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The Fort Wayne, Indiana 2021 Climate Summary from the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n
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Fort Wayne, Indiana (January 3, 2022) – Both Fort Wayne and South Bend experienced a top-ten warmest year in 2021. Records began in the 1890s at both sites. Hey, Fort Wayne: remember all that rain in the summer and fall? Well, it propelled us to one of the top-10 wettest years on record. Hey, South Bend: Did you miss the snow in 2021? Sure, there were a couple instances of lake effect snow, but snow was well below normal with only 39 inches observed in 2021. <\/p>\n
See the full annual climate summary at the top of our website: weather.gov\/iwx<\/a>. <\/p>\n
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And the complete 2021 Annual Climate Summary from the National Weather Service:<\/p>\n
000\r\nCXUS53 KIWX 030146\r\nCLAFWA\r\n\r\nCLIMATE REPORT\r\nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA\r\n845 PM EST SUN JAN 02 2022\r\n\r\n...................................\r\n\r\n...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR OF 2021...\r\n\r\nCLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1991 TO 2020\r\nCLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1897 TO 2021\r\n\r\nWEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S\r\n VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE\r\n NORMAL\r\n..............................................................\r\nTEMPERATURE (F)\r\nRECORD\r\n HIGH 106 06\/28\/2012\r\n 06\/25\/1988\r\n 07\/14\/1936\r\n LOW -24 01\/12\/1918\r\nHIGHEST 92 08\/24 MM MM 95\r\n 06\/12\r\nLOWEST -6 02\/17 MM MM 0\r\nAVG. MAXIMUM 61.9 60.3 1.6 61.8\r\nAVG. MINIMUM 42.9 41.4 1.5 42.0\r\nMEAN 52.5 50.9 1.6\r\nDAYS MAX >= 90 7 15.7 -8.7 25\r\nDAYS MAX <= 32 29 39.7 -10.7 15\r\nDAYS MIN <= 32 119 123.6 -4.6 131\r\nDAYS MIN <= 0 3 6.2 -3.2 1\r\n\r\nPRECIPITATION (INCHES)\r\nRECORD\r\n MAXIMUM 54.58 1990\r\n MINIMUM 24.40 1962\r\nTOTALS 44.14 39.48 4.66 37.24\r\nDAILY AVG. 0.12 0.11 0.01 0.10\r\nDAYS >= .01 133 135.4 -2.4 133\r\nDAYS >= .10 75 77.3 -2.3 71\r\nDAYS >= .50 34 25.2 8.8 25\r\nDAYS >= 1.00 11 8.9 2.1 8\r\n\r\nSNOWFALL (INCHES)\r\nRECORDS\r\n TOTAL 68.6 2014\r\nTOTALS 35.2 33.6 1.6 18.8\r\nSINCE 7\/1 2.6 9.6 -7.0 MM\r\nSNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 0\r\nDAYS >= TRACE 57 34.0 23.0 51\r\nDAYS >= 1.0 8 10.7 -2.7 8\r\nGREATEST\r\n SNOW DEPTH 15 02\/16 3\r\n\r\nDEGREE DAYS\r\nHEATING TOTAL 5483 5968 -485 5606\r\n SINCE 7\/1 1848 2257 -409 MM\r\nCOOLING TOTAL 1062 849 213 938\r\n SINCE 1\/1 1062 849 213 MM\r\n..............................................................\r\n\r\nWIND (MPH)\r\nAVERAGE WIND SPEED 8.7\r\nHIGHEST WIND SPEED\/DIRECTION 46\/260 DATE 12\/11\r\nHIGHEST GUST SPEED\/DIRECTION 61\/250 DATE 12\/11\r\n\r\nSKY COVER\r\nPOSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM\r\nAVERAGE SKY COVER 0.65\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 67\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS PC 139\r\nNUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 159\r\n\r\nAVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 72\r\n\r\nWEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH\r\nTHUNDERSTORM 47 MIXED PRECIP 2\r\nHEAVY RAIN 29 RAIN 40\r\nLIGHT RAIN 143 FREEZING RAIN 1\r\nLT FREEZING RAIN 7 HAIL 0\r\nHEAVY SNOW 3 SNOW 10\r\nLIGHT SNOW 57 SLEET 4\r\nFOG 190 FOG W\/VIS <= 1\/4 MILE 17\r\nHAZE 44\r\n\r\n- INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.