CXUS53 KIWX 012050 CLASBN CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 350 PM EST THU JAN 01 2026 ................................... ...THE SOUTH BEND CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR OF 2025... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1991 TO 2020 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1893 TO 2025 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR'S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE NORMAL .............................................................. TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 109 07/24/1934 LOW -22 01/20/1943 01/25/1897 HIGHEST 96 07/24 MM MM 97 LOWEST -5 01/21 MM MM -9 AVG. MAXIMUM 60.7 58.7 2.0 63.6 AVG. MINIMUM 41.0 39.9 1.1 44.1 MEAN 50.8 49.3 1.5 DAYS MAX >= 90 22 13.5 8.5 19 DAYS MAX <= 32 49 44.7 4.3 23 DAYS MIN <= 32 130 126.4 3.6 93 DAYS MIN <= 0 4 5.8 -1.8 6 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 55.61 1990 MINIMUM 25.15 1963 TOTALS 34.71 39.23 -4.52 40.18 DAILY AVG. 0.10 0.11 -0.01 0.11 DAYS >= .01 134 147.5 -13.5 144 DAYS >= .10 69 80.0 -11.0 85 DAYS >= .50 25 24.6 0.4 25 DAYS >= 1.00 8 7.5 0.5 11 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 141.7 1978 TOTALS 64.7 64.5 0.2 36.3 SINCE 7/1 37.1 19.0 18.1 10.9 SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 0 DAYS >= TRACE 43 42.2 0.8 45 DAYS >= 1.0 12 20.3 -8.3 9 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 8 11/10 10 DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 6025 6400 -375 4929 SINCE 7/1 2290 2404 -114 1867 COOLING TOTAL 986 722 264 958 SINCE 1/1 986 723 263 820 .............................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 8.8 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 45/200 DATE 03/30 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 61/180 DATE 03/30 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.43 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 179 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 95 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 89 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 69 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 39 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 37 RAIN 48 LIGHT RAIN 114 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 8 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 12 SNOW 29 LIGHT SNOW 60 SLEET 0 FOG 193 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 24 HAZE 106 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && ...A WARM AND DRY YEAR... THERE WAS QUITE A TIGHT GRADIENT FOR PRECIPITATION THIS YEAR BETWEEN SOUTH BEND AND FORT WAYNE. WITHIN A SPAN OF 90 MILES, FORT WAYNE HAD THEIR DRIEST YEAR ON RECORD (24.31" OF PRECIP) WHILE SOUTH BEND FINISHED THE YEAR FAIRLY CLOSE TO NORMAL. SOUTH BEND HAD OVER 10" MORE OF PRECIPITATION THIS YEAR THAN FORT WAYNE DID, LIKELY DUE TO A FAVORABLE TRACK AND BETTER PROXIMITY TO INCOMING SYSTEMS FROM THE WEST. THERE WERE 7 DAYS IN 2025 WITH A DAILY PRECIPITATION TOTAL OF OVER AN INCH (MARCH 4, APRIL 2, JUNE 4, JUNE 27, AUGUST 18 AND 19, AND DECEMBER 28). THE YEAR TURNED DRIER IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER AND THERE WERE NUMEROUS DRY STRETCHES THIS FALL WHERE SOUTH BEND WENT 1- 2 WEEKS WITHOUT ANY RAIN. A DRY END TO SUMMER AND A TOP 5 DRIEST FALL HELPED RAPIDLY EXACERBATE DROUGHT CONDITIONS IN SAINT JOSEPH COUNTY, IN. SOUTH BEND SPENT SEVERAL WEEKS THIS FALL IN MODERATE DROUGHT (D1) BEFORE DROUGHT IMPROVED IN NOVEMBER. DECEMBER 28TH WAS THE WETTEST DAY OF THE YEAR WITH 1.90" OF PRECIPITATION. WHAT IS ALSO REMARKABLE ABOUT THIS DATE IS THAT IT WAS THE HIGHEST SINGLE DAY PRECIPITATION TOTAL SINCE 4.30" OF RAIN FELL ON JUNE 30, 2021!! IN TOTAL, THERE WERE 34.71" OF PRECIPITATION IN SOUTH BEND, WHICH RANKS AS THE 42ND DRIEST ON RECORD. 