Climatological Report (Annual)
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
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CXUS53 KIWX 011009
CLAFWA
CLIMATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
509 AM EST WED JAN 01 2025
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...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR OF 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 -24 01/12/1918
HIGHEST 97 06/17 MM MM 92
LOWEST -6 01/15 MM MM 4
AVG. MAXIMUM 64.3 60.3 4.0 63.0
AVG. MINIMUM 44.5 41.4 3.1 42.9
MEAN 54.4 50.9 3.5
DAYS MAX >= 90 18 15.7 2.3 12
DAYS MAX <= 32 21 39.7 -18.7 9
DAYS MIN <= 32 94 123.6 -29.6 106
DAYS MIN <= 0 3 6.2 -3.2 0
PRECIPITATION (INCHES)
RECORD
MAXIMUM 54.58 1990
MINIMUM 24.40 1962
TOTALS 35.43 39.48 -4.05 34.34
DAILY AVG. 0.10 0.11 -0.01 0.09
DAYS >= .01 130 135.4 -5.4 124
DAYS >= .10 80 77.3 2.7 68
DAYS >= .50 19 25.2 -6.2 22
DAYS >= 1.00 5 8.9 -3.9 7
SNOWFALL (INCHES)
RECORDS
TOTAL 68.6 2014
TOTALS 13.7 33.6 -19.9 15.6
SINCE 7/1 3.0 9.6 -6.6 0.9
SNOWDEPTH AVG. T 0
DAYS >= TRACE 49 34.0 15.0 38
DAYS >= 1.0 6 10.7 -4.7 4
GREATEST
SNOW DEPTH 3 01/20 7
DEGREE DAYS
HEATING TOTAL 4797 5968 -1171 5041
SINCE 7/1 1828 2257 -429 1868
COOLING TOTAL 1023 849 174 766
SINCE 1/1 1023 849 174 766
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WIND (MPH)
AVERAGE WIND SPEED 8.9
HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 45/230 DATE 05/24
HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 59/230 DATE 05/24
SKY COVER
POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM
AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.62
NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 75
NUMBER OF DAYS PC 150
NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 141
AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 70
WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH
THUNDERSTORM 44 MIXED PRECIP 2
HEAVY RAIN 32 RAIN 52
LIGHT RAIN 140 FREEZING RAIN 1
LT FREEZING RAIN 4 HAIL 1
HEAVY SNOW 2 SNOW 2
LIGHT SNOW 49 SLEET 4
FOG 179 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 18
HAZE 28
- INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.
R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.
MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.
T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.
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... WARMEST YEAR EVER AND SIXTH LEAST AMOUNT OF SNOW ON RECORD...
THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS 54.4 DEGREES WHICH IS 3.5
DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 50.9 DEGREES. SINCE 1897 WHEN RECORDS
BEGAN, 2024 RANKS AS THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD FOR FORT WAYNE! THE
PREVIOUS WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD WAS 1921 WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE
OF 53.9 DEGREES. THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS 97 DEGREES
ON JUNE 17TH. THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS -6 DEGREES ON
JANUARY 15TH. THE AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE THIS YEAR WAS 64.3
DEGREES, WHICH RANKS AS THE 2ND WARMEST ONLY BEHIND 2012, WHICH HAD
AN AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 64.5 DEGREES. THE AVERAGE LOW
TEMPERATURE THIS YEAR WAS 44.5 DEGREES, WHICH RANKS AS THE 3RD
WARMEST.
THE TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE YEAR WAS 35.43 INCHES. THIS IS 4.05
INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL OF 39.48 INCHES. THIS RANKS AS THE 58TH
WETTEST YEAR ON RECORD AND IS THE WETTEST SINCE 2021.
TOTAL SNOWFALL FOR THE YEAR WAS 13.7 INCHES, WHICH IS 19.9 INCHES
BELOW THE NORMAL OF 33.6. THIS IS THE 6TH LEAST AMOUNT OF SNOW ON
RECORD. THIS IS THE LEAST AMOUNT OF SNOW SINCE 11.9 INCHES IN 2001.
