Climatological Report (Seasonal) Issued by NWS
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CXUS53 KIWX 020114
CLSSBN
CLIMATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
914 PM EDT WED JUN 01 2022
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...THE SOUTH BEND CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE SEASON, FROM
3/1/2022 TO 5/31/2022...
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 97 05/27/2012
LOW -13 03/08/1943
HIGHEST 91 05/31 MM MM 89
LOWEST 15 03/12 MM MM 15
AVG. MAXIMUM 59.7 58.5 1.2 61.9
AVG. MINIMUM 40.1 37.5 2.6 39.3
MEAN 49.9 48.0 1.9
DAYS MAX >= 90 2 0.7 1.3 0
DAYS MAX <= 32 3 3.6 -0.6 0
DAYS MIN <= 32 29 30.6 -1.6 28
DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.1 -0.1 0
PRECIPITATION (INCHES)
RECORD
MAXIMUM 19.83 1976
MINIMUM 4.24 1971
TOTALS 9.98 10.04 -0.06 7.57
DAILY AVG. 0.11 0.11 0.00 0.08
DAYS >= .01 43 39.2 3.8 31
DAYS >= .10 25 21.4 3.6 18
DAYS >= .50 7 6.8 0.2 5
DAYS >= 1.00 0 1.7 -1.7 2
GREATEST
24 HR. TOTAL 1.08
SNOWFALL (INCHES)
RECORDS
TOTAL 34.6 1960
24 HR TOTAL 0.5 04/01/2021 TO 04/01/2021
TOTALS 7.3 7.8 -0.5 0.7
SINCE 7/1 56.0 64.5 -8.5 MM
SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 -1
DAYS >= TRACE 17 6.6 10.4 5
DAYS >= 1.0 4 2.3 1.7 0
GREATEST
SNOW DEPTH 4 03/11 0
24 HR TOTAL MM
DEGREE DAYS
HEATING TOTAL 1479 1624 -145 1397
SINCE 7/1 5767 6358 -591 MM
COOLING TOTAL 117 55 62 94
SINCE 1/1 117 56 61 MM
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WIND (MPH)
AVERAGE WIND SPEED 10.7
HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 43/240 DATE 04/14
HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 62/250 DATE 04/14
SKY COVER
POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM
AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.51
NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 34
NUMBER OF DAYS PC 30
NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 28
AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 65
WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH
THUNDERSTORM 8 MIXED PRECIP 0
HEAVY RAIN 9 RAIN 18
LIGHT RAIN 41 FREEZING RAIN 0
LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0
HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 5
LIGHT SNOW 14 SLEET 0
FOG 42 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 2
HAZE 21
- INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.
R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.
MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.
T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.
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SPRING 2022
THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 49.9 DEGREES IS 1.9 DEGREES ABOVE THE
NORMAL OF 48.0 DEGREES. THIS TIES AS THE 26TH WARMEST SPRING ON
RECORD ALONG WITH 1981, 1964, 1929, AND 1898. PRECIPITATION TOTALED
9.98 INCHES WHICH IS 0.06 INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL OF 10.04 INCHES.
THIS RANKS AS THE 62TH WETTEST SPRING ON RECORD. SNOW TOTALED 7.3
INCHES WHICH IS 0.5 INCH BELOW THE NORMAL OF 7.8 INCHES. THIS IS THE
53RD LEAST SNOWIEST SPRING ON RECORD. THIS IS THE MOST SNOWIEST
SPRING SINCE 9.1 INCHES OF SNOW FELL IN THE SPRING OF 2018.
ACCORDING TO THE U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR, NO DROUGHT WAS NOTED
THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF THE SPRING SEASON.
A MONTH BY MONTH SUMMARY IS BELOW.
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.
APRIL 2022
COOLER AND SLIGHTLY MORE SNOW THAN NORMAL
THIS MONTH CONTAINED UPS AND DOWNS AS FAR AS TEMPERATURE GOES, BUT
DESPITE A PLEASANT WARM UP BETWEEN THE 21ST AND THE 24TH, THE MONTH
STILL FINISHED BELOW NORMAL FOR MEAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURES. DUE TO
THE AFOREMENTIONED LATER MONTH WARM UP, THE GROWING SEASON STARTED
IN THE AREA AND A FREEZE WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR THE MORNING OF THE
27TH WITH A LOW TEMPERATURES OF 27 DEGREES RECORDED, ONE DEGREE
ABOVE THE RECORD LOW FOR THAT DATE.
SOUTH BEND HAD A SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL APRIL WHEN IT COMES TO
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.
MARCH 2022
WARM WITH ABOVE AVERAGE PRECIPITATION
AS IS USUALLY THE CASE FOR SPRING, TEMPERATURES WERE TOPSY-TURVY. AS
SUCH, SOUTH BEND HAD A FEW TASTES OF SPRING DURING THIS MONTH AS
TEMPERATURES ROSE INTO THE 70S ON 4 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 CONTAINED THE 5TH WARMEST
MEAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WHEN COMPARED TO THE SAME TIME FRAME 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; AT ALMOST
19 DEGREES WARMER THAN 50.2 DEGREES.
THIS MONTH`S ABOVE AVERAGE PRECIPITATION TOTAL OF 3.22 INCHES WAS
ATTAINED THROUGH SMALL DAILY CHIPS AWAY AT THE TOTAL. 2 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 GET NEAR ITS MARCH AVERAGE
SNOWFALL TOTAL WHEN IT REACHED 6.1 INCHES OF SNOW, JUST 7 TENTHS SHY
OF THE NORMAL AVERAGE SNOWFALL OF 6.8 INCHES.
ROLLER/MURPHY/MORRIS/FISHER
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