2025 WAS 4.52" BELOW NORMAL AND WAS THE DRIEST YEAR SINCE 2012. ALTHOUGH PRECIPITATION WAS BELOW NORMAL, SURPRISINGLY, SNOWFALL WAS NOT! A MAJOR WINTER STORM AFTER THANKSGIVING FOLLOWED BY SEVERAL CLIPPERS AND LAKE EFFECT SNOW EVENTS IN DECEMBER HELPED BOOST THE ANNUAL SNOWFALL TO NEAR NORMAL. THE HIGHEST SINGLE DAY SNOW TOTAL WAS WHEN 9.0" FELL ON NOVEMBER 29TH. OVERALL, 2025 HAD 64.7" OF SNOW, WHICH IS 0.2" ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 46TH SNOWIEST YEAR ON RECORD AND THE SNOWIEST YEAR SINCE 91.8" FELL IN 2022. AFTER SETTING THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD IN 2024, TEMPERATURES WERE MORE SUBDUED BUT STILL WARMER THAN NORMAL IN 2025. WHILE FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW, JUNE FEATURED AN EARLY SEASON, MULTI-DAY HEATWAVE. HEAT ALSO LINGERED LONGER INTO THE FALL AS AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER BOTH HAD SEVERAL STRETCHES OF TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S AND 90S. THERE WERE 22 DAYS THIS SUMMER WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE AT OR ABOVE 90 DEGREES. THE WARMEST DAY THIS YEAR WAS JULY 24TH WHEN A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 96 WAS REACHED. THE HEAT WASN'T TERRIBLY ABOVE NORMAL THIS YEAR BUT THE HUMIDITY WAS RATHER EXTREME. SOUTH BEND SPENT 532 NON-CONSECUTIVE HOURS (EQUIVALENT TO 22.2 DAYS) WITH A DEWPOINT AT OR ABOVE 70 DEGREES THIS YEAR! THIS IS THE MOST HOURS IN A YEAR SINCE 1995 AND THE 4TH MOST HOURS SINCE HOURLY DEWPOINT RECORDS BEGAN IN 1948! CONVERSELY, THERE WERE ALSO A FEW COLD SNAPS THIS YEAR, PARTICULARLY AT THE END OF JANUARY AND BEGINNING OF DECEMBER. THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE THIS YEAR WAS WHEN A LOW OF -5 DEGREES OCCURRED ON JANUARY 21ST. THE AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE THIS YEAR WAS 60.7 DEGREES AND THE AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE WAS 41.0 DEGREES. OVERALL, 2025 HAD AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 50.8 DEGREES, WHICH IS 1.5 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 26TH WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD. 2025 NOTABLE WEATHER EVENTS - TOP 15 WARMEST AND WETTEST MARCH ON RECORD - EARLY SPRING SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS ON MARCH 30 AND APRIL 2 - 4TH LEAST SNOWY SPRING - HIGH WINDS BROUGHT BLOWING DUST TO SOUTH BEND ON MAY 16TH - EARLY SUMMER HEATWAVE IN MID-JUNE RESULTED IN SEVERAL DAYS OF HIGH HEAT AND HUMIDITY - 2ND MOST HUMID JULY ON RECORD - NOTABLE LACK OF SEVERE WEATHER DURING THE PEAK SEASON (SPRING AND SUMMER) - 3RD SNOWIEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD - POST-THANKSGIVING WINTER STORM BROUGHT A RECORD DAILY SNOWFALL TO SOUTH BEND - LATE DECEMBER SEVERE RISK ON DECEMBER 28TH FOLLOWED BY A 49 DEGREE DROP IN TEMPERATURES IN 18 HOURS - HIGHEST SINGLE DAY PRECIP TOTAL IN 4.5 YEARS OCCURRED ON DECEMBER 28TH A MONTH BY MONTH SUMMARY IS BELOW: ...JANUARY... A SERIES OF ARCTIC COLD FRONTS PROMOTED WELL BELOW-NORMAL TEMPERATURES AT TIMES THIS MONTH. THERE WERE THREE DISTINCT PERIODS OF BELOW-NORMAL TEMPERATURES, WITH THE COLDEST OCCURRING FROM THE 19TH THROUGH 24TH WHEN DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURES WERE AS MUCH AS 22 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THROUGH JANUARY 15TH, THE AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE OF 22.5 DEGREES RIVALS THAT OF 2022 (22.6 DEGREES) BUT WAS OTHERWISE THE COLDEST START TO JANUARY SINCE 17.1 DEGREES IN 2018. THE MORNING LOW OF -5 ON THE MORNING OF THE 21ST WAS THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH. THERE WERE THREE DAYS THIS MONTH WITH A TEMPERATURE BELOW ZERO, COMPARED TO FIVE DAYS IN JANUARY 2024. IN CONTRAST, A RIDGE DEVELOPED OVER THE EASTERN US IN THE FINAL DAYS OF JANUARY RESULTING IN A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 45 ON THE 28TH. THIS IS THE WARMEST HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR JANUARY SINCE 60 DEGREES IN JANUARY 2023. ALL TOLD, THE MONTH'S AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 22.8 DEGREES AND RANKS AS THE 44TH COLDEST ON RECORD. LAKE EFFECT SNOW WAS COMMON IN THE WAKE OF THESE ARCTIC COLD FRONTS. THE GREATEST SINGLE-DAY TOTAL WAS 3.5 INCHES ON THE 23RD. THE MONTH'S TOTAL OF 14.0 INCHES IS 7.6 INCHES BELOW NORMAL AND RANKS WITHIN THE MIDDLE-THIRD OF THE 128-YEAR RECORD. A SLOW-MOVING AREA OF LOW PRESSURE BROUGHT SOAKING RAIN TO PARTS OF ILLINOIS AND FAR NORTHERN INDIANA TO END THE MONTH. PRECIPITATION (RAIN AND MELTED SNOW) TOTALED 1.58 INCHES FOR THE MONTH. THIS