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL). THE COOLEST DEPARTURE WAS -13.6 DEGREES ON JUNE 13TH. THE FINAL SIX DAYS OF THE MONTH FEATURED SUMMER-LIKE TEMPERATURES WITH HIGHS IN THE 80S AND LOWS IN THE 60S. THE MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH WAS 45 ON THE 3RD. THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH WAS 87 ON THE 26TH. JUNE 2019 RANKED AS TIED (1936, 1946, 2000) FOR THE 36TH COOLEST ON RECORD WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 67.4 DEGREES, 1.8 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE WAS 87 REACHED ON THE 26TH, 28TH, AND 29TH, AND THE COLDEST WAS 45 ON THE 3RD. THERE WERE 16 DAYS DURING THE MONTH WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW NORMAL WITH A PERIOD FROM THE 10TH TO THE 18TH OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. WHILE THE FORT WAYNE AREA WAS ABLE TO DRY OUT FROM HEAVY SPRING RAIN, SOUTH BEND SAW ABOVE NORMAL RAIN FOR JUNE. THE PERIOD FROM MAY 1ST TO JUNE 30TH RANKS AS THE 11TH WETTEST ON RECORD WITH 12.17 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION. THIS EXCEEDS THE NORMAL VALUE FOR THAT PERIOD, 7.62 INCHES. TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR JUNE WAS 4.95 INCHES, 1.16 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS TIED (1946) FOR THE 29TH WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD. THE GREATEST 24 HOUR RAINFALL WAS 0.93 INCHES ON THE 13TH. MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION WAS RECORDED ON 14 DAYS OF THE MONTH. JULY ...A NOTABLE BREAK IN PRECIPITATION; BOUTS OF HEAT... THIS JULY WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR A STRETCH OF HOT AND HUMID DAYS MID MONTH, BUT OVERALL, IT WAS A RATHER TYPICAL JULY. THERE WERE SIX DAYS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S, AND FOUR OF THESE OCCURRED DURING THE VERY WARM PERIOD FROM JULY 13TH TO THE 20TH. DURING THIS STRETCH, LOW TEMPERATURES DID NOT FALL BELOW 70 DEGREES FOR SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS. THIS WAS THE 6TH LONGEST JULY STREAK OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WITH LOWS OF 70 DEGREES OR WARMER. THE LONGEST WAS TEN DAYS IN A ROW ENDING ON JULY 23RD 1983. DESPITE THIS VERY WARM PERIOD, THERE WERE PLENTY OF COMFORTABLE DAYS DURING THE MONTH. THERE WERE 11 DAYS WITH LOW TEMPERATURES IN THE 50S AND TEN DAYS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES LESS THAN 85 DEGREES. THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE FOR JULY 2019 WAS 74.9, 1.9 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 28TH WARMEST JULY ON RECORD. THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURE WAS 93 DEGREES ON THE 20TH AND THE COOLEST TEMPERATURE WAS 53 DEGREES ON THE 23RD AND 31ST. PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH WAS 3.03 INCHES, 0.97 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 61ST DRIEST JULY ON RECORD. THIS IS ONLY THE SECOND TIME IN 2019 THAT SOUTH BEND HAS SEEN BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION FOR A MONTH. THE LAST TIME WAS IN JANUARY 2019. A NEW RECORD WARM MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 77 DEGREES WAS SET ON THE 19TH. THIS BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 76 DEGREES IN 2013. AUGUST ...DRY WITH EPISODES OF BELOW-NORMAL TEMPERATURES... EIGHT OF THE FIRST TEN AUGUST DAYS SAW AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE BELOW NORMAL. INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, OUR MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS OBSERVED WITHIN THIS STRETCH; 88 DEGREES ON AUGUST 5TH. THE MONTH ENDED WITH HIGHS IN THE 70S FOR EIGHT OF THE LAST TEN DAYS. THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE WAS 70.0, 1.3 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 34TH COLDEST AUGUST ON RECORD. THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE WAS 88 DEGREES ON THE 5TH AND THE MINIMUM TEMPERATURE WAS 49 DEGREES ON THE 31ST. PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH WAS 2.09 INCHES, 1.67 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKED AS THE 29TH DRIEST AUGUST ON RECORD. PRECIPITATION OF 0.01 INCHES OR MORE WAS OBSERVED ON 10 DAYS, WITH THE GREATEST SINGLE-DAY AMOUNT OF 0.88 INCHES ON THE 6TH. SEPTEMBER ...A WARM MONTH WITH A RAINY FINISH... SOUTH BEND STARTED THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER WITH BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES ON 6 OUT OF 8 DAYS, BUT THEN THE REST OF THE MONTH TURNED AROUND TO HAVE ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES. THE MONTH`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`S PRECIPITATION TOTAL FELL ON THE FINAL SIX DAYS OF THE MONTH; 3.34 INCHES. THIS RANKS AS THE 17TH WETTEST OCTOBER ON RECORD. WHILE THIS MAY SOUND IMPRESSIVE, OCTOBER 2017 OBSERVED 9.13 INCHES! 