Climatological Report (Monthly)
Issued by NWS
Issued by NWS
475 CXUS53 KIWX 011842 CLMSBN CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 242 PM EDT WED NOV 01 2023 ................................... ...THE SOUTH BEND CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2023... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1991 TO 2020 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1893 TO 2023 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE DATE(S) NORMAL ................................................................ TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 92 10/06/1963 LOW 12 10/11/1906 HIGHEST 88 10/03 MM MM 78 10/22 10/23 LOWEST 26 10/31 MM MM 30 10/20 10/27 AVG. MAXIMUM 63.2 61.8 1.4 64.3 AVG. MINIMUM 46.0 42.1 3.9 41.5 MEAN 54.6 52.0 2.6 DAYS MAX >= 90 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MIN <= 32 2 2.9 -0.9 2 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 9.75 1954 MINIMUM 0.42 1950 TOTALS 5.96 3.72 2.24 3.85 DAILY AVG. 0.19 0.12 0.07 0.12 DAYS >= .01 20 11.5 8.5 12 DAYS >= .10 13 7.1 5.9 9 DAYS >= .50 2 2.4 -0.4 2 DAYS >= 1.00 2 0.9 1.1 2 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 1.56 10/05 TO 10/05 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 15.0 1910 TOTALS 1.4 0.2 1.2 T SINCE 7/1 1.4 0.2 1.2 T SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 0 DAYS >= 1.0 1 0.0 1.0 0 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 0 24 HR TOTAL 1.4R 10/31 TO 10/31 DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 355 414 -59 373 SINCE 7/1 404 551 -147 472 COOLING TOTAL 40 9 31 6 SINCE 1/1 820 723 97 1001 ................................................................ WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 8.3 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 29/110 DATE 10/13 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 38/110 DATE 10/13 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.59 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 7 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 10 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 14 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 73 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 0 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 8 RAIN 10 LIGHT RAIN 18 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 1 LIGHT SNOW 1 SLEET 0 FOG 26 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 2 HAZE 4 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && 11TH WETTEST OCTOBER ON RECORD THERE WAS RECORD WARMTH TO BEGIN THE MONTH, AS NEW RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE SET ON OCTOBER 3RD AND 4TH WITH 87 AND 88 DEGREES RESPECTIVELY. MID-OCTOBER FEATURED NEAR TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THE LAST WEEK OF THE MONTH FEATURED A 40+ DEGREE TEMPERATURE SWING; A RECORD HIGH OF 82 WAS SET ON OCTOBER 24TH AND A WEEK LATER, THE 2ND COLDEST HALLOWEEN ON RECORD WAS OBSERVED WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 36 DEGREES. HALLOWEEN 2023 WAS THE COLDEST SINCE 1917! OVERALL, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 54.6 DEGREES. THIS IS 2.6 ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 37TH WARMEST OCTOBER ON RECORD. PRECIPITATION TOTALED 5.96 INCHES, WHICH WAS 2.24 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL AND WAS THE 11TH WETTEST OCTOBER ON RECORD FOR SOUTH BEND. TWO DAYS THIS MONTH HAD OVER AN INCH OF RAIN; OCTOBER 5TH (THE WETTEST DAY OF THE MONTH) HAD 1.56" AND OCTOBER 14TH HAD 1.24". THE FIRST SNOW OF THE SEASON FELL ON HALLOWEEN! SOUTH BEND MEASURED A TOTAL OF 1.4" FOR THE DAY, WHICH WAS 0.2" SHY OF TYING THE RECORD FOR THE SNOWIEST HALLOWEEN ON RECORD. THIS IS ONLY THE 6TH TIME SINCE RECORD KEEPING BEGAN IN 1893 THAT MEASURABLE SNOW HAS BEEN OBSERVED ON HALLOWEEN. A TOTAL OF 1.4" OF SNOW FOR THE MONTH IS 1.2" ABOVE NORMAL. OCTOBER 2023 RANKS AS THE 15TH SNOWIEST OCTOBER ON RECORD. DROUGHT CONDITIONS GRADUALLY IMPROVED THROUGHOUT THE MONTH WITH THE ABUNDANCE OF PRECIPITATION, WITH NO DROUGHT REMAINING BY HALLOWEEN. THERE WERE SEVERAL HARD FREEZES NEAR THE END OF THE MONTH, WHICH LED TO THE END OF THE GROWING SEASON. JOHNSON $$