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Climatological Report (Annual)
Issued by NWS
Issued by NWS
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CXUS53 KIWX 111414 CCA
CLASBN
CLIMATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
914 AM EST WED JAN 11 2023
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...THE SOUTH BEND CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR OF 2022...
CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1991 TO 2020
CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1893 TO 2022
WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S
VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE
NORMAL
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TEMPERATURE (F)
RECORD
HIGH 109 07/24/1934
LOW -22 01/20/1943
01/25/1897
HIGHEST 99 06/21 MM MM 95
LOWEST -8 12/23 MM MM -4
AVG. MAXIMUM 60.2 58.7 1.5 61.7
AVG. MINIMUM 41.1 39.9 1.2 43.1
MEAN 50.7 49.3 1.4
DAYS MAX >= 90 17 13.5 3.5 14
DAYS MAX <= 32 49 44.7 4.3 33
DAYS MIN <= 32 125 126.4 -1.4 126
DAYS MIN <= 0 3 5.8 -2.8 2
PRECIPITATION (INCHES)
RECORD
MAXIMUM 55.61 1990
MINIMUM 25.15 1963
TOTALS 35.15 39.23 -4.08 42.17
DAILY AVG. 0.10 0.11 -0.01 0.12
DAYS >= .01 144 147.5 -3.5 143
DAYS >= .10 81 80.0 1.0 76
DAYS >= .50 24 24.6 -0.6 26
DAYS >= 1.00 6 7.5 -1.5 8
SNOWFALL (INCHES)
RECORDS
TOTAL 141.7 1978
TOTALS 91.8 64.5 27.3 39.0
SINCE 7/1 39.1 19.0 20.1 3.3
SNOWDEPTH AVG. 1 1
DAYS >= TRACE 74 42.2 31.8 70
DAYS >= 1.0 27 20.3 6.7 14
GREATEST
SNOW DEPTH 15 11/20 16
DEGREE DAYS
HEATING TOTAL 5742 6400 -658 5599
SINCE 7/1 2196 2404 -208 1871
COOLING TOTAL 1003 722 281 1167
SINCE 1/1 1003 723 280 1167
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WIND (MPH)
AVERAGE WIND SPEED 9.4
HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 47/210 DATE 11/05
HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 66/200 DATE 11/05
SKY COVER
POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM
AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.47
NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 155
NUMBER OF DAYS PC 112
NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 98
AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 68
WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH
THUNDERSTORM 27 MIXED PRECIP 0
HEAVY RAIN 32 RAIN 49
LIGHT RAIN 124 FREEZING RAIN 0
LT FREEZING RAIN 7 HAIL 0
HEAVY SNOW 9 SNOW 24
LIGHT SNOW 69 SLEET 1
FOG 168 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 23
HAZE 90
- INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.
R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.
MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.
T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.
&&
...12TH MOST SNOW ON RECORD...
TOTAL SNOWFALL FOR THE YEAR WAS 91.8 INCHES, WHICH IS A WHOPPING
27.3 INCHES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 64.5 INCHES. THIS IS THE 12TH MOST
SNOW ON RECORD AND THE GREATEST TOTAL SINCE 98.7 INCHES IN 2014.
NOVEMBER WAS THE MONTH THAT TRULY TIPPED THE SNOW-SCALES ABOVE
NORMAL. 30.2 INCHES WAS REPORTED, WHICH WAS ONLY ONE-TENTH OF AN
INCH SHY OF THE NOVEMBER RECORD SET IN 1977. ALSO OF NOTE WAS
FEBRUARY`S SNOW TOTAL OF 23.9 INCHES, WHICH WAS THE 14TH GREATEST ON
RECORD.
THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS 50.7 DEGREES, WHICH IS 1.4
DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 49.3 DEGREES. THIS TIES AS THE 28TH
WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD. THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS 99
DEGREES ON JUNE 21ST (GREATEST SINCE 102 DEGREES IN 2012). THE
LOWEST TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS -8 DEGREES ON DECEMBER 23RD.
THE TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE YEAR WAS 35.15 INCHES. THIS IS 4.08
INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL OF 39.23 INCHES. THIS RANKS AS THE 48TH
DRIEST YEAR ON RECORD.