NOTABLE WEATHER EVENTS THIS YEAR INCLUDE:
- WINTER 2023-2024 WAS THE 2ND WARMEST ON RECORD
- WETTEST APRIL ON RECORD WITH 7.39 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION
- EARLY SUMMER HEATWAVE IN MID-JUNE BROUGHT SEVERAL DAYS OF RECORD
HIGHS AND RECORD WARM LOWS; THE 4 CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS OF RECORD WARM
LOWS IN MID-JUNE TIED FOR THE LONGEST STRETCH OF RECORD WARM LOWS ON
RECORD
- 3RD DRIEST OCTOBER ON RECORD WITH ONLY 0.43 INCHES OF PRECIPIATION
- RECORD HIGHS IN THE LOW 80S AT THE END OF OCTOBER
- 70% OF THE FORECAST AREA WAS EXPERIENCING MODERATE DROUGHT IN
SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER
- FORT WAYNE SET A NEW ALL-TIME NOVEMBER RECORD WARM LOW TEMPERATURE
OF 64 DEGREES ON NOVEMBER 5TH
- AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2024 IT HAS BEEN SINCE MAY 7TH (239 DAYS) SINCE
AN INCH OF PRECIPITATION FELL IN A SINGLE DAY AT FORT WAYNE; THIS IS
THE 9TH LONGEST STRETCH OF DAYS WITHOUT AN INCH OF PRECIPIATION ON
RECORD
JOHNSON
A MONTH BY MONTH SUMMARY IS BELOW:
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 JANUARY ON RECORD. RECORDS
BEGAN IN 1897.
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.
THE HIGHEST DAILY PRECIPITATION TOTAL WAS 1.28". BEFORE JANUARY 9TH,
IT HAD BEEN 173 DAYS WITHOUT A DAILY PRECIPITATION TOTAL OVER AN
INCH! 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/JOHNSON
FORT WAYNE FEBRUARY 2024
...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
...A WET AND TOP 10 WARMEST START TO SPRING...
MUCH LIKE FEBRUARY, ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES CONTINUED THROUGH
MARCH, ESPECIALLY DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE MONTH. 14 OF THE
FIRST 15 DAYS OF MARCH HAD AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE ABOVE NORMAL.
TYPICALLY, THERE ARE 6 DAYS WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE AT OR ABOVE 60
DEGREES IN MARCH; THIS YEAR, THERE WERE 11 60+ DEGREE DAYS IN FORT
WAYNE (THIS INCLUDES TWO DAYS WITH HIGHS IN THE 70S). ONE NEW HIGH
TEMPERATURE RECORD WAS SET THIS MONTH; THE HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 73
DEGREES ON MARCH 13 TIED THE RECORD DAILY HIGH SET IN 2007. OVERALL,
THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR MARCH WAS 44.8 DEGREES, WHICH IS 6.2
DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS WAS THE WARMEST MARCH SINCE 2012. MARCH
2024 RANKS AS THE 7TH WARMEST MARCH ON RECORD. RECORDS DATE BACK TO
1897.
ALTHOUGH MANY DAYS THIS MONTH DID NOT HAVE MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION,
THE MONTH OVERALL WAS STILL ABOVE AVERAGE. THIS IS BECAUSE MUCH OF
THE MONTH`S RAINFALL FELL IN ONE DAY! MARCH 14TH MEASURED 2.12"!
THIS WAS THE MOST RAIN IN 24 HOURS IN FORT WAYNE SINCE JULY 5, 2022,
WHICH HAD 2.83". MARCH 14TH ALSO SET A NEW DAILY RAINFALL RECORD,
BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 0.94" SET IN 1997. MARCH 14, 2024
WAS THE 5TH WETTEST MARCH DAY ON RECORD! OVERALL, THE MONTH TOTALED
4.12 INCHES OF RAIN, WHICH IS 1.31 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS WAS THE
25TH WETTEST MARCH ON RECORD.
