Climatological Report (Seasonal)
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610 CXUS53 KIWX 012236 CLSSBN INDCLMSBN 000 TTAA00 KIWX 012153 CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 453 PM EST SUN DEC 1 2019 ................................... ...THE SOUTH BEND CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE FALL SEASON 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 99 09/01/1953 09/08/1933 09/07/1933 LOW -7 11/25/1950 HIGHEST 90 10/01 MM MM 90 09/11 09/10 LOWEST 6 11/13 MM MM 17 11/12 AVG. MAXIMUM 61.1 61.3 -0.2 58.8 AVG. MINIMUM 43.9 43.2 0.7 42.6 MEAN 52.5 52.3 0.2 DAYS MAX >= 90 3 0.7 2.3 3 DAYS MAX <= 32 3 1.9 1.1 6 DAYS MIN <= 32 18 16.6 1.4 27 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 19.07 2008 MINIMUM 3.23 1956 TOTALS 13.16 10.12 3.04 10.62 DAILY AVG. 0.15 0.11 0.04 0.12 DAYS >= .01 31 34.2 -3.2 42 DAYS >= .10 22 19.6 2.4 23 DAYS >= .50 8 6.3 1.7 10 DAYS >= 1.00 4 2.0 2.0 0 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 2.95 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 30.6 1977 24 HR TOTAL MM TOTALS 7.0 5.2 1.8 12.1 SINCE 7/1 7.0 5.2 1.8 12.1 SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 MM MM 0 DAYS >= TRACE 9 4.2 4.8 15 DAYS >= 1.0 1 1.8 -0.8 4 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 5 11/12 4 24 HR TOTAL 6.5 11/11 TO 11/12 DEGREE_DAYS HEATING TOTAL 1271 1252 19 1446 SINCE 7/1 MM 1269 MM MM COOLING TOTAL 160 91 69 171 SINCE 1/1 779 773 6 941 .............................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 8.8 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 36/270 DATE 11/27 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 52/250 DATE 11/27 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.50 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 31 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 33 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 27 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 73 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH 0 14 0 0 2 0 5 HAZE 15 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && THE MEAN TEMPERATURE WAS 52.5 DEGREES WHICH IS NEAR NORMAL FOR THE SEASON (52.3 DEGREES). 13.16 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION FELL THIS FALL, WHICH WAS 3.04 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 16TH WETTEST FALL ON RECORD. THIS WAS THE WETTEST FALL SINCE 2017 WHEN 14.57 INCHES FELL (8TH WETTEST). THERE WAS 7.0 INCHES OF SNOW, WHICH IS 1.8 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 59TH SNOWIEST FALL ON RECORD. BELOW IS A SUMMARY OF EACH FALL MONTH. BROWN 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. BROWN 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. 1.45 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WAS OBSERVED. THIS IS 1.82 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. BROWN $$