\r\nR INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.\r\nMM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.\r\nT INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.\r\n\r\n&&\r\n...TOP TEN WARMEST AND WETTEST...\r\n\r\nA MAJORITY OF MONTHS THIS YEAR FEATURED ABOVE-NORMAL TEMPERATURES.\r\nOCTOBER RANKED AS THE 7TH WARMEST ON RECORD AND DECEMBER RANKED AS\r\nTHE 5TH WARMEST ON RECORD. THESE NOTABLY WARM MONTHS PROPELLED US TO\r\nTHE 7TH WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD. RECORDS AT FORT WAYNE BEGAN IN 1897.\r\n\r\nTHE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS 52.5 DEGREES, WHICH IS 1.6\r\nDEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 50.9 DEGREES. THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE\r\nFOR THE YEAR WAS 92 DEGREES ON JUNE 12TH AND AUGUST 24TH. THE LOWEST\r\nTEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS -6 DEGREES ON FEBRUARY 17TH.\r\n\r\nTHERE WERE SEVEN DAYS WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 90 DEGREES OR\r\nWARMER, WHICH IS ABOUT NINE DAYS LESS THAN THE CLIMATE NORMAL OF\r\nABOUT 16 DAYS. THERE WERE 119 DAYS WITH A LOW TEMPERATURE AT OR\r\nBELOW FREEZING. THIS IS ABOUT 5 DAYS BELOW THE CLIMATE NORMAL OF 124\r\nDAYS. THERE WERE THREE DAYS THIS YEAR WITH A LOW TEMPERATURE BELOW\r\nZERO. THE CLIMATE NORMAL VALUE IS 6 DAYS PER YEAR.\r\n\r\nTOTAL SNOWFALL FOR THE YEAR WAS 35.2 INCHES, WHICH IS 1.6 INCHES\r\nABOVE THE NORMAL OF 33.6 INCHES. THIS IS THE 39TH SNOWIEST YEAR ON\r\nRECORD. THERE WERE 8 DAYS WITH AN INCH OR MORE OF SNOW WHICH IS\r\nABOUT 3 LESS THAN NORMAL.\r\n\r\nTHE TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE YEAR WAS 44.14 INCHES, THIS IS 4.66\r\nINCHES ABOVE NORMAL OF 39.48 INCHES. THIS RANKS AS THE 10TH WETTEST\r\nYEAR ON RECORD. THERE WERE 11 DAYS THIS YEAR WITH 1 INCH OR MORE OF\r\nPRECIPITATION, WHICH IS ABOUT 2 DAYS MORE THAN NORMAL.\r\n\r\nA MONTH-BY-MONTH SUMMARY FOLLOWS:\r\n\r\nJANUARY 2021\r\n...SNOWSTORM TO END THE MONTH...\r\n\r\nMUCH OF THE MONTH WAS MILD AND DRY. THERE WAS NOTABLE PRECIPITATION\r\nTO START OF THE MONTH, FOLLOWED BY A SNOWSTORM IN THE FINAL DAYS.\r\nUNTIL THAT SNOWSTORM, SNOW WAS ELUSIVE.\r\n\r\nIT WAS NOT UNTIL JANUARY 23RD THAT FORT WAYNE RECORDED A DAILY\r\nAVERAGE TEMPERATURE DEPARTURE BELOW NORMAL. OUR AVERAGE TEMPERATURE\r\nTHROUGH THE 22ND WAS 31.4 DEGREES, WHICH RANKS AS THE 21ST WARMEST\r\nON RECORD. I SHOULD NOTE THAT THIS SAME STRETCH OF DAYS IN 2020\r\nRECORDED AN AVERAGE OF 32.5 DEGREES. THE OVERALL WARMTH THIS MONTH\r\nIS A RESULT OF NOT ONLY MILD HIGH TEMPERATURES, BUT NOTABLE \"WARM\"\r\nLOW TEMPERATURES AS WELL. THE CLIMATE NORMAL LOW TEMPERATURE FOR\r\nJANUARY IS TYPICALLY 17.4 DEGREES. INSTEAD, FORT WAYNE OBSERVED 25.5\r\nDEGREES THIS MONTH.\r\n\r\nTHE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH WAS 30.0 DEGREES WHICH\r\nIS 5.1 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 30TH WARMEST ON\r\nRECORD.\r\n\r\nA MOSTLY RAIN EVENT BEGAN THE MONTH WITH 0.67\" OF PRECIPITATION.\r\nSNOWFALL WAS ONLY RECORDED IN TINY DOSES. THROUGH JANUARY 29TH, THE\r\nGREATEST SINGLE-DAY TOTAL WAS ONE-HALF INCH ON THE 3RD. FROM THE 1ST\r\nTHROUGH 29TH, ONLY 1.8\" OF SNOW WAS REPORTED, WHICH TIES 2006 AS THE\r\n18TH LEAST SNOWIEST DURING THAT TIME. HOWEVER, A POTENT STORM\r\nDROPPED 8.6 INCHES OF SNOW FROM THE 30TH THROUGH 31ST. THIS IS THE\r\nGREATEST 2-DAY TOTAL AT FORT WAYNE SINCE 9.6\" WAS OBSERVED FROM\r\nFEBRUARY 1-2, 2015. THE REPORTED 6.6 INCHES OF SNOW ON JANUARY 31ST\r\nIS ALSO THE GREATEST SINGLE-DAY SNOW TOTAL SINCE 9.0 INCHES WAS\r\nOBSERVED ON FEBRUARY 1, 2015.