DUE TO THE WARM TEMPERATURES, SNOWFALL WAS NOTABLY LACKING IN MARCH.
ONLY 0.7" OF SNOW WAS MEASURED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MONTH, WHICH IS
3.9" BELOW AVERAGE. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL OCCASIONS WHERE ONLY A
TRACE OF SNOW HAS BEEN RECORDED IN MARCH, SO THIS IS NOT A RECORD.
MARCH 2024 TIES FOR THE 22ND LEAST SNOWIEST ON RECORD AND IS THE
LEAST SNOWIEST MARCH SINCE 2021.
JOHNSON
....WETTEST APRIL ON RECORD, 12TH WARMEST....
IN TYPICAL SPRING FASHION, APRIL FEATURED LOTS OF TEMPERATURE SWINGS
AND FLUCTUATIONS. THERE WERE 10 DAYS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES 70+
DEGREES THIS MONTH AND THERE WERE ALSO 4 DAYS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES
IN THE 40S THIS MONTH. MILD NIGHTS CONTRIBUTED TO APRIL 2024 BEING
WARMER THAN NORMAL, WITH SEVERAL NIGHTS WITH LOWS IN THE 50S AND
60S. A NEW RECORD WARM LOW TEMPERATURE OF 62 DEGREES WAS SET ON
APRIL 29TH, BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 61 DEGREES SET IN 1991.
OVERALL, THE MONTH FINISHED WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 53.5
DEGREES, WHICH IS 3.3 DEGREES WARMER THAN NORMAL. THIS WAS THE 12TH
WARMEST APRIL AND THE WARMEST APRIL SINCE 2017.
A SERIES OF LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS PASSING THROUGH THE MIDWEST LED TO
A VERY WET AND SOGGY APRIL. IN FACT, FORT WAYNE HAD THE WETTEST
APRIL ON RECORD! OVER 7 INCHES OF RAIN FELL, WHICH HAS ONLY HAPPENED
4 TIMES IN APRIL SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1897. OTHER APRILS WITH OVER
7 INCHES OF RAINFALL INCLUDE 1944, 1957, AND 2013. TWO DAYS THIS
MONTH HAD OVER AN INCH OF RAINFALL; APRIL 1ST AND APRIL 11TH. A NEW
DAILY RECORD RAINFALL OF 1.81 INCHES WAS SET ON APRIL 1ST, WHICH
BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 1.69 INCHES SET IN 1959. IN TOTAL, 7.39
INCHES OF RAIN FELL THIS MONTH, WHICH IS 3.65 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL
AND NEARLY DOUBLE THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TOTAL! APRIL WAS THE WETTEST
MONTH SINCE AUGUST 2018 WHEN 7.77 INCHES OF RAIN FELL. IN ADDITION,
THIS WAS THE WETTEST APRIL SINCE 2013 WHEN 7.10 INCHES OF RAIN FELL.
THE PREVIOUS APRIL MONTHLY RECORD RAINFALL WAS 7.19 INCHES IN 1944.
THERE WAS ONLY A TRACE OF SNOW THIS MONTH, WHICH IS UNSURPRISING
GIVEN THE WARM TEMPERATURES. THIS IS 0.8 INCHES BELOW AVERAGE. APRIL
2024 IS TIED FOR THE 10TH LEAST SNOWIEST APRIL ON RECORD. THE LAST
TIME MEASURABLE SNOW OCCURRED IN APRIL WAS IN 2022.
JOHNSON
...10TH WARMEST MAY ON RECORD...