WAS 1.08 INCHES BELOW NORMAL AND TIES AS THE 38TH LEAST AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATION ON RECORD (1989). NO RECORDS WERE SET THIS MONTH. ...FEBRUARY... THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY FEATURED VERY COLD AIR MID-MONTH THAT WAS BOOKENDED BY RELATIVELY WARM AIR AT THE START AND END OF THE MONTH. THE WARMEST DAY OF THIS MONTH WAS FEBRUARY 28TH WHEN A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 59 DEGREES WAS REACHED. FEBRUARY 3RD HAD AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE DEPARTURE OF NEARLY 20 DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE. THE COLDEST DAY OF THIS MONTH WAS FEBRUARY 18TH WHEN A LOW TEMPERATURE OF 0 DEGREES WAS REACHED. THIS DAY HAD AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE DEPARTURE OF 15.2 DEGREES BELOW AVERAGE. THE STRETCH OF DAYS FROM FEBRUARY 4TH TO FEBRUARY 22ND, WHICH HAD HIGH TEMPERATURES BELOW 40 DEGREES, WAS THE SECOND LONGEST SUCH STRETCH ON RECORD IN FEBRUARY. THIS PROLONGED STRETCH OF COLD AIR ALLOWED WINTER STORMS TO BRING DOSES OF WINTRY MIX TO THE AREA. THERE WAS A RUN OF 9 CONSECUTIVE DAYS WITH MEASUREABLE SNOWFALL FROM FEBRUARY 12TH TO FEBRUARY 20TH. THIS HAS ONLY HAPPENED 28 TIMES IN SOUTH BEND'S PERIOD OF RECORD SINCE 1893. FREEZING RAIN AND ICING CONCERNS WERE PLENTIFUL DURING THIS TIME AS WELL. OVERALL, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 27.1 DEGREES, WHICH EXACTLY MATCHES THE USUAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR FEBRUARY! ONE NEW HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORD WAS SET THIS MONTH. THE HIGH ON FEBRUARY 3RD OF 55 DEGREES TIED THE PREVIOUS RECORD SET IN 2020. DESPITE BOUTS OF WINTRY WEATHER THIS MONTH, FEBRUARY'S TOTAL SNOWFALL FINISHED BELOW NORMAL FOR THE MONTH. SOUTH BEND RECORDED 12.8 INCHES OF SNOW, WHICH IS 3.3 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. FOR SNOWFALL, FEBRUARY 2025 RANKS AS THE 54TH SNOWIEST ON RECORD. TOTAL PRECIPITATION FINISHED BELOW NORMAL AS WELL WITH ONLY 1.06 INCHES MEASURED, WHICH IS 1.25 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. FOR TOTAL PRECIPITATION, SOUTH BEND HAD THE 25TH DRIEST FEBRUARY ON RECORD. ...MARCH... MARCH 2025 WAS VERY MILD AND WET, WITH A NOTABLE AMOUNT OF RAIN BUT A LACK OF SNOW. THE MONTH WAS NOTICEABLY WARMER THAN NORMAL, WITH SEVERAL DAYS WITH HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S TO MID 70S DURING THE MIDDLE AND END OF THE MONTH. MANY THESE WARMER DAYS ALSO BROUGHT ABOUT PERIODS OF ACTIVE WEATHER. THE MIDDLE TO END OF THE MONTH WAS ESPECIALLY ACTIVE, WITH SEVERAL AREAS OF LOW PRESSURE MOVING THROUGH THE MIDWEST AND GREAT LAKES REGIONS. THESE AREAS OF LOW PRESSURE BROUGHT PERIODS OF STORMS TO THE AREA, WITH SEVERE WEATHER OCCURRING ON MARCH 19TH AND MARCH 30TH. STRAIGHTLINE WIND DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED WITH BOTH SEVERE WEATHER EVENT AND A FEW ISOLATED TORNADOES OCCURRED TOO. MILD TEMPERATURES LED TO MARCH 2025 RANKING AS THE 14TH WARMEST ON RECORD (RECORDS BEGAN IN 1893). THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 43.2 DEGREES, WHICH IS 6.5 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURES OF 36.7 DEGREES. THE WARMEST HIGH TEMPERATURE THIS MONTH WAS 78 DEGREES, WHICH OCCURRED ON MARCH 14TH AND MARCH 28TH. WITH ALL OF THE ACTIVE WEATHER TOWARDS THE LATTER HALF OF THE MONTH, PRECIPITATION WAS NOT HARD TO COME BY IN SOUTH BEND. AN ASTOUNDING 5.16" OF PRECIPITATION FELL THIS MONTH, WHICH IS 2.81" ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 7TH WETTEST MARCH ON RECORD! THE HIGHEST DAILY PRECIPITATION TOTAL OCCURRED ON MARCH 4TH WHEN 1.25" FELL. THIS SET A NEW DAILY RECORD RAINFALL FOR MARCH 4TH, AS THE 1.25" MEASURED BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 1.18" SET IN 1976. THERE WERE ALSO SEVERAL DAYS THIS MONTH WITH RAIN TOTALS AT OR OVER A HALF INCH THAT HELPED CONTRIBUTE TO THE OVERALL TOTAL. SOUTH BEND HAS ONLY HAD A MONTHLY PRECIPITATION TOTAL OF 5" OR MORE IN MARCH 8 TIMES IN THE CITY'S 132-YEAR HISTORY OF RECORDS. WITH SUCH MILD TEMPERATURES THIS MONTH, IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT SNOWFALL WAS SIGNIFICANTLY LACKING. IN FACT, ONLY ONE DAY HAS MEASURABLE SNOW IN THE ENTIRE MONTH. 