NOTABLE WEATHER EVENTS THIS YEAR INCLUDE:
--FEBRUARY BEGAN WITH AN 11.2" SNOW STORM. BY MID-MONTH,
TEMPERATURES SOARED INTO THE 50S AND RAIN ARRIVED. AROUND 1 INCH OF
PRECIPITATION OCCURRED, BUT DUE TO THE SNOWPACK AND FROZEN GROUND,
FLOODING OCCURRED. AS THIS SYSTEM DEPARTED, 3 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW
FELL.
--MAY FEATURED ANOMALOUS WARMTH IN THE FIRST HALF. FOUR TEMPERATURE
RECORDS WERE SET IN FOUR DAYS.
--A DERECHO SWEPT THROUGH THE REGION ON JUNE 13TH. THE MOST INTENSE
WIND DAMAGE OCCURRED TOWARD FORT WAYNE.
--JULY RANKED AS THE 20TH WETTEST AT SOUTH BEND. ALTERNATIVELY,
AUGUST RANKED WITHIN THE TOP THIRTY DRIEST AND WARMEST.
--OCTOBER BEGAN WITHIN THE TOP-20 COLDEST, BUT ENDED WITHIN THE TOP-
15 WARMEST. THE SEASON`S FIRST TRACE OF SNOW OCCURRED IN OCTOBER.
--SECOND-MOST NOVEMBER SNOW ON RECORD.
--A DECEMBER STORM BROUGHT BLIZZARD CONDITIONS TO MUCH OF MICHIANA
AND WIND CHILLS OF 35 TO 40 DEGREES BELOW ZERO.
BROWN
JANUARY 2022:
...BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES WITH A VERY COLD END TO THE MONTH...
THE MONTH WAS CHARACTERIZED BY BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES DUE TO
COUPLE OF ARCTIC INTRUSIONS. SINGLE DIGIT LOWS ABOVE ZERO WERE
COMMON FOR THE LAST 11 DAYS OF THE MONTH, WITH 8 OF THE 11 DAYS
EXPERIENCING LOW TEMPERATURES BELOW 10 DEGREES. THE COLDEST MINIMUM
TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH WAS -1 ON THE 26TH. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE
FOR THE MONTH WAS 21.1 DEGREES WHICH IS 3.0 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.
THIS RANKS AS THE 32ND COLDEST ON RECORD.
OVERALL THE MONTH WAS DRY, WITH A FEW SYSTEM AND LAKE EFFECT SNOW
EVENTS. PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH TOTALED 1.13 INCHES OR 1.56
INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS IS THE 17TH DRIEST ON RECORD. DESPITE THE
MUCH BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION, THE TOTAL SNOWFALL FOR THE MONTH OF
21.5 INCHES WAS RIGHT NEAR THE NORMAL OF 21.6 INCHES DUE TO HIGH
SNOW TO LIQUID RATIOS ACCOMPANYING THE ARCTIC AIR.
THERE WERE NO RECORDS SET THIS MONTH.
FEBRUARY 2022
...ABOVE NORMAL SNOWFALL AND ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION...
THIS MONTH WAS CHARACTERIZED BY THE ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION,
TOTALING 2.96 INCHES, WHICH IS 0.65 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKED
AS THE 20TH WETTEST ON RECORD AND FINISHED WITH RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM
PRECIPITATION TOTALS ON THE 2ND AND 17ND OF THE MONTH.
WHILE THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE WAS JUST SHY OF NORMAL,
MEASURING 26.8 DEGREES WHEN COMPARED WITH THE NORMAL OF 26.5
DEGREES, FEBRUARY WILL BE MORE NOTED FOR ITS TEMPERATURE SWINGS. FOR
INSTANCE, SIX OF THE MONTH`S MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES WERE HIGHER THAN
FEBRUARY`S AVERAGE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE BY 7 DEGREES. IN ADDITION,
FOUR OF THE MONTH`S MINIMUM TEMPERATURES WERE LOWER THAN FEBRUARY`S
AVERAGE MINIMUM TEMPERATURE BY 7 DEGREES. THE LOWER TEMPERATURES AT
THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH RESULTED IN ICE ON AREA RIVERS, WHICH
BROKE UP LATER IN THE MONTH AS WARMTH AND RAIN ARRIVED.