PICKING UP WHERE APRIL ENDED, MAY BEGAN UNSEASONABLY WARM WITH HIGH
TEMPERATURES CROSS THE 80-DEGREE MARK ON THE 1ST AND 2ND. THE MONTH
WAS MILD OVERALL WITH ONLY SEVEN DATES RECORDING AN AVERAGE DAILY
TEMPERATURE DEPARTURE BELOW NORMAL (INCLUDING THE FINAL FIVE DAYS OF
MAY). THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE THIS MONTH, 90 DEGREES ON THE 21ST,
WAS THE 20TH EARLIEST 90-DEGREE DAY ON RECORD. THIS WAS ALSO TWO
DEGREES SHY OF THE RECORD SET IN 1977. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR
THE MONTH WAS 66.2 DEGREES WHICH IS 4.9 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS
IS THE 10TH WARMEST ON RECORD. LIKE SOUTH BEND, THIS IS THE WARMEST
MAY IN SIX YEARS (2018 WAS THE WARMEST MAY ON RECORD AT FORT WAYNE
WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 68.2 DEGREES).
RAINFALL TOTALED 4.42 INCHES, JUST 0.16 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS
TIES 1981 AND 1928 AS THE 32TH WETTEST ON RECORD. THE MAXIMUM DAILY
TOTAL WAS 1.38 INCHES ON THE 7TH.
THE PEAK WIND GUST RECORDED OF 59 MPH ON THE 24TH OCCURRED AS
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH THE AREA. NO DAMAGE WAS
REPORTED.
NO RECORDS WERE SET THIS MONTH.
BROWN
...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.
JOHNSON
JULY 2024
...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.
BROWN
...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 DEFICIT AND, BY THE END OF THE MONTH, THE
DEVELOPMENT OF MODERATE DROUGHT CONDITIONS SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE. FORT
WAYNE RECEIVED 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.
JOHNSON
...SEPTEMBER...
DRY WEATHER FROM AUGUST CONTINUED ON INTO SEPTEMBER. FORT WAYNE WAS
FORTUNATE TO RECEIVE 0.47 INCHES ON THE 6TH AS A COLD FRONT MOVED
THROUGH. AREAS WEST AND NORTH WERE NOT SO FORTUNATE. DRY WEATHER
WOULD PERSIST FOR ANOTHER 13 DAYS. DURING THIS STRETCH OF DRY
WEATHER LAWNS WENT DORMANT, CREEKS, STREAMS, AND PONDS WERE VERY
LOW, CROPS DRIED DOWN QUICKLY, AND SOME FIELD FIRES WERE REPORTED.
DROUGHT CONDITIONS, AS REPORTED BY THE US DROUGHT MONITOR, WORSENED
RAPIDLY. AT THE END OF AUGUST, ONLY 13% OF THE FORECAST AREA WAS
DEEMED TO BE EXPERIENCING "MODERATE DROUGHT" CONDITIONS. BY
SEPTEMBER 17TH, THE NUMBER BALLOONED TO NEARLY 71% OF THE AREA. A
PORTION OF NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHEAST INDIANA WAS WORSE OFF, WITH
"SEVERE DROUGHT". MUCH NEEDED RAIN SOON FOLLOWED.
THE STAGNANT UPPER-LEVEL RIDGE WHICH WAS PARKED OVER THE EASTERN
GREAT LAKES WAS FINALLY DISPLACED AND A PALTRY 0.02" OF RAIN WAS
MEASURED ON THE 20TH. THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED WERE VERY ACTIVE WITH
NOT ONLY RAIN, BUT HAZARDOUS WEATHER IN THE FORM OF MICROBURSTS AND
TORNADOES AS WELL. JUST SHY OF 0.75 INCHES OF RAIN FELL FROM THE
22ND THROUGH 25TH. NOT DROUGHT-BUSTING, BUT CERTAINLY WELCOME
RAINFALL. TO FINISH OFF THE MONTH, THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE HELENE
ARRIVED OVER THE MIDWEST BRINGING ADDITIONAL DROUGHT RELIEF.
