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CXUS53 KIWX 011459
CLSFWA

CLIMATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1059 AM EDT SUN SEP 01 2024

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...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE SEASON, FROM
6/1/2024 TO 8/31/2024...

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
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TEMPERATURE (F)
RECORD
 HIGH            106   06/28/2012
                       06/25/1988
                       07/14/1936
 LOW              36   06/02/1910
HIGHEST           97   06/17         82      15       92
LOWEST            46   06/11         61     -15       46
AVG. MAXIMUM    83.6               82.4     1.2     81.9
AVG. MINIMUM    62.1               61.7     0.4     59.8
MEAN            72.9               72.0     0.9
DAYS MAX >= 90    15               13.1     1.9       10
DAYS MAX <= 32     0                0.0     0.0        0
DAYS MIN <= 32     0                0.0     0.0        0
DAYS MIN <= 0      0                0.0     0.0        0

PRECIPITATION (INCHES)
RECORD
 MAXIMUM       21.52   2015
 MINIMUM        5.00   2012
TOTALS          6.73              12.33   -5.60     9.15
DAILY AVG.      0.07               0.13   -0.06     0.10
DAYS >= .01       28               30.8    -2.8       26
DAYS >= .10       17               20.3    -3.3       18
DAYS >= .50        4                8.0    -4.0        7
DAYS >= 1.00       0                3.6    -3.6        1
GREATEST
 24 HR. TOTAL   0.84   08/02 TO 08/02

SNOWFALL (INCHES)
RECORDS
 TOTAL            MM   MM
 24 HR TOTAL      MM
TOTALS           0.0                0.0     0.0      0.0
SINCE 7/1        0.0                0.0     0.0      0.0
SNOWDEPTH AVG.     0                                   0
DAYS >= TRACE      0                0.0     0.0        0
DAYS >= 1.0        0                0.0     0.0        0
GREATEST
 SNOW DEPTH        0                                   0
 24 HR TOTAL     0.0

DEGREE DAYS
HEATING TOTAL     13                 35     -22       32
 SINCE 7/1         8                  5       3        6
COOLING TOTAL    762                681      81      599
 SINCE 1/1       864                751     113      656
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WIND (MPH)
AVERAGE WIND SPEED              6.8
HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION    43/240    DATE  06/05
HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION    54/280    DATE  07/16

SKY COVER
POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT)   MM
AVERAGE SKY COVER           0.54
NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR           25
NUMBER OF DAYS PC             43
NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY         24

AVERAGE RH (PERCENT)     70

WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH
THUNDERSTORM             19     MIXED PRECIP               0
HEAVY RAIN               11     RAIN                      12
LIGHT RAIN               34     FREEZING RAIN              0
LT FREEZING RAIN          0     HAIL                       0
HEAVY SNOW                0     SNOW                       0
LIGHT SNOW                0     SLEET                      0
FOG                      39     FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE      1
HAZE                      5

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

&&

...WARM AND VERY DRY SUMMER...

SUMMER 2024 WAS BOOKENDED BY TWO HEATWAVES, AN EARLY SEASON ONE IN
MID JUNE AND A LATE SEASON ONE IN LATE AUGUST. SURPRINSINGLY, MUCH
OF THE SUMMER OUTSIDE OF THESE HEATWAVES FEATURED SEASONABLE TO
COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES. TYPICALLY, THE PEAK OF SUMMER HEAT
OCCURS IN MID JULY TO EARLY AUGUST. HOWEVER, THAT WAS NOT THE CASE
THIS YEAR, AS THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR IN FORT WAYNE ACTUALLY
HAPPENED ON JUNE 17TH, WHEN A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 97 DEGREES WAS
OBSERVED! THE LAST TIME THE HOTTEST SUMMER DAY OCCURRED IN JUNE WAS
ON JUNE 14 AND 21, 2022, WHEN IT REACHED 96 DEGREES. THERE WERE 15
90+ DEGREE DAYS IN FORT WAYNE THIS SUMMER, WITH 8 IN JUNE, NONE IN
JULY, AND 7 IN AUGUST. THIS IS RARE TO HAVE ZERO 90+ DEGREE DAYS IN
JULY; IT HAS ONLY HAPPENED 12 TIMES SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1897!
OVERALL, SUMMER 2024 HAD AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 72.8 DEGREES,
WHICH IS 0.8 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND TIES AS THE 37TH WARMEST ON
RECORD.