FEBRUARY ALSO BROUGHT THE HIGHEST MONTHLY SNOWFALL TOTALS OF THE
WINTER. THE 23.9 INCHES OF OBSERVED SNOW SURPASSED THE 16.1 INCHES
OF NORMAL SNOWFALL FOR THE MONTH. THIS RANKED AS THE 14TH SNOWIEST
FEBRUARY ON RECORD. DAILY MAXIMUM SNOWFALL RECORDS WERE BROKEN ON
THE 2ND (5.3 INCHES)AND THE 17TH (11.2 INCHES).
WITH SNOWPACK MELT, ICE JAMS, A FROZEN GROUND SURFACE, AND RAINFALL
OCCURRING AT OPTIMAL TIMES, STANDING WATER AND RIVER FLOODING
OCCURRED BETWEEN THE 17TH AND 23RD OF THE MONTH.
ROLLER
MARCH 2022
...WARM WITH ABOVE AVERAGE PRECIPITATION...
AS IS USUALLY THE CASE FOR SPRING, TEMPERATURES WERE TOPSY-TURVY.
SOUTH BEND HAD A FEW TASTES OF SPRING THIS MONTH AS TEMPERATURES
ROSE INTO THE 70S ON FOUR SEPARATE DAYS. WITH REALLY ONLY TWO COLD
BLASTS THIS MONTH, THE MEAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FINISHED ABOVE
NORMAL BY 3.6 DEGREES. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 50.2 DEGREES
RECORDED FROM MARCH 14TH TO MARCH 23RD RANKED AS THE 5TH WARMEST
MEAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE IN SOUTH BEND`S 100-YEAR-PLUS PERIOD OF
RECORD. IF YOU GUESSED 2012 HAD A WARMER PERIOD OF AVERAGE
TEMPERATURES, YOU`D BE RIGHT; ALMOST 19 DEGREES WARMER THAN 50.2
DEGREES.
THIS MONTH`S ABOVE AVERAGE PRECIPITATION TOTAL OF 3.22 INCHES WAS
ATTAINED THROUGH SMALL DAILY TOTALS. TWO DATES, THE 18TH AND 30TH,
MANAGED TO SEE DAILY RAINFALL TOTALS OVER A HALF INCH. WHEREAS OVER
HALF THE DAYS THIS MONTH SAW OBSERVED PRECIPITATION OF A TRACE OR
HIGHER.
SYSTEM SNOW AND THEN LAKE EFFECT SNOW BLANKETED THE REGION BETWEEN
MARCH 10TH AND MARCH 12TH PROVIDING 5.1 INCHES OF SNOW DURING THOSE
THREE DAYS. THIS HELPED SOUTH BEND APPROACH ITS MARCH AVERAGE
SNOWFALL TOTAL. SNOW THIS MONTH TOTALED 6.1 INCHES, JUST SEVEN-
TENTHS SHY OF NORMAL, 6.8 INCHES.
ROLLER/FISHER
APRIL 2022
...COOLER AND SLIGHTLY MORE SNOW THAN NORMAL...
THIS MONTH CONTAINED UPS AND DOWNS AS FAR AS TEMPERATURE GOES.
DESPITE A PLEASANT WARM UP BETWEEN THE 21ST AND THE 24TH, THE MONTH
STILL FINISHED BELOW NORMAL FOR MEAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. DUE TO THE
AFOREMENTIONED LATE-MONTH WARM UP, THE GROWING SEASON STARTED IN THE
AREA AND A FREEZE WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR THE MORNING OF THE 27TH
WHEN A LOW TEMPERATURE OF 27 DEGREES WAS RECORDED. THIS WAS ONE
DEGREE ABOVE THE RECORD LOW FOR THAT DATE.
SOUTH BEND WAS SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL FOR APRIL SNOWFALL. BUT THAT
ISN`T SAYING MUCH SINCE THE NORMAL IS JUST 1.0 INCHES. THERE WERE
TWO DAYS OF MEASUREABLE SNOW THIS MONTH WITH 1.0 INCHES ON THE 1ST
AND 0.2 INCHES ON THE 19TH.
ROLLER/MURPHY
MAY 2022
...A WARM AND WET MONTH...
MAY BEGAN WITH AROUND AVERAGE TEMPERATURES UNTIL THE 8TH. MUCH ABOVE
NORMAL TEMPERATURES FOLLOWED FROM THE 10TH TO THE 15TH WITH AVERAGE
TEMPERATURES AS MUCH AS 10 TO 25 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. RECORD HIGH
TEMPERATURES WERE SET FROM THE 11TH TO THE 14TH FOR SOUTH BEND.