DURING THAT STRETCH OF DRY WEATHER, HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S AND
EVEN 90 WERE COMMON. FORT WAYNE RECORDED TWO 90-DEGREE DAYS (SAME AS
2021) AND AN IMPRESSIVE 16 DAYS WITH A HIGH OF 80 DEGREES OR WARMER
(THE MOST SINCE 2018 WITH 16 DAYS ALSO OBSERVED). THESE UNSEASONABLY
WARM TEMPERATURES WERE IN CONTRAST TO SEPTEMBER 8TH WHEN THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE DEPARTURE WAS 12 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. DESPITE THESE
UNSEASONABLE TEMPERATURES, NO RECORDS WERE SET.
THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 68.6 DEGREES. THIS IS 3.8
DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND TIES (1941) AS THE 13TH WARMEST ON RECORD.
PRECIPITATION TOTALED 1.42 INCHES WHICH IS 1.62 INCHES BELOW NORMAL
AND RANKS AS THE 23RD DRIEST ON RECORD.
BROWN/FISHER
...3RD DRIEST OCTOBER ON RECORD; TOP 20 WARMEST...
FORT WAYNE WAS INCREDIBLY DRY THIS MONTH. DATING BACK TO THE 30TH OF
SEPTEMBER, FORT WAYNE WENT 15 DAYS WITHOUT MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION.
A GENERALLY UNHELPFUL 0.01" WAS RECORDED ON THE 15TH, TECHNICALLY
SNAPPING THE DRY STREAK. IT WOULD BE ANOTHER NINE DAYS UNTIL RAIN
RETURNED, THIS TIME 0.34 INCHES ON THE 25TH. BY THE 30TH, FORT WAYNE
WAS ON PACE TO RECORD ITS 3RD DRIEST OCTOBER ON RECORD WITH ONLY
0.35 INCHES (0.34" IN 1924 AND 0.14 INCHES IN 1964). THE 3RD DAY
WITH MEASURABLE RAINFALL THIS MONTH CAME ON HALLOWEEN, WHEN 0.08"
FELL. WITH ONLY 3 DAYS THIS MONTH WITH MEASURABLE RAINFALL, OCTOBER
2024 IS TIED WITH 1908, 1963, AND 1964 AS THE LEAST AMOUNT OF DAYS
WITH MEASURABLE IN OCTOBER EVER. ALL IN ALL, A MEASLY 0.43 INCHES OF
PRECIPITATION WAS OBSERVED THIS MONTH, WHICH IS 2.52 INCHES BELOW
NORMAL. THIS IS THE 3RD DRIEST OCTOBER ON RECORD SINCE RECORDS BEGAN
IN 1897 AND DRIEST OCTOBER SINCE 1964. TO FURTHER PUT THIS INTO
PERSPECTIVE, HAVING A HALF INCH OR LESS OF PRECIPITATION IN A MONTH
IS INCREDIBLY RARE. THE LAST TIME THIS HAPPENED WAS IN MARCH OF 2001
WHEN 0.48" FELL.
UNSURPRISINGLY, DROUGHT CONDITIONS WORSENED THROUGH THE MONTH. ON
THE OCTOBER 1ST US DROUGHT MONITOR, ABOUT 8.5% OF THE NORTHERN
INDIANA FORECAST AREA WAS UNDER A SEVERE DROUGHT (D2) OR WORSE. BY
OCTOBER 29TH, THIS VALUE BALLOONED TO 77.9%. FALL HARVEST YIELDS
HAVE GENERALLY BEEN GOOD ACCORDING TO USDA CROP REPORTS, THOUGH
FIELD FIRES HAVE BEEN PROBLEMATIC AND A LACK OF RAIN HAS NEGATIVELY
IMPACTED THE GERMINATION OF WINTER WHEAT.
NO SNOW WAS RECORDED THIS MONTH, IN CONTRAST TO A TRACE THAT WAS
OBSERVED IN OCTOBER 2023 AND 0.7" IN OCTOBER 2022. OCTOBER USUALLY
AVERAGES 0.1 INCHES OF SNOW IN FORT WAYNE.
