Climatological Report (Monthly)
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
000 CXUS53 KIWX 010855 CLMFWA CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 455 AM EDT SUN OCT 01 2023 ................................... ...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2023... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1991 TO 2020 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1897 TO 2023 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE DATE(S) NORMAL ................................................................ TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 100 09/02/1953 09/01/1953 LOW 29 09/23/1995 09/29/1951 HIGHEST 92 09/05 MM MM 89 09/21 LOWEST 44 09/19 MM MM 37 09/29 09/30 AVG. MAXIMUM 77.6 76.1 1.5 75.4 AVG. MINIMUM 54.6 53.4 1.2 54.1 MEAN 66.1 64.8 1.3 DAYS MAX >= 90 1 1.5 -0.5 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MIN <= 32 0 0.1 -0.1 0 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 7.44 1933 MINIMUM 0.34 1979 TOTALS 1.63 3.04 -1.41 1.96 DAILY AVG. 0.05 0.10 -0.05 0.07 DAYS >= .01 7 9.1 -2.1 9 DAYS >= .10 4 5.6 -1.6 5 DAYS >= .50 1 2.2 -1.2 1 DAYS >= 1.00 0 0.8 -0.8 0 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 1.20 09/26 TO 09/27 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL T 2003 TOTALS 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 SINCE 7/1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 0 DAYS >= 1.0 0 0.0 0.0 0 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 0 0 24 HR TOTAL MM DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 43 94 -51 93 SINCE 7/1 49 106 -57 95 COOLING TOTAL 82 86 -4 95 SINCE 1/1 738 837 -99 925 ................................................................ WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 5.7 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 21/070 DATE 09/23 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 29/070 DATE 09/23 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.56 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 8 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 13 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 9 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 72 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 3 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 2 RAIN 2 LIGHT RAIN 10 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 0 LIGHT SNOW 0 SLEET 0 FOG 20 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 1 HAZE 3 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && ...29TH DRIEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD RESULTS IN WORSENING DROUGHT... RECALL THAT ONLY A TRACE OF RAIN HAD FALLEN AT FORT WAYNE FROM AUGUST 18TH TO 31ST. THIS DRYNESS CONTINUED INTO SEPTEMBER AS MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION WAS NOT RECORDED UNTIL THE 6TH (0.06 INCHES). AS A RESULT, DROUGHT CONDITIONS CAME BLAZING BACK TO THE REGION ACCORDING TO THE US DROUGHT MONITOR. ON SEPTEMBER 5TH, JUST OVER 65% OF THE FORECAST AREA WAS EXPERIENCING "ABNORMALLY DRY" CONDITIONS, WHILE ABOUT 3% WAS DEEMED TO BE IN A "MODERATE DROUGHT". BY SEPTEMBER 26H, 80% OF THE FORECAST AREA WAS EXPERIENCING "MODERATE DROUGHT". LAWNS BECAME DORMANT. SOIL WAS VERY DRY AND CRACKED, AND VERY LOW WATER LEVELS WERE NOTED ACROSS PONDS, CREEKS, STREAMS AND RIVERS. PASTURE CONDITIONS DETERIORATED AND SOYBEAN PODS WERE SHATTERING IN CENTRAL INDIANA. WHILE SMALL DOSES OF RAIN OCCURRED HERE-AND-THERE IN SEPTEMBER, NOTABLE RELIEF FINALLY OCCURRED AT THE END OF THE MONTH WHEN A TOTAL OF 1.31 INCHES WAS RECORDED FROM THE 26TH THROUGH 28TH. (JUST WEST OF THE AIRPORT, SOME COCORAHS OBSERVERS RECORDED OVER 2".) PRIOR TO THE 26TH, FORT WAYNE WAS ON PACE TO RECORD PERHAPS ITS DRIEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD (0.32"). INSTEAD, PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH TOTALED 1.63 INCHES WHICH IS THE 29TH DRIEST ON RECORD. THIS IS THE DRIEST SINCE 2010 WHEN 1.36 INCHES WAS OBSERVED. (NOTE: 1.65 AND 1.67 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WAS RECORDED IN SEPTEMBER 2018 AND 2017, RESPECTIVELY.) PAIRED WITH THE DRY CONDITIONS WERE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. A BLOCKING RIDGE WAS A FACTOR ONCE AGAIN. HIGH TEMPERATURES WELL INTO THE 80S BEGAN THE MONTH, WITH ONE 90-DEGREE DAY RECORDED. THE MIDDLE OF THE MONTH FEATURED A FALL-LIKE COOL DOWN, WITH A TEN-DAY STRETCH OF BELOW-NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THIS WAS QUICKLY OFFSET BY UNSEASONABLY MILD CONDITIONS IN THE FINAL THIRD OF THE MONTH. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 66.1 DEGREES WHICH IS 1.3 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 45TH WARMEST ON RECORD. NO RECORDS WERE SET THIS MONTH. BROWN. $$