THESE ARE THE WARMEST AVERAGE TEMPERATURES THIS STRETCH OF 6 DAYS
HAS SEEN IN THE PERIOD OF RECORD. THE 90 DEGREE HIGH THAT OCCURRED
ON THE 11TH HELPED THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE BE AROUND 23 DEGREES
ABOVE NORMAL FOR THAT DAY. A VARIABLE PATTERN FOLLOWED FROM MID
MONTH UNTIL THE END OF MAY WITH A MIX OF ABOVE AND BELOW AVERAGE
TEMPERATURES INTO THE LATTER PART OF THE MONTH.
A WET START TO MAY BROUGHT 1.58 INCHES OF RAIN FROM THE 1ST TO 6TH
OF THE MONTH. FOLLOWING THIS STRETCH, A PERIOD OF MOSTLY DRY WEATHER
TOOK OVER THROUGH THE 13TH. AND, WHILE THERE WERE THREE DAYS THAT
RECEIVED GREATER THAN 0.25 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION (THE 18TH, 21ST,
AND 25TH), THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH TO RECOUP FROM THE MID-MONTH DRY
PERIOD SO WE ENDED UP BELOW NORMAL FOR PRECIPITATION.
ROLLER/MURPHY
JUNE
...A WARM BUT DRY MONTH...
JUNE BEGAN WITH NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE 12TH BEFORE TWO
PERIODS OF ABOVE NORMAL HIGH TEMPERATURES TOOK OVER FROM THE 13TH TO
THE 16TH AND FROM THE 20TH TO THE 22ND. THE MONTH FINISHED OUT WITH
AVERAGE TO BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES. A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS
SET ON THE 16TH (96 DEGREES, BEATING 95 IN 1918) AND A RECORD WARM
LOW TEMPERATURE WAS SET ON THE 15TH (77 DEGREES, BEATING 75 IN
1994). EIGHT DAYS THIS MONTH HAD MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES GREATER THAN
OR EQUAL TO 90 DEGREES ALLOWING THIS MONTH TO FINISH WITHIN THE TOP
15 MONTHS WITH THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF 90 DEGREE DAYS. THIS WARM
WEATHER HELPED SOUTH BEND TO FINISH OUT THE MONTH AS THE 41ST
WARMEST JUNE WHEN COMPARED TO THE PERIOD OF RECORD.
SOUTH BEND SAW ONLY THREE DAYS OF PRECIPITATION ABOVE 0.1 INCH (6TH-
1.09, 8TH-0.56, 13TH-0.19). IT ALSO HAD 26 DAYS WITH BELOW 0.1 INCH
OF RAIN: THE 16TH MOST WITHIN ITS PERIOD OF RECORD. THE 0.30 INCHES
OF PRECIPITATION OBSERVED FROM JUNE 14TH THROUGH 30TH IS THE 5TH
DRIEST FOR THAT PERIOD WHEN COMPARED TO THE PERIOD OF RECORD. THIS
HELPED THE MONTH FINISH AS THE 33RD DRIEST JUNE.
WITH THE WARM TEMPERATURES, MANY DAYS WITH PLENTY OF SUNSHINE, AND
MINIMAL PRECIPITATION, THE DROUGHT MONITOR BEGAN TO PICK UP SIGNS OF
DROUGHT. A FLASH DROUGHT WAS ALSO MENTIONED DUE TO THE QUICK ONSET
OF DROUGHT CONDITIONS.
STORMS, LATER CALLED A DERECHO, MOVED ACROSS THE AREA ON THE EVENING
OF THE 13TH LEAVING A TRAIL OF THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE BEHIND IT.
ROLLER
JULY
JULY FEATURED TWO PERIODS OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES: FROM THE 4TH
TO THE 8TH AND FROM THE 24TH TO THE 28TH. OTHERWISE TEMPERATURES
REMAINED AROUND AVERAGE FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. JULY FEATURED FOUR
DAYS WITH 90 DEGREES OR GREATER MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE, WHICH IS NORMAL
FOR THE MONTH. HOWEVER, SOUTH BEND SAW 18 DAYS WITH DEW POINT
GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 68 DEGREES, WHICH IS HIGHER THAN THE
MONTHLY AVERAGE OF 15 DAYS (DEW POINT DATA THROUGH 1948). THIS
COMBINATION OF SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES AND ABOVE AVERAGE
HUMIDITY RESULTED IN A MEAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 74.3 DEGREES,
WHICH IS 1.9 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL.