\r\n\r\nSNOWFALL FOR THIS MONTH TOTALED 10.4 INCHES WHICH IS 0.3 INCHES\r\nABOVE NORMAL. IN JANUARY 2020, ONLY 2.6 INCHES WAS OBSERVED.\r\nSNOWFALL FOR THE ENTIRE WINTER TOTALS 12.6 INCHES WHICH IS 6.0\r\nINCHES BELOW NORMAL.\r\n\r\nPRECIPITATION FOR THIS MONTH TOTALED 1.87 INCHES WHICH IS 0.39\r\nINCHES BELOW NORMAL. THE RANKS AS THE 55TH DRIEST JANUARY ON RECORD.\r\n\r\nTHERE WERE NO RECORDS SET THIS MONTH.\r\n\r\nFEBRUARY 2021\r\n...WINTER CHILL ARRIVES...\r\n\r\nFOLLOWING A MILD JANUARY AND THE SNOW STORM THAT ENDED THE MONTH,\r\nFEBRUARY BROUGHT TEMPERATURES WELL BELOW NORMAL AND SOME IMPRESSIVE\r\nSNOW.\r\n\r\nTEMPERATURES WERE BELOW NORMAL FROM THE 2ND THROUGH 21ST. THE\r\nGREATEST AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL WAS ON THE\r\n17TH, WHEN THE DAY WAS 23 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS WAS ALSO THE\r\nDATE OF THE MONTH`S LOWEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURE; -6 DEGREES. THE\r\nSTRETCH OF DAYS FROM THE 1ST THROUGH 21ST RANKED AS THE 8TH COLDEST\r\nON RECORD, WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 16.3 DEGREES. THE FINAL\r\nWEEK OF THE MONTH OFFERED RELIEF FROM THE COLD AS HIGH TEMPERATURES\r\nOF AT LEAST 40 DEGREES WERE OBSERVED FROM THE 21ST THROUGH 28TH. A\r\nREFRESHING HIGH OF 63 OCCURRED ON THE 28TH. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE\r\nFOR THE MONTH WAS 21.6 DEGREES WHICH IS 6.7 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.\r\nTHIS RANKS AS THE 20TH COLDEST FEBRUARY.\r\n\r\nTHE MONTH`S SNOWFALL PILED UP IN A PERIOD FROM THE 4TH TO 18TH. THE\r\nGREATEST SINGLE-DAY TOTAL FOR THE MONTH WAS 10.1 INCHES ON THE 15TH.\r\nTHIS CRUSHED THE PREVIOUS RECORD FOR THIS DATE; 4.0 INCHES IN 1908.\r\nTHIS WAS THE GREATEST SINGLE-DAY FEBRUARY SNOWFALL SINCE 12.4 INCHES\r\nIN 1912. FURTHERMORE, THIS IS THE GREATEST SINGLE-DAY SNOW TOTAL\r\nSINCE JANUARY 31ST, 1982 (10.8 INCHES)! AN ADDITIONAL 1.3 INCHES OF\r\nSNOW FELL FROM THIS SAME STORM SYSTEM ON THE FOLLOWING DAY,\r\nRESULTING IN A TWO-DAY TOTAL OF 11.4 INCHES. THIS IS THE GREATEST\r\nTWO-DAY TOTAL SINCE 14.0 INCHES ENDING ON DECEMBER 20TH, 1973. THE\r\nTOTAL SNOW FOR THE MONTH WAS 17.3 INCHES WHICH IS A WHOPPING 9.6\r\nINCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 8TH SNOWIEST ON RECORD. THIS\r\nIS THE SNOWIEST FEBRUARY SINCE 2015 WHEN 19.0 INCHES WERE OBSERVED.\r\n\r\nTHE GREATEST SNOW DEPTH (7AM) WAS 15 INCHES ON THE 16TH. THIS RANKS\r\nAS THE 3RD GREATEST MAXIMUM SNOW DEPTH ON RECORD (NOTE: WINTER 1903-\r\n1904 HAD A MAXIMUM DEPTH OF 16 INCHES, THROUGH THERE ARE 11 MISSING\r\nDAYS OF DATA). THIS IS THE GREATEST SNOW DEPTH SINCE FEBRUARY 9TH,\r\n1982, WHICH HAD A MAXIMUM OF 20 INCHES. I SHOULD NOTE THAT 2011 (FEB\r\n6TH) HAD A MAXIMUM SNOW DEPTH OF 13 INCHES.\r\n\r\nMARCH 2021\r\n...WARM WITH A DRY START, BUT A WET FINISH...\r\n\r\nMARCH WILL BE KNOWN AS A WARM MONTH. THIS IS MAINLY BECAUSE THE\r\nAVERAGE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 55.8 DEGREES AND\r\nRANKED AS THE 6TH WARMEST. FORT WAYNE HAD AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF\r\n43.7 DEGREES FOR MARCH, WHICH RANKED AS THE 14TH WARMEST MARCH.