0.4" FELL ON MARCH 4TH, WHICH IS THE ENTIRE MONTHLY TOTAL. THIS IS 6.4" BELOW NORMAL FOR THE MONTH AND TIES WITH 2024 FOR THE 11TH LEAST SNOWY MARCH ON RECORD. WHILE THERE CAN BE SNOWSTORMS IN MARCH, THEY HAVE BEEN HARD TO COME BY IN THE PAST DECADE. WITH THE LARGE TEMPERATURE SWINGS THAT TYPICALLY OCCUR IN THE TRANSITION FROM WINTER TO SPRING, IT IS ALSO NOT UNUSUAL TO HAVE A LACK OF SNOW IN MARCH. THE LAST TIME MARCH SNOWFALL WAS ABOVE NORMAL IN SOUTH BEND WAS IN 2023; IN THE PAST 25 YEARS, ONLY 9 YEARS HAVE HAS MARCH SNOWFALL ABOVE AVERAGE. ...APRIL... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON APRIL 2ND SPAWNED EIGHT TORNADOES ACROSS INDIANA, SOUTHERN MICHIGAN AND NORTHWEST OHIO. THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH WERE COMMON, DOWNING TREES AND POWERLINES AS WELL. THIS WAS ALSO WHEN 1.41 INCHES OF RAIN WAS RECORDED AT SOUTH BEND; A NEW RECORD SURPASSING THE PREVIOUS TOTAL OF 1.07 INCHES IN 1975. A PROGRESSIVE WEATHER PATTERN BROUGHT FREQUENT RAIN (AND EVEN SNOW) CHANCES EARLY ON IN APRIL ALONG WITH LARGE TEMPERATURE SWINGS AS IS TYPICAL FOR SPRING IN THE MIDWEST. TEMPERATURES TENDED TO BE BELOW NORMAL IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE MONTH FOLLOWED BY A NOTABLE WARM UP IN THE FINAL TEN DAYS. THREE DAYS THIS MONTH RECORDED A TEMPERATURE OF 80 OR WARMER; A COMMON OCCURRENCE OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 49.7 DEGREES WHICH IS 1.6 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 45TH WARMEST ON RECORD. PRECIPITATION TOTALED 2.56 INCHES WHICH IS 0.93 INCHES BELOW NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 47TH DRIEST ON RECORD. A TRACE OF SNOW WAS RECORDED WHICH IS 1 INCH BELOW NORMAL. ...MAY... THE MOST NOTABLE FEATURE THIS MONTH WAS THE WIDESPREAD STRONG 40 TO 70 MPH WINDS THAT MOVED THROUGH ON THE 16TH. A 55 MPH GUST WAS RECORDED AT THE SOUTH BEND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ADDITIONALLY, A PLUME OF DUST FROM CROP FIELDS WAS KICKED UP AND IT REDUCED VISIBILITY AT KSBN TO 1/4 MI AT 8:20 PM ET AS IT WENT NORTHWARD. REDUCED VISIBILITY WAS MOST COMMON IN AREAS WEST OF US-31. 70 DEGREE DEW POINTS ON THE 15TH WERE REPLACED BY A DRIER AREA OF 40 AND 50 DEGREE DEW POINTS ON THE 16TH AND THIS DRIER AIRMASS HELPED FACTOR INTO THE STRONG WIND GUSTS OBSERVED AS A PLAINS-LIKE INVERTED-V PROFILE SETUP OCCURRED. ONLY 0.04 INCH AND 0.02 INCH OF RAINFALL WERE OBSERVED ON THE 15TH AND 16TH RESPECTIVELY. AS FOR TEMPERATURE, THIS MONTH FINISHED JUST SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL. TEMPERATURES THROUGHOUT THE FIRST HALF OF THE MONTH AVERAGED NORMAL TO ABOVE NORMAL, WHEREAS THE LATTER HALF OF THE MONTH (THE 18TH THROUGH 31ST) WAS MUCH COOLER AND THIS REALLY HELPED TO AVERAGE THINGS OUT. OVERALL, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 58.1 DEGREES, WHICH IS 1.0 DEGREE BELOW NORMAL. THIS MONTH RANKED AS THE 52ND COOLEST MAY ON RECORD. RECORDS BEGAN IN 1893. PRECIPITATION-WISE, THIS MONTH FINISHED WELL BELOW NORMAL. ONLY 2 DAYS THIS MONTH HAD RAIN TOTALS AT OR GREATER THAN A HALF INCH; THE WETTEST DAY THIS MONTH WAS MAY 20TH WITH A TOTAL OF 0.53" OF PRECIPITATION. IN TOTAL, 2.08" OF PRECIPITATION FELL THIS MONTH, WHICH IS 2.12" BELOW NORMAL. THIS TIES FOR THE 28TH DRIEST MAY ON RECORD. ...JUNE... WHILE JUNE 1 WAS NOTABLY COOL (DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 11 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL), THE REMINDER OF THE MONTH WAS WARMER THAN NORMAL. ONLY SIX DAYS THIS MONTH SAW AN AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE BELOW NORMAL. DURING A LATE-MONTH HEAT WAVE, SOUTH BEND SET THREE RECORD WARM MINIMUM TEMPERATURES (JUNE 22, 23, 24) AND RECORDED A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 90 OR GREATER FOR SEVEN STRAIGHT DAYS. THE LONGEST STRETCH OF 90S ON RECORD IS 15 DAYS BACK IN 1901. JUNE OF LAST YEAR SAW AN SEVEN-DAY STRETCH END ON JUNE 22ND. EARLY JULY 2020 RECORDED EIGHT STRAIGHT 90-DEGREE DAYS. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF 90 DEGREE DAYS THIS MONTH IS NINE, MATCHING THAT OF JUNE 2024 AND IS ABOVE THE AVERAGE OF FOUR. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 72.7 DEGREES WHICH IS 3.9 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 10TH WARMEST JUNE OF RECORD. THIS WAS THE WARMEST JUNE SINCE 2021 (73.0 DEGREE AVERAGE) AND WAS ONLY SLIGHTLY WARMER THAN JUNE 2024 (72.4 DEGREE AVERAGE). WHILE 90-DEGREE DAYS CERTAINLY NUDGED THE MONTH'S AVERAGE TEMPERATURE ABOVE NORMAL, OVERNIGHT LOWS CARRIED NOTABLE WEIGHT. THE MONTH'S AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE OF 62.3 DEGREES TIES AS THE 8TH WARMEST ON RECORD. AMID THE HOT AND STEAMY CONDITIONS, PASSING THUNDERSTORMS BUBBLED UP AT TIMES AND RAINFALL RATES WERE VERY EFFICIENT. FOR EXAMPLE, 1.01" OF RAIN WAS RECORDED ON THE 27TH BUT 0.98" OF THIS TOTAL WAS RECORDED IN ONE HOUR DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. ON THE EVENING ON JUNE 17, SLOW-MOVING THUNDERSTORMS BECAME ANCHORED OVER NEARBY GRANGER, IN, RESULTING IN A COCORAHS REPORT OF 4.92 INCHES IN A MANNER OF ABOUT 3 TO 4 HOURS. THE SOUTH BEND AIRPORT RECORDED 0.00" THIS DAY. ALL TOLD, THE MONTH'S PRECIPITATION TOTALED 5.01 INCHES WHICH IS 0.97 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS RANKS AS THE 30TH WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD. THIS IS THE MOST JUNE RAINFALL SINCE 9.67 INCHES IN 2021. ...JULY... LAST YEAR, WE ENJOYED A COOLER THAN NORMAL JULY WITH NO 90 DEGREE DAYS. THIS YEAR, THE WEATHER WAS MUCH MORE TYPICAL FOR JULY WITH MULTIPLE UPPER LEVEL RIDGES SETTING UP OVER THE MIDWEST AND GREAT LAKES REGIONS. HOT AND HUMID WEATHER DOMINATED FOR A MAJORITY OF THE MONTH, ESPECIALLY AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE MONTH. THERE WERE EIGHT DAYS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S IN SOUTH BEND. THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURE THIS MONTH WAS 96 DEGREES ON JULY 24TH. AS FOR THE HUMIDITY, THERE WAS A NOTICEABLE STRETCH OF VERY HUMID CONDITIONS FROM JULY 24TH THROUGH 30TH. DURING THIS TIME THERE WERE 64 CONSECUTIVE HOURS OF DEWPOINTS AT OR GREATER THAN 70 DEGREES. THIS RUN IS THE 11TH LONGEST WITH DEWPOINTS AT OR ABOVE 70 DEGREES FOR JULY. DEWPOINT DATA AT KSBN DATES BACK TO 1948. ONE RECORD WARM LOW TEMPERATURE WAS TIED THIS MONTH. ON JULY 24TH, THE LOW OF 74 DEGREES TIED THE PREVIOUS DAILY RECORD SET IN 1987. OVERALL, JULY FINISHED WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 75.9 DEGREES, WHICH IS 3.5 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS MONTH TIES 1949 AS THE 19TH WARMEST JULY ON RECORD AND THE WARMEST SINCE 76.4 DEGREES IN 2020. AMID VERY HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS, THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY HIT OR MISS IN AND AROUND SOUTH BEND THIS MONTH. RAINFALL WAS VERY EFFICIENT FOR LOCATIONS THAT WERE ABLE TO GET STORMS. FOR INSTANCE, ON JULY 20TH, A NEARBY COCORAHS OBSERVER IN MILL CREEK, IN IN LA PORTE COUNTY REPORTED 2.94" OF RAINFALL WHILE THE SOUTH BEND AIRPORT ONLY GOT A TRACE. THERE WERE ONLY TWO DAYS THIS MONTH WHERE DAILY RAINFALL TOTALS WERE OVER A HALF INCH: JULY 26TH AND JULY 28TH. JULY 2025 HAD 3.04 INCHES OF RAIN THIS MONTH, WHICH IS 0.74 INCHES BELOW NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 65TH DRIEST MONTH ON RECORD. THIS WAS THE DRIEST JULY IN SOUTH BEND SINCE 2.39 INCHES IN 2021. ...AUGUST... THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST BEGAN WITH A FEW DAYS OF COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES, WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY A LONGER RELATIVELY WARM PERIOD THROUGH THE MIDDLE PART OF THE MONTH. THERE WERE 5 DAYS IN THE 90S THIS MONTH WITH THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH OCCURRING ON AUGUST 16TH WITH A HIGH OF 94 DEGREES. A UNSEASONABLY STRONG COLD FRONT SWEPT THROUGH ON AUGUST 24TH/25TH, REPLACING THE HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WITH MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES FOR THE LAST THIRD OF THE MONTH. THE LAST 9 DAYS OF AUGUST FEATURED HIGHS IN THE 70S AND LOWS IN THE 40S. DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE DEPARTURES WERE GENERALLY SMALL EACH DAY, BUT DEPARTURES ON THE 12TH AND 16TH WERE OVER 10 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND THE DEPARTURE ON THE 29TH WAS OVER 10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. AFTER