A TASTE OF FALL ARRIVED MID-MONTH, WHICH WAS ALSO WHEN THE FIRST
FROST WAS OBSERVED ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA. THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH
THE TYPICAL FIRST FROST DATE FOR THE AREA. HEAT SOON FOLLOWED WITH
HIGHS WELL INTO THE 70S AND EVEN 80 DEGREES (80 ON THE 21ST). THEN,
80S RETURNED AT THE END OF THE MONTH, INCLUDING A RECORD HIGH OF 80
ON THE 29TH (PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 78 IN 2016) AND A RECORD HIGH OF 81
ON THE 30TH (PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 79 IN 1950). A NEW RECORD WARM LOW
WAS ALSO SET ON THE 30TH; THE LOW TEMPERATURE OF 64 DEGREES BROKE
THE PREVIOUS RECORD WARM LOW OF 58, WHICH WAS SET IN 1974. FORT
WAYNE WAS JUST 1 DAY SHY OF THE LATEST 80-DEGREE DAY IN THE
CALENDAR YEAR ON RECORD, WHICH OCCURRED ON HALLOWEEN 1950.
THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 56.8 DEGREES WHICH IS 3.6
DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS TIES WITH 2017 AS THE 19TH WARMEST
OCTOBER ON RECORD. THIS WAS THE WARMEST OCTOBER SINCE 2021.
BROWN/JOHNSON
NOVEMBER 2024
MUCH OF NOVEMBER FEATURED WARMER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES, WITH A
COLD SNAP RIGHT AT THE END OF THE MONTH AFTER THANKSGIVING. QUITE A
DRAMATIC SHIFT IN TEMPERATURES WAS OBSERVED FROM THE BEGINNING OF
THE MONTH TO THE END; THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE IN NOVEMBER WAS THE 75
DEGREE HIGH TEMPERATURE ON THE 5TH AND THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE WAS
THE 15 DEGREE LOW THAT OCCURRED ON NOVEMBER 30TH. 22 DAYS IN
NOVEMBER HAD ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES, WHICH LED TO THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE IN NOVEMBER BEING WELL ABOVE NORMAL. THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE OF 45.8 DEGREES IS 4.7 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS IS THE
7TH WARMEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD AND THE WARMEST SINCE 2016.
THE PAST 6 MONTHS HAVE BEEN DRIER THAN NORMAL IN FORT WAYNE AND
NOVEMBER WAS NO EXCEPTION. FORT WAYNE RECORDED 2.19 INCHES OF
PRECIPITATION THIS MONTH WHICH IS 0.77 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS
RANKS AS THE 49TH DRIEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD. THE HIGHEST SINGLE DAY
PRECIPITATION TOTAL WAS 0.30 INCHES, WHICH OCCURRED TWICE ON
NOVEMBER 10TH AND NOVEMBER 14TH. THE LAST DAY WITH OVER A HALF INCH
OF PRECIPITATION WAS SEPTEMBER 22ND (0.55 INCHES) AND THE LAST DAY
WITH AN INCH OR MORE WAS MAY 7TH (1.38 INCHES).
FORT WAYNE DID MANAGE TO PICK UP 0.7 INCHES OF SNOW THIS MONTH. THIS
IS 1.2 INCHES BELOW NORMAL AND TIES AS THE 46TH LEAST SNOWY NOVEMBER
ON RECORD. ALL OF THE MONTH`S MEASURABLE SNOWFALL FELL ON NOVEMBER
21ST, ALTHOUGH SEVERAL OTHER DAYS DID HAVE A TRACE OF SNOW.