\r\n\r\nWITH HOW WARM MARCH WAS FOR FORT WAYNE, IT ONLY RECEIVED A TENTH OF\r\nSNOW ON THE 15TH AND A TRACE ON THE 18TH. THE 0.1 INCHES OF SNOW FOR\r\nTHE MONTH RANKED AS TIED FOR THE 11TH LEAST SNOWIEST MARCH.\r\n\r\nFORT WAYNE HAD A VERY DRY START TO MARCH WITH MARCH 1 TO MARCH 17\r\nRECEIVING ONLY 0.15 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION. THIS RANKED AS THE\r\nTHIRD DRIEST STRETCH BEHIND 1930 AND 1910. FURTHERMORE, 14 STRAIGHT\r\nDAYS OF PRECIPITATION TOTALING LESS THAN 0.02 INCHES OCCURRED FROM\r\nMARCH 1ST TO MARCH 14TH. THIS RANKED AS THE 9TH LONGEST STRETCH OF\r\n\"DRY\" WEATHER IN MARCH. AFTER THE DRY START, A PERIOD OF ACTIVE\r\nWEATHER MOVED IN FOR THE LATTER PART OF THE MONTH WITH MARCH 18TH TO\r\nMARCH 31ST RECEIVING 2.54 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION. THIS RANKED AS\r\nTHE 13TH WETTEST STRETCH FOR THAT PERIOD. OVERALL, FORT WAYNE\r\nRECEIVED 2.69 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH, RANKING AS THE\r\n57TH DRIEST MARCH.\r\n\r\nAPRIL 2021\r\n...DROUGHT CONDITIONS CONTINUE WITH ROLLER COASTER TEMPERATURES...\r\n\r\nFROM A TEMPERATURE POINT OF VIEW, APRIL FEATURED TWO LARGE EPISODES\r\nOF TEMPERATURE SWINGS. AFTER A CRISP START ON THE 1ST AND 2ND,\r\nTEMPERATURES WARMED DRAMATICALLY THEREAFTER. THE PERIOD FROM APRIL 1\r\nTO APRIL 13TH RANKS AS THE 7TH WARMEST ON RECORD, WITH AN AVERAGE\r\nTEMPERATURE OF 53.5 DEGREES. WITHIN THIS STRETCH, ON THE 6TH, FORT\r\nWAYNE PICKED UP ITS FIRST 80-DEGREE DAY OF THE YEAR. THIS IS ABOUT\r\n19 DAYS SOONER THAN AVERAGE AND IS THE EARLIEST 80-DEGREE DAY SINCE\r\nMARCH 15, 2012. THIS TIES 1921 AS THE 11TH EARLIEST 80-DEGREE DAY ON\r\nRECORD (14TH EARLIEST IF DUPLICATES ARE CONSIDER TO EACH HAVE THEIR\r\nOWN RANK).\r\n\r\nFOLLOWING THAT WARM SPELL, A STRETCH OF DAYS WITH BELOW-NORMAL\r\nTEMPERATURES WAS OBSERVED FROM THE 14TH TO 25TH (THOUGH, THE 19TH\r\nWAS 1 DEGREE ABOVE NORMAL). THIS PERIOD RANKED AS THE 6TH COLDEST ON\r\nRECORD. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 40 DEGREES ON THE 20TH NARROWLY\r\nMISSED THE RECORD OF 37 SET IN 1947. THE LOW OF 27 DEGREES ON THE\r\n22ND TIED THE RECORD SET IN 1986. JUST A FEW DAYS LATER, HIGH\r\nTEMPERATURES SOARED INTO THE 80S ONCE MORE WITH A HIGH OF 83 DEGREES\r\nON THE 23RD; 3 DEGREES SHY OF THE 1925 RECORD.\r\n\r\nTHE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 50.2 DEGREES WHICH IS NEAR\r\nTHE NORMAL OF 50.0 DEGREES.\r\n\r\nDROUGHT CONDITIONS WERE UNCHANGED NORTH AND EAST OF FORT WAYNE THIS\r\nMONTH, WITH SOME IMPROVEMENT NOTED TO THE WEST. PRECIPITATION WAS\r\nDISTRIBUTED SOMEWHAT EVENLY THROUGH THE MONTH AND TOTALED 2.95\r\nINCHES WHICH IS 0.57 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS TIES 1984 AS THE 55TH\r\nDRIEST ON RECORD. SINCE JANUARY 1ST, PRECIPITATION IS 1.45 INCHES\r\nBELOW NORMAL.\r\n\r\nLASTLY, IT WOULD NOT BE APRIL IN THE MIDWEST WITHOUT SOME SNOW! SNOW\r\nOCCURRED ON THREE DAYS THIS MONTH TOTALING 4.8 INCHES. MUCH OF THIS,\r\n4.2 INCHES, FELL ON THE 20TH WHICH SHATTERED THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF\r\n0.2 INCHES IN 1953. THE TWO-DAY SNOW TOTAL FROM THIS WEATHER SYSTEM\r\nWAS 4.8 INCHES AND TIES APRIL 4 AND 5, 1982 AS THE 10TH GREATEST TWO-\r\nDAY SNOWFALL IN APRIL. THE MONTHLY TOTAL OF 4.8 INCHES IS 3.8 INCHES\r\nABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 8TH SNOWIEST APRIL ON RECORD. IT IS\r\nTHE MOST SNOW IN APRIL SINCE 7.5 INCHES IN 1994.\r\n\r\nMAY 2021\r\n...FROSTY NIGHTS AND WELCOME RAIN...