THE 2ND MOST HUMID JULY ON RECORD, AUGUST WAS MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE IN TERMS OF HUMIDITY AND THE OVERNIGHT LOWS. THERE WERE 5 NIGHTS IN AUGUST WITH A LOW OF 50 OR LESS; THE COLDEST LOW TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH OF 45 DEGREES OCCURRED ON AUGUST 29TH. ALL IN ALL, AUGUST FINISHED WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 70.7 DEGREES IN SOUTH BEND, WHICH IS EXACTLY AT AVERAGE. MUCH LIKE JULY, PRECIPITATION WAS VERY HIT OR MISS. MUCH OF THE MONTH'S RAINFALL TOTAL CAME FROM POP-UP SHOWERS AND STORMS AS THE AFOREMENTIONED STRONG COLD FRONT TOWARDS THE END OF THE MONTH DID NOT PRODUCE ANY SUBSTANTIAL RAIN. THE BULK OF THE MONTH'S TOTAL RAINFALL FELL IN 48 HOURS BETWEEN AUGUST 18TH AND 19TH. 1.51" FELL ON AUGUST 18TH AND 1.31" FELL ON AUGUST 19TH; THE LATTER SET A NEW DAILY RAINFALL RECORD, BREAKING THE PREVIOUS DAILY RECORD OF 1.18" SET ON AUGUST 19, 1900. AUGUST TOTALED 3.62" OF RAIN DURING THE MONTH, WHICH IS 0.39" BELOW NORMAL. THIS WAS THE 57TH WETTEST AUGUST ON RECORD. RECORDS BEGAN IN 1893. ...SEPTEMBER... A COLD FRONT AND SUBSEQUENT HIGH PRESSURE IN LATE AUGUST BROUGHT A STRETCH OF BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES THAT SPILLED INTO SEPTEMBER. A REINFORCING DOSE OF COLD AIR ARRIVED FOR SEPTEMBER 4TH, WHEN THE OBSERVED DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 58 WAS 10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THE FIRST 10 DAYS OF THE MONTH WAS THE 4TH COLDEST ON RECORD WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 60.7 DEGREES. TWO RECORD LOWS WERE TIED: 40 DEGREES ON THE 8TH (1986, 1951, 1932) AND 43 DEGREES ON THE 9TH (1914, 1951). BY MID-MONTH, STRONG UPPER-LEVEL RIDGING WAS PROMINENT WHICH BROUGHT ANOMALOUS HEAT AND VERY LITTLE RAINFALL. IN FACT, THE FINAL 20 DAYS OF THE MONTH RANKED AS THE 6TH WARMEST ON RECORD WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 69.4 DEGREES. RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES WERE SET ON THE 8TH AND THE 9TH. THE UNSEASONABLE WARMTH PAIRED WITH DRY CONDITIONS RESULTED IN A RAPID DEGRADATION OF DROUGHT CONDITIONS THROUGH THE MONTH. ON SEPTEMBER 2, THE US DROUGHT MONITOR INDICATED ABOUT 17% OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA FORECAST AREA WAS EXPERIENCING MODERATE DROUGHT (D1) OR WORSE. BY SEPTEMBER 23, THAT NUMBER WAS 71%. CREEK, POND, AND STREAM LEVELS ARE EXPERIENCING VERY LOW FLOW. ADDITIONAL DROUGHT IMPACTS INCLUDE TREES DROPPING LEAVES EARLY AND SOYBEANS ARE STRESSED, FAILING TO FILL THEIR PODS IN SOME INSTANCES. MEASURABLE RAINFALL OCCURRED ON ONLY SIX DAYS THIS MONTH, TOTALING 1.34 INCHES. THIS RANKS AS THE 18TH DRIEST ON RECORD, AND THE DRIEST SINCE 0.48 INCHES IN 2009. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 66.5 DEGREES AND RANKS AS THE 37TH WARMEST ON RECORD. ...OCTOBER... WHILE IT IS NOT UNUSUAL FOR MONTHLY RAINFALL AMOUNTS TO VARY OVER A RELATIVELY SHORT DISTANCE (100 MILES OR LESS), SOUTH BEND COULD NOT HAVE HAD A MORE DIFFERENT OCTOBER THAN FORT WAYNE DID. WHILE FORT WAYNE ONLY PICKED UP 0.77" OF RAIN THROUGHOUT THE MONTH, SOUTH BEND GOT OVER 3 INCHES! DESPITE ONLY 8 DAYS OF MEASURABLE PRECIPTATION THIS MONTH, SOUTH BEND'S PROXIMITY TO LAKE MICHIGAN REMARKABLY PREVENTED A VERY DRY MONTH FROM OCCURING. THERE WERE SEVERAL DAYS WHERE LAKE EFFECT RAIN SHOWERS MOVED THROUGH SOUTH BEND BUT DID NOT MAKE IT MUCH FURTHER INLAND. SOUTH BEND, AND AREAS CLOSER TO LAKE MICHIGAN, HAD A RELATIVELY NORMAL OCTOBER WHILE MORE INLAND AREAS HAD A VERY DRY MONTH. MORE THAN HALF OF THE MONTH'S RAINFALL FELL ON OCTOBER 18TH AND 19TH, WHEN WIDESPREAD RAINFALL MOVED THROUGH THE AREA AND BROUGHT 0.80" AND 1.10" TO SOUTH BEND, RESPECTIVELY. OVERALL, A TOTAL OF 3.27" OF RAIN FELL THIS MONTH, WHICH IS 0.45" BELOW NORMAL. OCTOBER 2025 RANKS AS THE 57TH WETTEST OCTOBER ON RECORD. NO SNOW WAS RECORDED THIS MONTH. DESIPTE THE AVERAGE FIRST SNOWFALL OCCURRING ON NOVEMBER 12TH, OCTOBER DOES TYPICALLY AVERAGE 0.2" OF SNOW IN SOUTH BEND. THE LAST TIME MEASURABLE SNOW FELL IN SOUTH BEND WAS ON OCTOBER 31ST, 2023 WHEN 1.4" FELL. OCTOBER IS OFTEN A TRANSITION MONTH BETWEEN SUMMER AND FALL WITH LARGE TEMPERATURES SWINGS