THERE WAS ONE NEW RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET THIS MONTH ON NOVEMBER
5TH. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 75 DEGREES BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF
73 DEGREES, SET IN 1978.
IN ADDITION, THERE WERE TWO NEW RECORD WARM LOW TEMPERATURES SET
THIS MONTH ON NOVEMBER 4TH AND 5TH. ON NOVEMBER 4TH, THE LOW
TEMPERATURE OF 62 DEGREES BROKE THE PREVIOUS DAILY RECORD WARM LOW
OF 58 DEGREES, SET IN 1994. ON NOVEMBER 5TH, THE LOW TEMPERATURE OF
64 DEGREES BROKE THE PREVIOUS DAILY RECORD WARM LOW OF 57 DEGREES,
SET IN 1994. IN ADDITION TO BREAKING THE DAILY RECORD WARM LOW, THIS
ALSO BROKE THE ALL-TIME NOVEMBER RECORD WARM LOW. BEFORE NOVEMBER
5TH, 2024, THERE HAD NEVER BEEN A LOW TEMPERATURE WARMER THAN 62
DEGREES IN NOVEMBER! THE OLD ALL-TIME RECORD WARM LOW OF 62 DEGREES
WAS PREVIOUSLY SET ON NOVEMBER 27, 1990 AND NOVEMBER 4, 2024.
JOHNSON
DECEMBER 2024
...COLDEST START TO DECEMBER IN 14 YEARS GIVES WAY TO MILD MONTH
OVERALL...
WINTER ARRIVED QUICKLY IN THE FORM OF COLDER-THAN-NORMAL
TEMPERATURES TO START THE MONTH. THROUGH DECEMBER 7, THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 8.6 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL (25.5 DEGREES
OBSERVED), GOOD FOR THE COLDEST START TO METEOROLOGICAL WINTER SINCE
24.1 DEGREES IN 2010. MILD LAKE MICHIGAN WATER TEMPERATURES NEAR 40F
WERE CONDUCIVE FOR LAKE EFFECT SNOW WHICH STRETCHED TO FORT WAYNE AT
TIMES. OTHERWISE, COLD FRONTS BROUGHT EPISODIC SNOW SHOWERS. BY
MONTH`S END, 2.3 INCHES OF SNOW WAS RECORDED WHICH IS 5.3 INCHES
BELOW NORMAL AND TIES AS THE 26TH LEAST ON RECORD (1954 AND 1905).
THE AFORMENTIONED COLD WAS NEARLY ERASED IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED
AS HIGH TEMPERATURES SOARED INTO THE MID-40S AND EVEN MID-50S. FIVE
DAYS THIS MONTH REACHED A HIGH OF 50 DEGREES OR WARMER WHICH IS
THREE LESS THAN DECEMBER 2023. ONE MORE BRIEF COLD SNAP OCCURRED
FROM THE 11TH THROUGH 13TH BEFORE A RETURN TO VERY MILD
TEMPERATURES. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 33.6 DEGREES
WHICH IS 2.7 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 25TH WARMEST ON
RECORD.
PRECIPITATION WAS FREQUENT THANKS TO A PROGRESSIVE JET STREAM. THE
US DROUGHT MONITOR WAS GENERALLY UNCHANGED IN OUR AREA THROUGH
DECEMBER WITH ABOUT 34 PERCENT OF THE AREA EXPERIENCING "SEVERE
DROUGHT" (LEVEL 2 OF 4), WHILE ALL OF THE AREA WAS DEEMED AT LEAST
UNDER A "MODERATE DROUGHT" (LEVEL 1 OF 4). THE MONTH RECORDED 3.82
INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WHICH IS 1.35 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL AND IS
19TH WETTEST ON RECORD. 1.77 INCHES OF THIS MONTH`S TOTAL FELL FROM
THE 29TH THROUGH 31ST AS A PAIR OF LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS BROUGHT
SOAKING RAIN (MIXED WITH A FEW SNOWFLAKES NEW YEAR`S EVE) TO THE
FORT. DATING BACK TO MAY 7TH, FORT WAYNE HAS NOT HAD A DAY WITH 1
INCH OR MORE OF PRECIPITATION.
BROWN
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