\r\n\r\nAFTER A MILD START TO THE MONTH WHERE HIGH TEMPERATURES REACHED THE\r\n70S AND 80S, TEMPERATURES QUICKLY TUMBLED THEREAFTER. THE AVERAGE\r\nTEMPERATURE DEPARTURE FROM THE 5TH THROUGH 15TH RANGED FROM 3 TO 18\r\nDEGREES BELOW NORMAL. DURING THAT STRETCH, A NUMBER OF FROST\r\nADVISORIES WERE ISSUED. PATIENCE PAID OFF AS SUMMER-LIKE\r\nTEMPERATURES RETURNED FOR THE 16TH TO 26TH WITH AN AVERAGE\r\nTEMPERATURE DEPARTURE AS GREAT AS 14 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL (24TH). IN\r\nTHE END THE, MONTH`S AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 59.1 DEGREES. THIS IS\r\n2.2 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 50TH COLDEST MAY ON RECORD.\r\n\r\nTHIS MONTH, RAIN ONCE AGAIN FAVORED THE GREATER FORT WAYNE AREA\r\nINSTEAD OF THE THOSE TOWARD THE MICHIGAN STATELINE. FORT WAYNE\r\nRECEIVED 1.70 INCHES MORE PRECIPITATION THAN SOUTH BEND. THIS MONTH,\r\nRAIN ESSENTIALLY FELL IN TWO SPURTS: 1.85 INCHES ON THE 9TH (NEW\r\nDAILY RECORD, BREAKING THE PREVIOUS OF 1.51 INCHES IN 2003), AND\r\n2.04 INCHES FROM THE 26TH THROUGH 28TH. NO MEASURABLE RAINFALL\r\nOCCURRED FROM THE 10TH THROUGH 25TH WHICH WORSENED DROUGHT\r\nCONDITIONS TEMPORARILY. THE MONTHLY TOTAL RAINFALL OF 4.67 INCHES IS\r\n0.09 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 32 WETTEST MAY ON\r\nRECORD.\r\n\r\n...JUNE 2021...\r\n\r\nON JUNE 1, THE TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE YEAR WAS 2.14 INCHES\r\nBELOW NORMAL. BY THE END OF THIS MONTH, THE YEAR`S PRECIPITATION\r\nTOTAL WAS ONLY 0.55 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS IS THE RESULT OF AN\r\nACTIVE MONTH, ESPECIALLY TOWARD THE END OF THE MONTH WHERE SOAKING\r\nTHUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.\r\n\r\nTHE RAIN TOTAL FOR THE MONTH WAS 5.91 INCHES WHICH IS 1.43 INCHES\r\nABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS TIED FOR THE 15TH WETTEST JUNE ON\r\nRECORD. THIS IS THE WETTEST JUNE SINCE 2018 WHEN 6.02 INCHES FELL.\r\n\r\nTEMPERATURES WERE GENERALLY ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE MONTH WITH THE\r\nEXCEPTION OF A COOL SPELL FROM THE 21ST TO 24TH. THE MORNING LOW OF\r\n49 ON THE 22ND WAS 13 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL AND NINE DEGREES AWAY\r\nFROM THE RECORD LOW. ON THE OTHER HAND, FORT WAYNE OBSERVED ITS\r\nFIRST 90-DEGREE DAY OF THE YEAR (92 ON THE 12TH). THIS IS ABOUT TWO\r\nDAYS EARLIER THAN AVERAGE. BY THE END OF JUNE LAST YEAR, FORT WAYNE\r\nHAD ALREADY OBSERVED NINE 90-DEGREE DAYS.\r\n\r\nTHE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 72.9 DEGREES WHICH IS 2.3\r\nDEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 17TH WARMEST JUNE ON RECORD.\r\n\r\nNO RECORDS WERE SET THIS MONTH.\r\n\r\nJULY 2021\r\n...SLIGHTLY COOL, BUT HUMID AND WET...\r\n\r\nTHIS MONTH`S AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FINISHED AT 73.3 DEGREES, WHICH IS\r\n0.5 DEGREE BELOW NORMAL AND RANKED AS THE 54TH COOLEST JULY ALL\r\nTIME. FORT WAYNE HAD 0 DAYS REACHING 90 DEGREES OR HIGHER, WHICH IS\r\nTHE LOWEST TOTAL SINCE 2014 WHEN IT HAD 0 90+ DEGREE DAYS AND IS 6.5\r\nDAYS BELOW THE NORMAL NUMBER OF 90+ DEGREE DAYS. IT ALSO HAD 16 DAYS\r\nONLY FALLING TO 65 DEGREES OR GREATER AS A LOW TEMPERATURE, WHICH IS\r\nABOVE THE NORMAL TOTAL OF 13.7 DAYS DURING THE MONTH OF JULY OWING\r\nTO THE HIGH RESIDENCE TIME OF HIGH HUMIDITY IN THE AREA. PUTTING\r\nTHAT ALL TOGETHER, THE COOLER HIGH TEMPERATURES, BUT HIGHER HUMIDITY\r\nALLOWS THE MONTH TO FINISH OFF SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL IN THE AVERAGE\r\nTEMPERATURE CATEGORY.