AND THIS YEAR WAS NO EXCEPTION. OCTOBER BEGAN WARMER THAN NORMAL WITH A PERISTENT UPPER LEVEL RIDGE PATTERN ACROSS THE MIDWEST AND GREAT LAKES REGIONS. THE FIRST HALF OF THE MONTH SAW NEAR RECORD HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S WITH WARM OVERNIGHT LOWS. A COOLER DAY OR TWO BRIEFLY OCCURRED BUT HEAT AND HUMIDITY DOMINATED THE FIRST HALF OF OCTOBER. IN FACT, A NEW RECORD WARM LOW WAS SET IN SOUTH BEND ON OCTOBER 18TH; THE LOW OF 61 DEGREES BROKE THE OLD RECORD WARM LOW OF 59 DEGREES SET IN 2007. A SERIES OF SEVERAL COLD FRONTS MOVED THROUGH DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE MONTH AS FALL FINALLY SETTLED IN BY THE END OF THE MONTH. COOLER AIR WAS ABLE TO OVERCOME THE PERISTENT HEAT BY THE LAST THIRD OF THE MONTH. BY THE END OF OCTOBER, HIGHS IN THE 50S AND 60S AND LOWS IN THE 30S AND 40S - HAD BECOME COMMON. THE FIRST WIDESPREAD FREEZE OF THE FALL OCCURRED ON OCTOBER 25TH WITH A LOW OF 29 DEGREES, EFFECTIVELY ENDING THE GROWING SEASON. OVERALL, THE MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 55.9 DEGREES, WHICH IS 3.9 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. OCTOBER 2025 RANKS AS THE 24TH WARMEST SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1893. ...NOVEMBER... AS IS COMMON IN THE FALL, NOVEMBER WAS AN ACTIVE TRANSITION MONTH FROM WARMER THAN NORMAL TO COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES. SEVERAL SYSTEMS WITH STRONG COLD FRONTS MOVED THROUGH THE AREA, WHICH OFTEN RESULTED IN SEVERAL DAYS OF WARM AIR OUT AHEAD OF THE INCOMING SYSTEM FOLLOWED BY COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES BEHIND IT. THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE THIS MONTH WAS 66 DEGREES, WHICH OCCURRED ON NOVEMBER 15TH. CONVERSELY, THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE THIS MONTH WAS 19 DEGREES, WHICH OCCURRED ON NOVEMBER 10TH. 15 DAYS THIS MONTH WERE COOLER THAN NORMAL. DESPITE A SIGNIFICANT COLD SNAP AFTER THANKSGIVING TO FINISH OUT THE MONTH, NOVEMBER FINISHED RIGHT AROUND NORMAL. OVERALL, THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 40.0 DEGREES AND WAS 0.2 DEGREES WARMER THAN NORMAL. THIS YEAR HAS BEEN NOTABLY DRY FOR SOUTH BEND, ESPECIALLY THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER AND FALL, AND THIS MONTH WAS NO EXCEPTION. 13 DAYS THIS MONTH HAD MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION, WITH 2 DAYS HAVING OVER A HALF INCH OF PRECIPITATION. 0.64" WAS MEASURED ON NOVEMBER 10TH AND 0.67" WAS MEASURED ON NOVEMBER 29TH. THERE WERE SEVERAL ADDITIONAL DAYS WITH TOTALS (EITHER RAIN OR MELTED SNOW EQUIVALENT) OF TOTALS AROUND A QUARTER INCH. IN TOTAL THIS MONTH, SOUTH BEND RECORDED 2.77" OF PRECIPITATION IN NOVEMBER, WHICH IS ONLY 0.01" SHY OF NORMAL. WHILE TEMPERATURES AND PRECIPITATION ARE UNREMARKABLE FOR NOVEMBER, WHAT IS NOTABLE ABOUT NOVEMBER IS THE IMPRESSIVE AMOUNT OF SNOW THAT FELL. TWO LARGE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 3RD SNOWIEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD IN SOUTH BEND! AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE MOVING THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES BROUGHT LAKE EFFECT SNOW ON NOVEMBER 9-11TH WITH AN IMPRESSIVE 14.3 " OF SNOW TOTAL. ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CAME THROUGH AT THE END OF THE MONTH ON NOVEMBER 29-30TH, TOTALLING A 2-DAY TOTAL OF 11.4" OF SYNOPTIC (SYSTEM) SNOWFALL. BETWEEN THESE TWO SYSTEMS, THE TOTAL SNOWFALL THIS MONTH WAS 27.1"! THIS RANKS AS THE 3RD SNOWIEST NOVEMBER ON RECORD, ONLY BEHIND 2022 (30.2") AND 1977 (30.3"). SNOWFALL THIS MONTH WAS 22.0" ABOVE NORMAL! THERE WERE TWO NEW DAILY SNOWFALL RECORDS SET DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER. 8.2" OF SNOW FELL ON NOVEMBER 9TH, SURPASSING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 8.0" SET IN 1913. 