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CLIMATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
545 AM EST FRI MAR 01 2024

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...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE SEASON, FROM
12/1/2023 TO 2/29/2024...

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             73   02/25/2000
 LOW             -24   01/12/1918
HIGHEST           69   02/27         MM      MM       62
LOWEST            -6   01/15         MM      MM       -8
AVG. MAXIMUM    42.0               35.5     6.5     40.7
AVG. MINIMUM    27.9               21.2     6.7     26.2
MEAN            34.9               28.4     6.5
DAYS MAX >= 90     0                0.0     0.0        0
DAYS MAX <= 32    11               35.5   -24.5       14
DAYS MIN <= 32    59               76.7   -17.7       67
DAYS MIN <= 0      3                6.1    -3.1        2

PRECIPITATION (INCHES)
RECORD
 MAXIMUM       17.85   1950
 MINIMUM        1.58   1920
TOTALS          6.60               7.07   -0.47     9.48
DAILY AVG.      0.07                 MM      MM     0.11
DAYS >= .01       36               36.3    -0.3       33
DAYS >= .10       19               17.1     1.9       17
DAYS >= .50        1                4.3    -3.3        5
DAYS >= 1.00       1                0.9     0.1        3
GREATEST
 24 HR. TOTAL   1.28   01/09 TO 01/09

SNOWFALL (INCHES)
RECORDS
 TOTAL          61.1   1982
 24 HR TOTAL     6.7   02/02/2022 TO 02/03/2022
TOTALS          10.5               26.2   -15.7     13.4
SINCE 7/1       10.9               28.2   -17.3     17.6
SNOWDEPTH AVG.     T                                   0
DAYS >= TRACE     30               25.3     4.7       28
DAYS >= 1.0        5                8.4    -3.4        4
GREATEST
 SNOW DEPTH        3   01/20                           7
 24 HR TOTAL     2.0   01/09 TO 01/09

DEGREE DAYS
HEATING TOTAL   2720               3298    -578     2821
 SINCE 7/1      3813               4561    -748     3958
COOLING TOTAL      0                  0       0        0
 SINCE 1/1         0                  0       0        0
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WIND (MPH)
AVERAGE WIND SPEED              9.5
HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION    39/230    DATE  01/13
HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION    54/220    DATE  01/13

SKY COVER
POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT)   MM
AVERAGE SKY COVER           0.75
NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR           10
NUMBER OF DAYS PC             25
NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY         56

AVERAGE RH (PERCENT)     76

WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH
THUNDERSTORM              2     MIXED PRECIP               2
HEAVY RAIN                3     RAIN                      11
LIGHT RAIN               37     FREEZING RAIN              1
LT FREEZING RAIN          4     HAIL                       0
HEAVY SNOW                1     SNOW                       2
LIGHT SNOW               30     SLEET                      3
FOG                      54     FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE     10
HAZE                     13

-  INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.
R  INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.
MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.
T  INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.

&&
...SECOND WARMEST WINTER ON RECORD...

THIS WINTER`S "VERY STRONG" EL NINO DELIVERED AS ANTICIPATED; WARMER
THAN NORMAL WITH (SOMEWHAT) BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION.

THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE WINTER, 34.9 DEGREES, IS 6.5 DEGREES
ABOVE NORMAL AND IS THE WARMEST SINCE 1931-1932. THIS IS THE SECOND
WARMEST WINTER ON RECORD. FEBRUARY AND DECEMBER HAD THE GREATEST
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL, WHILE JANUARY WAS ONLY 1.9 DEGREES ABOVE
NORMAL. THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE THIS WINTER WAS 69 DEGREES ON
FEBRUARY 27TH. THIS IS THE WARMEST WINTER TEMPERATURE SINCE 70
DEGREES ON FEBRUARY 20, 2018. THE RECORD WARMEST WINTER TEMPERATURE
IS 73 DEGREES, SET ON FEBRUARY 25, 2000.

DECEMBER PRECIPITATION WAS BELOW NORMAL. JANUARY`S WAS ALMOST 1.5
INCHES ABOVE NORMAL, AND FEBRUARY ENDED 1.10 INCHES BELOW NORMAL.
ALL TOLD, THE WINTER`S PRECIPITATION TOTAL OF 6.60 INCHES IS 0.47
INCHES BELOW NORMAL AND TIES FOR THE 62ND DRIEST ON RECORD.