\r\n\r\nTHIS MONTH`S PRECIPITATION TOTALED 5.59, WHICH IS 1.54 ABOVE NORMAL\r\nAND RANKED AS THE 16TH WETTEST JULY ALL TIME. FORT WAYNE`S TOTAL\r\nPRECIPITATION WAS POSITIVELY AFFECTED BY 2 DAILY TOTALS ABOVE 1 INCH\r\n(2.72 ON 7\/16, WHICH WAS A DAILY PRECIP RECORD, AND 1.23 ON 7\/12)\r\nAND ANOTHER TOTAL OF 0.74 INCH ON 7\/11 AS SUMMER TIME THUNDERSTORMS\r\nAFFECTED THE AREA. THE 2.72 INCHES THAT FELL ON 7\/16 WAS A DAILY\r\nPRECIPITATION RECORD AS WELL.\r\n\r\nAUGUST\r\n...HOT AND ON THE DRIER SIDE...\r\n\r\nTHIS MONTH`S AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FINISHED AT 74.2 DEGREES, WHICH IS\r\n2.6 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKED AS THE 15TH WARMEST AUGUST WHEN\r\nCOMPARED TO THE PERIOD OF RECORD. FORT WAYNE HAD 3 DAYS REACHING 90\r\nDEGREES OR HIGHER, WHICH IS AVERAGE FOR AUGUST. IT ALSO HAD 18 DAYS\r\nONLY FALLING TO 65 DEGREES OR GREATER AS A LOW TEMPERATURE, WHICH IS\r\n8.0 DAYS ABOVE THE NORMAL TOTAL OF 10.0 DAYS DURING THE MONTH OF\r\nAUGUST. THIS IS AS A RESULT OF THE HIGH RESIDENCE TIME OF HIGH\r\nHUMIDITY IN THE AREA. PUTTING THAT ALL TOGETHER, THE WARMER HIGH\r\nTEMPERATURES, AND HIGHER HUMIDITY ALLOWS THE MONTH TO FINISH OFF\r\nABOVE NORMAL IN THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE CATEGORY.\r\n\r\nFORT WAYNE ONLY HAD 2 SEVERE WEATHER-AIDED RAINFALL TOTALS EXCEEDING\r\n0.5 INCH ON THE 10TH (0.59) AND 11TH (1.12). THE TOTAL ON THE 11TH\r\nWAS ALMOST HALF THE TOTAL FOR THE MONTH WHICH TOTALED 2.46 INCHES OF\r\nPRECIPITATION. THAT IS 1.34 INCH BELOW THE NORMAL AUGUST TOTAL OF\r\n3.80 INCHES AND RANKED AS THE 47TH DRIEST AUGUST WHEN COMPARED TO THE\r\nPERIOD OF RECORD.\r\n\r\nSEPTEMBER\r\n...A STRETCH OF WARMTH AND SOAKING STORM SYSTEM...\r\n\r\nTHE MONTH BEGAN WITH TEMPERATURES GENERALLY NEAR NORMAL THROUGH THE\r\nFIRST 10 DAYS. THEN, THERE WAS A STRETCH OF ANOMALOUS WARMTH WHERE\r\nHIGH TEMPERATURES REACHED WELL INTO THE 80S, AND REACHED 90 OR\r\nGREATER TWO TIMES. THIS BRINGS OUR TOTAL NUMBER OF 90-DEGREE DAYS\r\nTHIS YEAR TO SEVEN. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY A COOL AND RAINY STRETCH.\r\nALL TOLD, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 67.5 DEGREES\r\nWHICH IS 2.7 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS TIES 2002 AS THE 24TH\r\nWARMEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD.\r\n\r\nAFTER A DRY START TO THE MONTH, AS LESS THAN A HALF-INCH WAS\r\nOBSERVED THROUGH THE 19TH, A SLOW-MOVING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM\r\nDRENCHED NORTHEAST INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO WITH RAIN TOTALS IN\r\nEXCESS OF 5 INCHES FOR SOME. AT THE AIRPORT, 2.90 INCHES WAS\r\nOBSERVED FROM THE 20TH THROUGH 23RD. THE 2.11 INCHES OF RAIN THAT\r\nFELL ON THE 22ND SET A NEW RECORD, BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF\r\n1.24 INCHES IN 2003. PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH TOTALED 3.78 INCHES\r\nWHICH IS 0.74 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 31ST WETTEST ON\r\nRECORD. THIS IS THE WETTEST SEPTEMBER SINCE 2016 WHEN 5.44 INCHES OF\r\nPRECIPITATION OCCURRED.\r\n\r\nOCTOBER\r\n...TOP TEN WARMEST AND WETTEST...