JULY BROUGHT FOUR DAYS OF PRECIPITATION GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 0.5
INCH, WHICH IS ABOVE THE JULY AVERAGE OF JUST OVER TWO DAYS.
SOUTH BEND SAW A RECORD RAINFALL ON THE 23RD (1.53 INCH). THIS
HELPED SOUTH BEND TO SURPASS ITS NORMAL JULY PRECIPITATION TOTAL OF
3.78 INCHES, ON ITS WAY TO A TOTAL OF 5.63 INCHES. THIS IS THE 20TH
WETTEST JULY ON RECORD. AS A RESULT OF THIS ABOVE NORMAL RAINFALL,
THE DROUGHT MONITOR`S D0 THAT STARTED JULY WAS REMOVED BY THE END OF
JULY.
ROLLER/BROWN
AUGUST
...TOP 30 WARMEST AND DRIEST...
AUGUST TEMPERATURES STARTED OUT WITH A SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL LEAN
THROUGH THE 8TH BEFORE A SLIGHT BELOW NORMAL LEAN TOOK OVER FROM THE
9TH TO 14TH. FOR THE MOST PART, A NEAR NORMAL LEAN OCCURRED FROM THE
MIDDLE TO LATTER PART OF THE MONTH. THE STRONG ABOVE NORMAL LEAN TO
START THE MONTH AT SOUTH BEND HELPED AUGUST FINISH OUT ABOUT 2.0
DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL, RANKING AS THE 26TH WARMEST AUGUST ON RECORD.
THERE WERE NO DAILY TEMPERATURE RECORDS SET THIS MONTH.
PRECIPITATION FINISHED NEARLY 2 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. DESPITE SEEING
0.1 INCH OR GREATER SIX DAYS THIS MONTH, WHICH IS GREATER THAN THE
MONTHLY AVERAGE OF FIVE DAYS, THE RAINFALL TOTALS THOSE DAYS WERE
STILL NOT ENOUGH TO PUSH THE MONTHLY TOTAL ABOVE THE MONTHLY NORMAL.
AS SUCH, THE MONTH FINISHED OUT AS THE 28TH DRIEST AUGUST WHEN
COMPARED TO THE PERIOD OF RECORD.
ROLLER/FISHER
SEPTEMBER 2022
SEPTEMBER WAS MILD, FEATURING TWO EPISODES WHERE TEMPERATURES IN THE
80S WERE COMMON. ONE OF THESE MILD PERIODS FEATURED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE REGION. FALL-LIKE TEMPERATURES SETTLED IN FOR
THE LAST WEEK OF THE MONTH WHERE HIGHS IN THE 60S WERE COMMON WITH
LOWS IN THE 40S. THE COLDEST LOW OF THE MONTH WAS 37 DEGREES ON THE
29TH. THERE WAS SOME PATCHY FROST IN OUTLYING AREAS. THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 65.6 DEGREES WHICH RANKS AS THE 46TH
WARMEST ON RECORD.
ABNORMALLY DRY CONDITIONS PREVAILED THIS MONTH IN NORTHWEST INDIANA,
ACCORDING TO THE US DROUGHT MONITOR. AUGUST PRECIPITATION ENDED 1.98
INCHES BELOW NORMAL, AND NOW SEPTEMBER ENDED 1.08 INCHES BELOW
NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 44TH DRIEST ON RECORD.
NO RECORDS WERE SET THIS MONTH.
BROWN
OCTOBER 2022
...DROUGHT CONDITIONS WORSEN, BUT LATE MONTH RAIN PROVIDES SOME
RELIEF...