OF COURSE, GIVEN THE MILD TEMPERATURES, SNOW WAS HARD TO COME BY.
SNOW TOTALED 10.5 INCHES THIS WINTER AND IS 13.4 INCHES BELOW
NORMAL. THIS IS THE 14TH LEAST AMOUNT OF SNOW ON RECORD AND WAS THE
LOWEST WINTER SNOW TOTAL SINCE 9.4 INCHES IN 2001-2002.

LASTLY, ICE COVERAGE OVER THE GREAT LAKES WAS HISTORICALLY LOW. ON
JANUARY 22, ICE COVERAGE WAS 16% ON THE GREAT LAKES. THIS IS THE
CURRENT SEASONAL MAXIMUM AND TIES 2012 FOR THE SECOND-EARLIEST PEAK
ON RECORD, ACCORDING TO A CLIMATE.GOV ARTICLE PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY
16TH. THE ARTICLE ALSO NOTES, "DAILY RECORD-LOW ICE COVER HAS
PERSISTED ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES SINCE FEBRUARY 8, 2024." THE
TYPICAL MAXIMUM ICE COVERAGE FOR THE GREAT LAKES IS ABOUT 54%,
OCCURRING IN MID-FEBRUARY.

A MONTH-BY-MONTH SUMMARY IS BELOW.

BROWN
...2ND WARMEST DECEMBER, 6TH LEAST SNOWIEST ON RECORD...

TEMPERATURES THROUGHOUT DECEMBER 2023 WERE WELL ABOVE AVERAGE. THE
MOST NOTABLE TEMPERATURE DEPARTURES OCCURRED AROUND CHRISTMAS; THERE
WAS A 4 DAY STRETCH OF HIGHS IN THE 50S WITH THE DAILY AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE EACH DAY EXCEEDING 15-20 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. OVERALL,
29 OF 31 DAYS THIS MONTH WERE ABOVE AVERAGE! THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE
FOR THE MONTH WAS 39.8 DEGREES, WHICH IS AN ASTOUNDING 8.9 DEGREES
ABOVE NORMAL! DECEMBER 2023 WAS THE 2ND WARMEST DECEMBER ON RECORD
AND THE WARMEST SINCE 2015. RECORDS BEGAN IN 1897.

PRECIPITATION WAS ONCE AGAIN LACKING THIS MONTH. THERE WERE NO DAILY
RAINFALL TOTALS OVER HALF AN INCH. THERE WERE SEVERAL DAYS WHERE
RAINFALL ONLY TOTALED A QUARTER INCH OR LESS; THE HIGHEST DAILY
RAINFALL TOTAL WAS 0.28" ON DECEMBER 22ND. PRECIPITATION TOTALED
1.69" FOR THE MONTH. THIS IS 0.78" BELOW NORMAL AND WAS THE 36TH
DRIEST DECEMBER ON RECORD FOR FORT WAYNE.

ONLY ONE DAY IN DECEMBER RECORDED MEASURABLE SNOW; 0.5" OF SNOW FELL
ON DECEMBER 18TH. THE TOTAL OF 0.5" OF SNOW FOR THE MONTH WAS 7.1"
BELOW NORMAL. DECEMBER 2023 TIES FOR THE 6TH LEAST SNOWIEST ON
RECORD.

NO RECORDS WERE SET THIS MONTH.

JOHNSON
...JANUARY 2024...

THE FIRST 12 DAYS OF JANUARY WERE MILD, WITH AN AVERAGE DAILY
TEMPERATURE AS GREAT AS 13 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL (JANUARY 9TH). BY
THE END OF THAT PERIOD, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH (32.3
DEGREES) WAS 6.0 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL WHICH RANKS AS THE 29TH
WARMEST ON RECORD. AS THE POLAR VORTEX WEAKENED, COLD AIR BLASTED
INTO THE REGION. FROM THE 13TH THROUGH 22ND, THE AVERAGE DAILY
TEMPERATURE WAS AS MUCH AS 24 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL (JANUARY 15TH).
HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE SINGLE DIGITS AT TIMES AND OVERNIGHT
LOWS WERE BELOW ZERO. THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH, -6 ON
THE 15TH, WAS THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE RECORDED AT FORT WAYNE SINCE
-9 DEGREES ON JANUARY 26, 2022. THIS CHILL WAS SHORT LIVED AS ABOVE-
NORMAL TEMPERATURES RETURNED TO END THE MONTH. THE MONTH ENDED WITH
AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 27.4 DEGREES WHICH IS 1.9 DEGREES ABOVE
NORMAL. THIS TIES AS THE 48TH WARMEST ON RECORD.

