Climatological Report (Seasonal)
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
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CXUS53 KIWX 011515
CLSFWA
CLIMATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1015 AM EST SUN DEC 01 2024
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...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE SEASON, FROM
9/1/2024 TO 11/30/2024...
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 100 09/02/1953
09/01/1953
LOW -1 11/30/1958
11/25/1950
11/24/1950
HIGHEST 92 09/21 MM MM 92
LOWEST 15 11/30 MM MM 16
AVG. MAXIMUM 68.7 63.1 5.6 64.7
AVG. MINIMUM 45.4 43.0 2.4 43.3
MEAN 57.1 53.0 4.1
DAYS MAX >= 90 2 1.5 0.5 1
DAYS MAX <= 32 2 1.6 0.4 2
DAYS MIN <= 32 13 19.1 -6.1 20
DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
PRECIPITATION (INCHES)
RECORD
MAXIMUM 16.47 1992
MINIMUM 2.89 1964
TOTALS 4.04 8.95 -4.91 5.71
DAILY AVG. 0.04 0.10 -0.06 0.06
DAYS >= .01 26 29.7 -3.7 27
DAYS >= .10 14 17.8 -3.8 13
DAYS >= .50 1 5.8 -4.8 4
DAYS >= 1.00 0 2.1 -2.1 0
GREATEST
24 HR. TOTAL 0.55 09/22 TO 09/22
SNOWFALL (INCHES)
RECORDS
TOTAL 14.1 1950
24 HR TOTAL 1.9 11/12/2022 TO 11/12/2022
TOTALS 0.7 2.0 -1.3 0.4
SINCE 7/1 0.7 2.0 -1.3 0.4
SNOWDEPTH AVG. T 0
DAYS >= TRACE 4 3.0 1.0 5
DAYS >= 1.0 0 0.5 -0.5 0
GREATEST
SNOW DEPTH T 0
24 HR TOTAL 0.7 11/21 TO 11/21
DEGREE DAYS
HEATING TOTAL 854 1187 -333 1087
SINCE 7/1 862 1197 -335 1093
COOLING TOTAL 159 98 61 110
SINCE 1/1 1023 849 174 766
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WIND (MPH)
AVERAGE WIND SPEED 8.1
HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 33/240 DATE 09/27
HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 47/030 DATE 09/27
SKY COVER
POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM
AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.52
NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 33
NUMBER OF DAYS PC 33
NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 25
AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 68
WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH
THUNDERSTORM 4 MIXED PRECIP 0
HEAVY RAIN 4 RAIN 8
LIGHT RAIN 31 FREEZING RAIN 0
LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0
HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 0
LIGHT SNOW 4 SLEET 0
FOG 43 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 3
HAZE 2
- INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.
R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.
MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.
T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.
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OP 5 WARMEST AND TOP 5 DRIEST FALL ON RECORD - FORT WAYNE
AMID THE 13TH WARMEST SEPTEMBER, 20TH WARMEST OCTOBER, AND 7TH
WARMEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD, AUTUMN 2024 WILL GO IN THE RECORD BOOKS
AS THE 3RD WARMEST ON RECORD. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 57.1
DEGREES IS 4.1 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS IS THE WARMEST FALL SINCE
2016.
PRECIPITATION WAS A REMARKABLE 4.91 INCHES BELOW NORMAL, TOTALING
ONLY 4.04 INCHES FROM SEPTEMBER THROUGH NOVEMBER. DROUGHT CONDITIONS
STEADILY WORSENED SEPTEMBER AND INTO OCTOBER, WITH SOME IMPROVEMENT
AROUND FORT WAYNE IN NOVEMBER. THE CITY OF FORT WAYNE HAS BEEN IN
SEVERE DROUGHT (D2) SINCE OCTOBER 15TH. DROUGHT CONDITIONS PEAKED IN
LATE-OCTOBER WHEN NEARLY 78% OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA FORECAST AREA
WAS EXPERIENCING SEVERE DROUGHT (D2) OR WORSE. FIELD FIRES AND DUSTY
CONDITIONS WERE REPORTED DURING HARVEST BUT CROP CONDITIONS WERE
OVERALL REPORTED AS FAVORABLE. OVERALL, AUTUMN 2024 RANKS AS THE 4TH
DRIEST FALL ON RECORD AND IS THE DRIEST SINCE 1964! THE HIGHEST
SINGLE DAY PRECIPITATION TOTAL OF 0.55" FELL ON SEPETEMBER 22ND;
THIS WAS THE ONLY DAY WITH A PRECIPITATION TOTAL GREATER THAN A HALF
INCH.
0.7 INCHES OF SNOW WAS RECORDED WHICH IS 1.3 INCHES BELOW NORMAL.
AUTUMN 2024 TIES AS THE 42ND LEAST SNOWY FALL ON RECORD. NOVEMBER
21ST WAS THE ONLY DAY THIS FALL WITH MEASURABLE SNOWFALL.
A NUMBER OF TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE SET THIS FALL WHICH CAN BE
FOUND IN THE MONTH-BY-MONTH SUMMARY BELOW.
...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.
...OCTOBER...
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.
...NOVEMBER...
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 PRECIPITAATION 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.
BROWN/JOHNSON/FISHER