\r\n\r\nTHIS WAS A REMARKABLE MONTH WITH RECORD-WARMTH THROUGH THE 21ST AND\r\nRELENTLESS RAIN. FORT WAYNE EXPERIENCED ITS WARMEST OCTOBER ON\r\nRECORD THROUGH OCTOBER 20TH WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 64.3\r\n(AHEAD OF 2007, 63.9 DEGREES. BY THE 21ST, WE WERE TIED WITH 2007\r\nWITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 63.9 DEGREES. THEN ON THE 22ND,\r\nOCTOBER 2007 SURPASSED THIS YEAR`S WARMTH WITH AN AVERAGE\r\nTEMPERATURE OF 63.8 (VS 63.2 OCTOBER 2021). WITHIN THIS STRETCH OF\r\nWARMTH, TWO RECORDS WERE TIED OR BROKEN:\r\n\r\nON 10\/10: THE RECORD WARMEST LOW WAS TIED (66 IN 1904) ON THE 10\/11:\r\nA NEW RECORD WARMEST LOW OF 64 (PREVIOUS 62 IN 1954)\r\n\r\nA SEASONABLE CHILL FINALLY ARRIVED TO THE AREA ON THE 22ND WHEN THE\r\nAVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE WAS THREE DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THE FINAL\r\nTEN DAYS OF THE MONTH ALSO FEATURED THE FIRST 32-DEGREE FROST WITH A\r\nMORNING LOW OF 32 ON THE 27TH. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH\r\nWAS 59.3 DEGREES WHICH IS 6.1 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS\r\nTHE 7TH WARMEST OCTOBER ON RECORD.\r\n\r\nA PROGRESSIVE WEATHER PATTERN BROUGHT SEVERAL ROUNDS OF RAIN TO THE\r\nAREA TO START THE MONTH, INCLUDING A TWO-DAY TOTAL OF 2.54 INCHES\r\nENDING ON THE 15TH. THERE WAS A BRIEF DRY PERIOD FROM THE 17TH TO\r\n20TH BEFORE ANOTHER ROUND OF SOAKING RAIN ARRIVED; 2.00 INCHES TOTAL\r\nON THE 24TH AND 25TH. THESE RAIN EVENTS WERE UNWELCOME FOR FALL\r\nHARVEST. NINETEEN DAYS THIS MONTH FEATURED MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION;\r\nA RECORD FOR OCTOBER (18 DAYS IN 1911 IS #2).\r\n\r\nALL TOLD, PRECIPITATION TOTALED 7.31 INCHES AND RANKS AS THE 5TH\r\nWETTEST ON RECORD. THIS IS 4.36 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS IS THE\r\nWETTEST OCTOBER SINCE 7.40 INCHES IN 2001. ONE DAILY PRECIPITATION\r\nRECORD WAS SET THIS MONTH: 1.83 INCHES ON THE 14TH BROKE THE\r\nPREVIOUS RECORD OF 0.88 IN 2008.\r\n\r\nNO SNOW WAS REPORTED THIS MONTH WHICH IS BELOW THE NORMAL OF 0.1\r\nINCH.\r\n\r\nNOVEMBER\r\n...TEMPERATURE SWINGS AND MUCH BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION...\r\n\r\nTHIS MONTH FEATURED A NUMBER OF TEMPERATURE SWINGS, BUT ULTIMATELY\r\nTHE COOLER-THAN-NORMAL DAYS ENSURED AN AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE\r\nBELOW NORMAL BY 1.6 DEGREES. THIS RANKS AS TIED FOR THE 40TH COLDEST\r\nON RECORD. THERE WERE FOUR DAYS WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE IN THE 60S\r\nTHIS MONTH (NOVEMBER 2020 FEATURED 10 DAYS), AND TWO DAYS THAT HAD A\r\nHIGH TEMPERATURE OF 59.\r\n\r\nTHIS FIRST SNOW OF THIS UPCOMING WINTER SEASON WAS REPORTED ON THE\r\n12TH (TRACE) AND THE FIRST MEASURABLE SNOW OCCURRED ON THE 14TH WHEN\r\n1.0 INCHES OF SNOW WAS OBSERVED. THIS DATE IS NEAR-NORMAL FOR THE\r\nFIRST 1-INCH SNOWFALL. THE MONTH`S TOTAL SNOW WAS 1.6 INCHES WHICH\r\nIS 0.3 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 62ND LEAST SNOWIEST ON\r\nRECORD.\r\n\r\nPRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH TOTALED ONLY 1.07 INCHES WHICH IS 1.89\r\nINCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 12TH DRIEST ON RECORD. THIS\r\nIS THE DRIEST NOVEMBER SINCE 2012, WHEN ONLY 0.60 INCHES WAS\r\nOBSERVED.\r\n\r\nNO RECORDS WERE SET THIS MONTH.\r\n\r\nDECEMBER - FORT WAYNE\r\n...TOP TEN WARMEST AND LEAST SNOWIEST...\r\n\r\nSNOW LOVERS WERE DISAPPOINTED THIS MONTH WHILE THOSE WHO DETEST\r\nWINTER CELEBRATED THE MILD AIR AND LACK OF SNOW. COLD AIR WAS LOCKED\r\nOUT OF OUR AREA, INSTEAD RESIDING OFF TO OUR NORTHWEST.