OCTOBER FEATURED SEVERAL BEAUTIFUL AFTERNOONS PRECEDED BY CHILLY AND
SOMETIMES FROSTY MORNINGS. THE FIRST 20 DAYS OF THE MONTH FREQUENTLY
RECORDED A DAILY TEMPERATURE ANOMALY BELOW NORMAL. THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE FOR OCTOBER 1-20 WAS 50.9 DEGREES; THE 18TH COLDEST
(TIE) ON RECORD AND THE COLDEST FOR THIS STRETCH SINCE 2012 (50.9
DEGREES AS WELL). ONE RECORD WAS TIED DURING THAT PERIOD. THE HIGH
TEMPERATURE OF 43 ON THE 17TH TIED THE COLDEST HIGH TEMPERATURE SET
WAY BACK IN 1896.
THE FINAL 10 DAYS OF THE MONTH WERE A DIFFERENT STORY, WITH AN
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 56.5 DEGREES RANKING AS THE 14TH WARMEST ON
RECORD. IT WAS THE WARMEST AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THAT PERIOD SINCE
57.8 DEGREES IN 2000. OVERALL, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH
WAS 52.9 DEGREES WHICH IS 0.9 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL.
OCTOBER 17TH WAS WHEN THE FIRST SNOWFLAKES WERE OBSERVED THIS FALL.
THIS OCCURRED AS A STRONG LAKE EFFECT SNOW BAND MOVED INLAND,
DUMPING 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW OVER ALLEN (IN), ELKHART, KOSCIUSKO,
NOBLE, AND WHITLEY COUNTIES. ONLY A TRACE OF SNOW OCCURRED AT SOUTH
BEND. AS SUCH, SOUTH BEND STILL AWAITS ITS FIRST "MEASUREABLE"
SNOWFALL OF THE SEASON WHICH TYPICALLY OCCURS NEAR NOVEMBER 8TH.
DROUGHT WORSENED THROUGH OCTOBER IN MICHIANA. THE FIRST 15 DAYS OF
THE MONTH (0.57") WAS THE DRIEST START TO OCTOBER SINCE 2015
(0.12"). A SOAKING RAIN ARRIVED TO SOUTH BEND IN THE DAYS THAT
FOLLOWED, BUT LOCATIONS SOUTH OF HERE MISSED OUT. AS A RESULT, WHEN
THE OCTOBER 18TH EDITION OF THE U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR WAS RELEASED,
NORTHWEST INDIANA WAS DEEMED TO BE EXPERIENCING "MODERATE DROUGHT"
CONDITIONS. THIS AREA OF MODERATE DROUGHT EXPANDED SOUTHEAST THROUGH
THE STATE THE FOLLOWING WEEK.
BY THE END OF THE MONTH, SOUTH BEND RECEIVED ADDITIONAL RAIN AND THE
MONTHLY TOTAL WAS A HEALTHY 3.85 INCHES WHICH IS ACTUALLY 0.13
INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 41ST WETTEST OCTOBER ON
RECORD. IN THE WEEKS TO COME, IMPROVEMENT OF DROUGHT CONDITIONS ARE
EXPECTED. RECALL THAT OCTOBER 2021 RECORDED A WHOPPING 6.03 INCHES
OF PRECIPITATION WHICH NEGATIVELY IMPACTED FALL HARVEST.
BROWN
NOVEMBER 2022
...A WILD, MEMORABLE MONTH, JUST SHY OF A MONTHLY SNOWFALL RECORD...
AFTER A RECORD-WARM START TO THE MONTH (NOVEMBER 1-10 WAS THE 4TH
WARMEST ON RECORD WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 56.1 DEGREES), A
WINTER CHILL QUICKLY DESCENDED OVER THE REGION. SHORTS AND T-SHIRTS
WERE REPLACED WITH WINTER HATS AND GLOVES AS MORNING LOWS DIPPED TO
12 DEGREES ON THE 20TH. THE GREATEST SINGLE-DAY TEMPERATURE
DEPARTURE BELOW NORMAL WAS 18 DEGREES ON THE 20TH. MEANWHILE, BACK
ON THE 4TH, THE DAILY TEMPERATURE DEPARTURE WAS 23 DEGREES ABOVE
NORMAL.
THE COLD AIR RUSHING OVER A MILD LAKE MICHIGAN WATER TEMPERATURE
RESULTED IN INTENSE BOUTS OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW. ROUND ONE OCCURRED ON
THE 12TH AND 13TH TOTALING 7.5 INCHES. THE NEXT ROUND OCCURRED OVER
THE COURSE OF FIVE DAYS (16TH-20TH) AS LAKE EFFECT SNOW BANDS
WAVERED OVER THE REGION. THE FIVE-DAY TOTAL WAS A WHOPPING 22.7
INCHES. THIS IS THE GREATEST 5-DAY NOVEMBER TOTAL SINCE 1977.