ANY APPRECIABLE RAINFALL THIS SUMMER WAS FOUND MAINLY IN DAILY POP-
UP SHOWERS AND STORMS, AND UNFORTUNATELY, MANY OF THOSE STORMS
MISSED THE FORT WAYNE AIRPORT. THERE WERE NO DAYS WITH A RAINFALL
TOTAL OVER AN INCH; THE HIGHEST 1 DAY TOTAL WAS 0.84", WHICH FELL ON
AUGUST 2ND. THE SUMMER WAS NOTABLY DRY AND LACKED WIDESPREAD RAIN,
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE BERYL THAT MOVED
THROUGH ON JULY 9TH AND 10TH. THE 2 DAY TOTAL OF 1.06" AT THE FORT
WAYNE AIRPORT WAS NEARLY A SIXTH OF THE TOTAL RAINFALL FOR THE
ENTIRE SUMMER! MODERATE DROUGHT DID START TO DEVELOP BY THE END OF
THE SUMMER JUST SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE, WITH SUBSTANSTIAL DRYNESS NOTED
IN YARDS AND CREEKS. FORT WAYNE RECEIVED ONLY 6.73" OF RAIN THIS
SUMMER, WHICH IS 5.60" BELOW NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 16TH DRIEST
SUMMER ON REOCRD. THIS WAS THE DRIEST SUMMER SINCE 1999, WHEN 5.24"
FELL.

A MONTH BY MONTH SUMMARY IS BELOW:

...WARMER AND DRIER THAN NORMAL JUNE...

JUNE 2024 WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR ONE OF THE EARLIEST LONG DURATION
HEATWAVES ON RECORD. FROM JUNE 16TH TO 22ND, 7 DAYS WITH HIGHS 90+
DEGREES WERE RECORDED, WHICH TIED FOR THE 4TH LONGEST JUNE STRETCH
OF 90+ DEGREE DAYS IN FORT WAYNE. OF THOSE 7 DAYS, 3 OF THEM HAD
HIGHS 95+ DEGREES, WHICH WAS THE 2ND LONGEST JUNE STRETCH OF DAYS
95+. NOT ONLY WERE THE HIGH TEMPERATURES IMPRESSIVE, BUT THE LOW
TEMPERATURES WERE TRULY UNPRECEDENTED; THERE WERE 4 NIGHTS OF
CONSECUTIVE RECORD BREAKING WARM LOW TEMPERATURES FROM JUNE 17TH TO
20TH. THIS STREAK TIED THE LONGEST STRETCH OF CONSECUTIVE WARM
RECORD LOWS IN FORT WAYNE`S HISTORY! THE LAST TIME 4 CONSECUTIVE
DAYS OF NEW WARM RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES WERE SET WAS JULY 11-14,
1936! OVERALL, JUNE 2024 FINISHED WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF
73.4 DEGREES, WHICH IS 2.7 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS WAS THE 13TH
WARMEST JUNE ON RECORD AND THE WARMEST JUNE SINCE 2010!

WITH A HOT AND DRY STRETCH OF DAYS MID-MONTH, THIS LED TO FLASH
DROUGHT CONCERNS DEVELOPING. WHILE FORT WAYNE WAS NEVER OFFICIALLY
IN A DROUGHT IN JUNE 2024, THE LACK OF RAIN WAS NOTICEABLE IN FIELDS
AND YARDS. THERE WAS A LACK OF WIDESPREAD RAINFALL THROUGHOUT THE
MONTH WITH THE HIGHEST ONE DAY TOTAL OF 0.74" ON JUNE 29TH. ANY
APPRECIABLE RAINFALL THIS MONTH WAS FOUND MAINLY IN DAILY POP-UP
SHOWERS AND STORMS, AND UNFORTUNATELY, MANY OF THOSE STORMS MISSED
THE FORT WAYNE AIRPORT. JUNE ENDED WITH A TOTAL OF 2.63" OF RAIN,
WHICH IS 1.85" BELOW NORMAL. THIS WAS THE 38TH DRIEST JUNE ON RECORD.


...COOLEST JULY IN 9 YEARS...