\r\n\r\nONLY THREE DAYS THIS MONTH REPORTED BELOW NORMAL AVERAGE DAILY\r\nTEMPERATURE DEPARTURES. DECEMBER 7TH AND 8TH (-12.7 AND -5.4\r\nRESPECTIVELY) AND DECEMBER 22ND (-2.2 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.) THESE\r\nTHREE COLD DAYS WERE OFFSET BY SEVERAL DAYS WITH WELL ABOVE NORMAL\r\nTEMPERATURES.\r\n\r\nTHE HIGHEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OCCURRED ON DECEMBER 11TH AT 62\r\nDEGREES. THIS WAS 1 DEGREE SHORT OF TYING THE RECORD OF 63 DEGREES\r\nSET IN 1949. ALTHOUGH THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE OCCURRED ON THE 11TH,\r\nTHE WARMEST DAY OF THE MONTH OCCURRED ON THE 15TH. THE AVERAGE\r\nTEMPERATURE WAS 21.6 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL FOR THE DAY. WHILE THE\r\nRECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS MISSED ON THE 15TH (THE RECORD IS 64\r\nDEGREES SET IN 1933), THE LOW TEMPERATURE OF 45 BROKE THE PREVIOUS\r\n(WARM) LOW TEMPERATURE RECORD OF 42 IN 1971.\r\n\r\nWITH THE ABOVE IN MIND, IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT THIS RANKS AS THE 5TH\r\nWARMEST DECEMBER ON RECORD. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES THIS MONTH WAS\r\n38.1 DEGREES WHICH IS 7.2 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS IS THE WARMEST\r\nDECEMBER SINCE 2015 (41.5 DEGREES; WARMEST ON RECORD).\r\n\r\nPRECIPITATION THIS MONTH, MAINLY RAIN, WAS COMMON WITH 4.27 INCHES\r\nOF PRECIPITATION REPORTED. THIS IS 1.80 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL AND\r\nRANKS AS THE 14TH WETTEST DECEMBER ON RECORD. RECORD RAINFALL FELL\r\nON DECEMBER 6TH WITH AN OBSERVED 0.86 INCHES. THIS BROKE THE\r\nPREVIOUS RECORD OF 0.69 INCHES SET IN 1924.\r\n\r\nTHE LACK OF SNOWFALL THIS MONTH WAS NOTABLE UNTIL THE VERY END WHEN\r\n0.9 INCHES WAS OBSERVED ON 12\/28. UNTIL THEN, THE ONLY MEASURABLE\r\nSNOWFALL OCCURRED ON 12\/8 WITH A TENTH OF AN INCH REPORTED. SNOW\r\nTHIS MONTH TOTALED 1.0 INCH WHICH IS 6.6 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS\r\nRANKS AS THE 10TH LEAST AMOUNT OF SNOW ON RECORD FOR FORT WAYNE. THE\r\nLEAST SNOWIEST DECEMBER ON RECORD WAS IN 1931 WHEN ONLY A TRACE OF\r\nSNOW WAS REPORTED FOR THE MONTH. THE SNOWIEST DECEMBER OCCURRED IN\r\n1914 WHEN 23.0 INCHES OF SNOW WAS RECORDED.\r\n\r\nDECEMBER 2021 WAS NOTABLE FROM A NATIONAL WEATHER PERSPECTIVE AS\r\nTHERE WERE TWO DEVASTATING SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAKS. THE FIRST\r\nOCCURRED ON THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 10TH RESULTING IN NEARLY 400\r\nSEVERE WEATHER REPORTS. THERE WERE 66 CONFIRMED TORNADOES INCLUDING\r\nTWO SUPERCELLS WHICH TRAVELED WELL OVER 100 MILES. THIS INCLUDES THE\r\nTORNADO THE IMPACTED MAYFIELD, KY. NEXT, AN ANOMALOUSLY DEEP LOW\r\nPRESSURE SYSTEM PRODUCED A SERIAL DERECHO AS IT MOVED FROM THE\r\nROCKIES TO THE PLAINS AND INTO THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY\r\nBEGINNING ON DECEMBER 15TH. THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE\r\nDERECHO PRODUCED HUNDREDS OF WIND DAMAGE REPORTS AND OVER 90\r\nCONFIRMED TORNADOES. DUE TO THE DEEP NATURE OF THE LOW, THERE WERE\r\nWIDESPREAD SYNOPTIC WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 70 MPH, WITH SEVERAL SITES\r\nRECORDING WIND GUSTS AS GREAT AS 90 TO 100 MPH. (SOURCE: CENTRAL\r\nREGION HEADQUARTERS)\r\n\r\nBROWN\/LEWIS\/ROLLER\r\n\r\n$$\r\n<\/pre>\nThe latest National Weather Service weather story<\/a> | Official National Weather Service Northern Indiana website<\/a><\/p>\n
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