AS THE ARCTIC AIR ARRIVED AND SUBSEQUENTLY DEPARTED, A COUPLE
EPISODES OF SNOW OCCURRED TOTALING 7.3 INCHES FOR THE MONTH. THIS IS
3.5 INCHES BELOW NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 58TH LEAST ON RECORD. THIS
IS A FEW INCHES SHY OF THE 10.4 INCHES RECORDED IN JANUARY 2023.

SNOW ON THE 9TH WAS NOTABLE BECAUSE A PRECIPITATION RECORD OF 1.28"
OCCURRED THAT DAY PAIRED WITH 2.0 INCHES OF HEAVY WET SNOW (PREVIOUS
RECORD OF 0.75 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION IN 1930). THIS WAS A RESULT
OF RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW. STANDING WATER WAS TRAPPED BENEATH THIS
"CONCRETE SNOW" MAKING FOR SOUPY, SLOPPY CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE
REGION.

PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH TOTALED AN IMPRESSIVE 3.95 INCHES. THIS
IS 1.41 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 20TH WETTEST ON RECORD.
THIS WAS THE WETTEST JANUARY SINCE 4.07 INCHES IN JANUARY 2020. FOR
PERSPECTIVE, THIS MONTHLY TOTAL IS COMPARABLE TO THE NORMAL
PRECIPITATION AMOUNT FOR AUGUST; 3.80 INCHES.

BROWN
...3RD WARMEST FEBRUARY ON RECORD...

AFTER AN INCREDIBLY WARM MONTH, FORT WAYNE HAS OFFICIALLY CLINCHED
THE 3RD WARMEST FEBRUARY ON RECORD! ONLY FIVE DAYS THIS MONTH WERE
BELOW NORMAL; IN COMPARISON, 13 DAYS THIS MONTH WERE 10+ DEGREES
ABOVE NORMAL! THERE WERE SIX DAYS THIS MONTH WITH A HIGH IN THE 60S,
WHICH INCLUDED A THREE DAY STREAK FROM FEBRUARY 26TH TO 28TH. ON
AVERAGE, FEBRUARY HAS ONE DAY IN THE 60S.

SEVERAL TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE TIED OR BROKEN THIS MONTH. THERE
WERE TWO HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS BROKEN ON FEBRUARY 9TH AND 26TH.
THERE WERE ALSO TWO DAILY RECORD WARM LOW TEMPERATURES BROKEN ON
FEBRUARY 9TH AND 27TH. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR FEBRUARY WAS 37.5
DEGREES, WHICH IS 8.8 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS WAS THE WARMEST
FEBRUARY SINCE 2017 (39.8 DEGREES).

PRECIPITATION WAS TOUGH TO COME BY THIS MONTH. THE ONLY DAY WITH A
RAIN TOTAL OVER A QUARTER OF AN INCH WAS ON FEBRUARY 22ND WITH
0.49". PRECIPITATION TOTALED 0.96" FOR THE MONTH. THIS IS 1.10"
BELOW NORMAL AND TIED FOR THE 23RD DRIEST FEBRUARY ON RECORD. THIS
WAS THE DRIEST FEBRUARY SINCE 2007 (WHICH ALSO HAD 0.96" OF
PRECIPITATION) IN FORT WAYNE.

DUE TO THE ANOMALOUSLY WARM TEMPERATURES, SNOWFALL WAS NOTABLY
LACKING THIS MONTH. SNOWFALL TOTALED ONLY 2.7" FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH.
THIS IS 5.1" BELOW NORMAL AND TIED FOR THE 28TH LEAST SNOWIEST
FEBRUARY ON RECORD. INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, DESPITE A LACK OF SNOW,
THE TOTAL SNOWFALL THIS MONTH WAS 1350% OF WHAT FELL LAST YEAR.
FEBRUARY 2023 ONLY TOTALED 0.2" OF SNOW.

JOHNSON
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