0.2 INCHES OF SNOW WAS OBSERVED ON THE 31ST. THIS WAS THE ONLY DATE WITH SNOW FOR THE MONTH. THIS IS 0.2 INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL OF 0.4 INCHES. THIS RANKS AS THE 30TH SNOWIEST OCTOBER ON RECORD. SPECIFICALLY FOR HALLOWEEN, 0.2 INCHES TIES 2014 AS THE 4TH GREATEST DAILY TOTAL. NOVEMBER ...NOVEMBRRR 2019 BREAKS 99+ YEAR-OLD RECORDS... NOVEMBER 12TH AND 13TH WERE THE DAYS SOUTH BEND REACHED ROCK-BOTTOM DURING A COLD NOVEMBER 2019. HIGHS WERE IN THE 20S AND OVERNIGHT LOWS REACHED 6 DEGREES. SEVENTEEN OF THE FIRST EIGHTEEN DAYS OF THE MONTH HAD A DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE BELOW NORMAL. THIS STRETCH, NOVEMBER 1-18, RANKED AS THE SECOND COLDEST ON RECORD WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 33.2 DEGREES (FIRST COLDEST: 1951, 31.8 DEGREES). FOUR RECORDS WERE SET AT SOUTH BEND THIS MONTH. NOVEMBER 12TH HAD TWO RECORDS: THE LOW TEMPERATURE OF 6 DEGREES BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 12 DEGREES IN 1898. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 24 DEGREES SET A NEW RECORD COLD HIGH TEMPERATURE. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 27 SET IN 1920. THE LOW TEMPERATURE ON NOVEMBER 13TH OF 6 DEGREES WAS A NEW RECORD, BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 9 DEGREES IN 1911. LASTLY, NOVEMBER 11TH SAW A RECORD SNOWFALL OF 6 INCHES. THIS TIES THE RECORD OF 6 INCHES IN 1907. THE MEAN TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 35.6 DEGREES. THIS IS 5.1 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 14TH COLDEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD. FOR REFERENCE, NOVEMBER 2018 RANKED 6TH COLDEST ON RECORD WITH A MEAN TEMPERATURE OF 33.9 DEGREES. NOVEMBER 11TH FEATURED THE FIRST 1"+ SNOWFALL OF 2019-2020. WITH RESPECT TO THE FIRST SNOWFALL OF 1 INCH OR MORE IN A WINTER SEASON, THIS MAY RANK AS THE 6TH GREATEST TOTAL. THE START OF WINTER 2014- 2015 SAW 12.3 INCHES ON NOVEMBER 13TH. FOR THE MONTH, 6.8 INCHES OF SNOW WAS OBSERVED. THIS IS 2.0 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 55TH SNOWIEST ON RECORD. 1.44 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WAS OBSERVED. THIS IS 1.83 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 15TH DRIEST ON RECORD. ONE ADDITIONAL NOTE FOR THE MONTH WAS A WIND STORM ON THE 27TH IN WHICH A WIND GUST OF 52 MPH WAS RECORDED. THIS STORM RESULTED IN SOME PROPERTY DAMAGE INCLUDING DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES. ...ABOVE ALL, A WARM CHRISTMAS... WHILE METEOROLOGICAL WINTER BEGINS DECEMBER 1ST, OUR TEMPERATURES FOR MUCH OF THIS MONTH WERE UN-WINTERLIKE. ONLY SEVEN DAYS THIS MONTH OBSERVED AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE BELOW NORMAL. DECEMBER 11TH FEATURED A HIGH OF 24 AND A LOW OF 12 DEGREES; AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE 12 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS IS IN STARK CONTRAST TO DECEMBER 26TH WHICH WAS 31 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THE MEAN TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 35.2 DEGREES WHICH IS 6.4 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 11TH WARMEST ON RECORD. TWO TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE SET ON ONE DAY: DECEMBER 26TH. A NEW HIGH OF 63 DEGREES BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 55 DEGREES FROM 1959. THE SECOND RECORD, A NEW WARM MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 50 DEGREES, BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 45 DEGREES FROM 1936. CHRISTMAS DAY SAW A HIGH OF 59 DEGREES, WHICH RANKS AS THE SECOND WARMEST ON RECORD. THE RECORD WARMEST IS 65 DEGREES IN 1982. THE MONTH WAS LARGELY DRY UNTIL THE FINAL COUPLE DAYS WHEN 1.26 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION FELL ON THE 29TH AND 30TH. THERE WAS A NOTABLE DRY PERIOD FROM THE 19TH THROUGH 27TH. THIS CAN BE EXPANDED TO THE 17TH AND 27TH WHEN ONLY A TRACE OF PRECIPITATION WAS OBSERVED. 2.18 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WAS OBSERVED, WHICH IS 0.43INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 55TH DRIEST DECEMBER ON RECORD. ONLY 3.9 INCHES OF SNOW WAS OBSERVED, MAINLY ON THE 16TH AND 31ST WHEN 1.6 INCHES AND 1.7 INCHES WAS OBSERVED, RESPECTIVELY. FOR THE MONTH, THIS IS 13.4 INCHES BELOW NORMAL, AND THE 17TH LEAST SNOWIEST. $$ BROWN/ROLLER/MARSILI