REGARDLESS OF MONTH, THIS IS THE GREATEST 5-DAY TOTAL SINCE 30.4
INCHES ENDING ON JANUARY 12, 2011.
THE TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION THIS MONTH, 30.2 INCHES, IS ONLY ONE-
TENTH OF AN INCH SHY OF THE ALL-TIME NOVEMBER RECORD SET IN 1977.
30.2 INCHES IS A WHOPPING 25.1 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. TWO DAILY
SNOWFALL RECORD WERE SET: 1) 6.5 INCHES ON THE 18TH BROKE THE
PREVIOUS TOTAL OF 4.0 INCHES SET IN 1989. 2) 9.0 INCHES ON THE 20TH
SHATTERED THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 5.8 INCHES SET IN 2000.
FOLLOWING THE SNOW AND COLD, A MILD, MORE SEASONABLE AIRMASS
RETURNED. AS A RESULT, NOVEMBER ENDED 3.1 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL WITH
AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 42.9 DEGREES. THIS RANKS AS TIED WITH THE
NOVEMBER OF 1948 AND 1978 AS THE 25TH WARMEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD.
DROUGHT CONDITIONS OVER NORTHERN INDIANA WERE NEARLY STEADY THIS
MONTH; "ABNORMALLY DRY" TO "MODERATE DROUGHT" ACCORDING TO THE US
DROUGHT MONITOR. BUT, THE LAKE EFFECT PRECIPITATION DID BEGIN TO
EASE THE DROUGHT STARTING WITH ST. JOSEPH COUNTY. THE TOTAL
PRECIPITATION THIS MONTH WAS 3.41 INCHES WHICH IS 0.63 INCHES ABOVE
NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 37TH WETTEST ON RECORD.
TWO TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE TIED THIS MONTH, BOTH ON THE 10TH. THE
HIGH OF 75 AND THE LOW OF 55 BOTH TIED A RECORD SET IN 2020.
BROWN
DECEMBER 2022
...WINTER STORM BRINGS WIND, SNOW, AND ARCTIC AIR...
A WELL-ADVERTISED BLAST OF ARCTIC AIR CHILLED THE REGION, AND MUCH
OF THE UNITED STATES, IN THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS. WHILE NO
DAILY TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE BROKEN AT SOUTH BEND, IT WAS THE
FIRST TIME SINCE 2017 THAT DECEMBER RECORDED A TEMPERATURE BELOW
ZERO. THE ARCTIC FRONT FEATURED 35-45 MPH WIND GUSTS AND SNOW. THE
COLDEST WIND CHILL AT SOUTH BEND DURING THIS EVENT WAS -34 ON THE
MORNING OF THE 23RD. THE PEAK WIND GUST WAS 39 MPH THAT SAME
MORNING. WIND CHILLS ANYWHERE CLOSE TO THIS MAGNITUDE WERE LAST
RECORDED IN JANUARY 2019. SOUTH BEND RECORDED A WIND CHILL AS LOW AS
-48 ON THE MORNING OF JANUARY 30, 2019.
PRIOR TO THIS COLD AIR MASS, DECEMBER WAS MILD. THROUGH THE 16TH,
THE TEMPERATURE DEPARTURE WAS 4.3 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL (21ST WARMEST
ON RECORD FOR THAT PERIOD). BETWEEN THIS MILD START AND THIS ARCTIC
BLAST, THE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH ENDED ONLY 0.9 DEGREES ABOVE
THE NORMAL OF 29.6 DEGREES.
SOUTH BEND RECORDED 8.9 INCHES OF SNOW THIS MONTH, 6.4 INCHES WHICH
FELL FROM THE AFORMENTIONED STORM SYSTEM. THIS IS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE
SNOW THAN DECEMBER 2021 (1.5 INCHES), BUT RANKS AS THE 44TH LEAST
AMOUNT OF DECEMBER SNOW ON RECORD. THIS IS 4.8 INCHES BELOW NORMAL.
PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH TOTALED 1.52 INCHES. THIS IS 0.88 INCHES
BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 27TH DRIEST DECEMBER ON RECORD.
BROWN
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