9.0" OF SNOW FELL ON NOVEMBER 29TH, WHICH BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 5.9" SET IN 1942. ...DECEMBER... THANKS TO A EARLY SEASON WINTER STORM AFTER THANKSGIVING, DECEMBER BEGAN MUCH COLDER AND SNOWIER THAN USUAL. SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW WAS ON THE GROUND TO BEGIN THE MONTH, WHICH KEPT TEMPERATURES MUCH COLDER THAN NORMAL (ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT). WHAT IS NOTABLE ABOUT THE COLD AIR THIS DECEMBER WAS HOW PROLONGED IT WAS. FOR THE FIRST HALF OF DECEMBER, HIGHS WERE COMMONLY IN THE 20S AND 30S AND LOWS WERE IN THE SINGLE DIGITS AND TEENS. AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FOR 15 OF THE FIRST 16 DAYS OF DECEMBER WERE BELOW NORMAL, WITH A FEW DAYS EVEN HAVING A 15+ DEGREE DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL! THERE WERE 14 DAYS THIS MONTH WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE AT OR BELOW 32 DEGREES. ONE NEW DAILY RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE WAS SET THIS MONTH; THE LOW TEMPERATURE ON THE MORNING ON DECEMBER 5TH OF 2 DEGREES BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 4 DEGREES SET BACK IN 1899! THE COLDEST LOW TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH OF 1 DEGREE OCCURRED ON DECEMBER 15TH. THE SECOND HALF OF DECEMBER FEATURED MOSTLY NEAR TO ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES DUE TO A SERIES OF WARM FRONTAL PASSAGES. THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE OBSERVED THIS MONTH WAS ON DECEMBER 28TH WHEN THE HIGH REACHED 64 DEGREES! THE 28TH WAS AN ANOMALOUSLY WARM DAY (TWO DEGREES SHY OF A RECORD HIGH) WHEN TEMPERATURES SURGED INTO THE LOW TO MID 60S ACROSS THE AREA AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT. DEWPOINTS ON THE AFTERNOON OF THE 28TH ALSO PEAKED AT 61 DEGREES IN SOUTH BEND, WHICH IS THE LATEST OCCURRENCE IN THE CALENDAR YEAR OF A DEWPOINT AT OR ABOVE 60 DEGREES! ONCE THE COLD FRONT MOVED THROUGH ON THE EVENING OF THE 28TH, TEMPERATURES PLUMMETED FROM THE MID 60S TO THE MID TEENS IN 18 HOURS! THIS WAS QUITE A RARE PHENOMENON TO OCCUR IN DECEMBER; THIS SHARP TEMPERATURE SHIFT IS MORE REMINISCENT OF EARLY FALL OR LATE SPRING NOT DECEMEBER! OVERALL, DECEMBER WAS COLDER THAN NORMAL WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 27.2 DEGREES. THIS IS 2.4 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 46TH COLDEST DECEMBER ON RECORD. THIS WAS THE COLDEST DECEMBER SINCE 2017. SEVERAL CLIPPER SYSTEMS AND LAKE EFFECT SNOW EVENTS IMPACTED THE AREA, BRINGING LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOW AMOUNTS THAT REALLY ADDED UP OVER THE COURSE OF THE MONTH. TWO CLIPPER SYSTEMS AT THE VERY END OF THE MONTH HELPED BOOST THE MONTHLY SNOW TOTAL TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL FOR DECEMBER. THE SNOWIEST DAY THIS MONTH WAS DECEMBER 7TH WHEN 2.7" FELL. TO GIVE SOME PERSEPECTIVE ON JUST HOW MUCH LACK OF SNOWFALL THERE HAS BEEN IN THE PAST DECADE, THIS DAILY AMOUNT IS MORE THAN THE TOTAL DECEMBER SNOWFALL THAT FELL IN 2018, 2021, AND 2023. OVERALL, THE MONTH FINISHED WITH 10.0 INCHES OF SNOW, WHICH IS 3.7 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THIS DECEMBER WAS THE 53RD LEAST SNOWY ON RECORD. DESPITE THE MONTHLY TOTAL BEING BELOW AVERAGE, THIS WAS THE SNOWIEST DECEMBER SINCE 15.4" FELL IN 2020. THE OVERALL MONTHLY PRECIPITATION AMOUNT (LIQUID SNOW EQUIVALENT + RAIN) WAS WELL ABOVE NORMAL THANKS TO HEAVY RAINFALL THAT OCCURRED IN TWO ROUNDS ON DECEMBER 28TH. OVER HALF OF THE MONTH'S PRECIPITATION FELL AS RAIN IN A SINGLE DAY! MORNING WIDESPREAD RAIN SHOWERS IN SOUTH BEND GAVE WAY TO A SEVERE RISK IN THE AFTERNOON AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT! HEAVY RAIN AND EVEN A FEW THUNDERSTORMS BROUGHT A WHOPPING 1.90" OF RAIN IN 24 HOURS AT THE SOUTH BEND AIRPORT! NOT ONLY WAS THIS A DAILY RECORD (PREVIOUS: 1.45" IN 2015), BUT DECEMBER 28TH ALSO SET THE HIGHEST DAILY PRECIPITATION TOTAL FOR ALL OF 2025 IN SOUTH BEND! IT IS ALSO THE HIGHEST SINGLE DAY TOTAL IN SOUTH BEND SINCE 4.30" OF RAIN FELL ON JUNE 26, 2021! BEFORE THE RAINFALL ON THE 28TH, THE MONTH WAS TRENDING WELL BELOW NORMAL FOR PRECIPITATION AS MUCH OF THE SNOW THAT FELL IN DECEMBER WAS OF THE LIGHTER, FLUFFIER TYPE, WHICH LED TO DRIER SNOW RATIOS. OVERALL, THANKS TO RECORD RAINFALL ON THE 28TH, THE MONTH FINISHED WITH 3.22 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION, WHICH IS 0.82 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS WAS THE 45TH WETTEST DECEMBER ON RECORD AND THE WETTEST SINCE 2021. JOHNSON/BROWN/ROLLER $$