A NOTABLE LACK OF 90-DEGREE DAYS AND A WHOPPING 19 DAYS THIS MONTH
WHERE THE AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE DEPARTURE WAS BELOW NORMAL,
RESULTED IN AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE 1.3 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS
RANKS AS THE 38TH COOLEST JULY ON RECORD. IT IS THE COOLEST JULY
SINCE 71.7 DEGREES IN JULY 2015

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE JULY 2021, THERE WERE NO 90-DEGREE DAYS
OBSERVED IN JULY. THE MONTH TYPICALLY HAS SIX 90-DEGREE DAYS.
INSTEAD, THE MAXIMUM OBSERVED TEMPERATURE THIS MONTH WAS 88. 2009
WAS THE LAST TIME THAT JULY`S MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE WAS 88 DEGREES OR
LESS (87 DEGREES IN 2009).

REMNANTS OF HURRICANE BERYL MOVED THROUGH THE AREA ON JULY 9TH AND
10TH. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL OCCURRED WEST OF FORT WAYNE, HOWEVER.
FORT WAYNE RECORDED 1.06 INCHES TOTAL DURING THOSE TWO DATES.
ELSEWHERE IN THE FORECAST AREA, TRAINED SPOTTERS, COCORAHS
OBSERVERS, AND THE PUBLIC REPORTED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 INCHES TO
NEARLY 9 INCHES OF RAIN THROUGH JULY 10TH. SEVERAL REPORTS OF
FLOODING WERE RECEIVED. WIND GUSTS OF 35 MPH TO 45 MPH RESULTED IN
UPROOTED TREES THANKS TO THE SATURATED SOIL.

FORT WAYNE RECORDED 2.14 INCHES OF RAIN WHICH IS 1.91 INCHES BELOW
NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 22ND DRIEST ON RECORD. THIS IS THE DRIEST
JULY SINCE 1.12 INCHES IN 2016.

THERE WERE NO RECORDS SET THIS MONTH.


...WARM AND VERY DRY AUGUST...

ALTHOUGH THERE WERE SEVERAL COOLER THAN NORMAL DAYS MID-MONTH, AFTER
A STRETCH OF VERY HOT AND HUMID DAYS TO END THE MONTH, IT COMES WITH
NO SURPRISE THAT AUGUST ENDED UP WARMER THAN NORMAL. THERE WERE 7
DAYS THIS MONTH WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE AT OR ABOVE 90 DEGREES. THIS
WAS THE MOST 90+ DEGREES DAYS IN AUGUST SINCE 2016; THE NORMAL
AMOUNT OF 90+ DEGREE DAYS IN AUGUST IS 4 DAYS. THE HOTTEST
TEMPERATURE THIS MONTH WAS 96 DEGREES (ON AUGUST 27TH, WHICH WAS THE
HOTTEST AUGUST DAY SINCE IT REACHED 97 DEGREES ON AUGUST 13, 1995!
OVERALL, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 72.6 DEGREES, WHICH IS 1.0
DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND TIES AS THE 38TH WARMEST AUGUST ON RECORD.

TWO NEW HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE SET THIS MONTH AT FORT WAYNE.
THE HIGH OF 96 DEGREES ON AUGUST 27TH TIED THE DAILY RECORD OF 96,
WHICH WAS SET IN 1948. ADDITIONALLY, THE HIGH TEMPERATURE 94 DEGREES
ON AUGUST 30TH TIED THE DAILY RECORD OF 94, WHICH HAD BEEN
PREVIOUSLY SET IN 1993, 1953, 1932, 1925, AND 1902.

THERE WAS A NOTABLE LACK OF WIDESPREAD RAIN ACROSS THE AREA IN
AUGUST. SCATTERED POP-UP SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE VERY HIT OR MISS,
WHICH LED TO A RAINFALL DEFECIT AND, BY THE END OF THE MONTH, THE
DEVELOPMENT OF MODERATE DROUGHT CONDITIONS SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE. FORT
WAYNE RECIEVED 1.96" OF RAIN IN AUGUST, WHICH IS JUST OVER 50% OF
THE NORMAL AMOUNT. THIS WAS THE DRIEST AUGUST SINCE 2005 WHEN 1.95"
FELL. THERE WERE NO DAYS THIS MONTH WITH OVER AN INCH OF RAINFALL; T
HE HIGHEST 24 HOUR TOTAL WAS ON AUGUST 2ND WITH 0.84". THE MONTH
ENDED 1.84" BELOW NORMAL AND TIES AS THE 23RD DRIEST AUGUST ON
RECORD.

BROWN/JOHNSON

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