Climatological Report (Seasonal)
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
Issued by NWS Northern Indiana
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CXUS53 KIWX 011345
CLSFWA
CLIMATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
945 AM EDT TUE SEP 01 2026
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...THE FORT WAYNE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE SEASON, FROM
6/1/2026 TO 8/31/2026...
CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1991 TO 2020
CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1897 TO 2026
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 95 07/01 82 13 95
07/03
LOWEST 48 06/03 61 -13 40
AVG. MAXIMUM 82.6 82.4 0.2 83.9
AVG. MINIMUM 62.1 61.7 0.4 63.0
MEAN 72.3 72.0 0.3
DAYS MAX >= 90 9 13.1 -4.1 23
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 13.87 12.33 1.54 7.56
DAILY AVG. 0.15 0.13 0.02 0.08
DAYS >= .01 36 30.8 5.2 28
DAYS >= .10 24 20.3 3.7 14
DAYS >= .50 8 8.0 0.0 7
DAYS >= 1.00 6 3.6 2.4 0
GREATEST
24 HR. TOTAL 2.20
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 39
SINCE 7/1 4 5 -1 24
COOLING TOTAL 714 681 33 840
SINCE 1/1 786 751 35 869
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WIND (MPH)
AVERAGE WIND SPEED 6.7
HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 49/230 DATE 06/11
HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 70/210 DATE 06/11
SKY COVER
POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM
AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.59
NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 18
NUMBER OF DAYS PC 45
NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 29
AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 74
WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH
THUNDERSTORM 26 MIXED PRECIP 0
HEAVY RAIN 17 RAIN 16
LIGHT RAIN 45 FREEZING RAIN 0
LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0
HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 0
LIGHT SNOW 0 SLEET 0
FOG 48 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 3
HAZE 7
- INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.
R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.
MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.
T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.
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...A MILD AND RAINY SUMMER FOR FORT WAYNE...
UNLIKE PREVIOUS YEARS, THERE WERE NO MAJOR EARLY AND LATE SEASON
HEATWAVES THIS SUMMER. DESPITE A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL RIDGES
THROUGHOUT THE SUMEMR MONTHS, HEAT GRADUALLY BUILT THROUGHOUT THE
JUNE AND A MAJORITY OF AUGUST WAS RELATIVELY SEASONABLE AS WELL. THE
PEAK HEAT OF THE SUMMER OCCURRED FROM LATE JUNE THROUGH MID JULY,
WITH CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF HIGHS IN THE LOW TO MID 90S AND OPPRESSIVE
HUMIDITY. THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE OF THE SUMMER WAS 95 DEGREES,
WHICH OCCURRED ON JULY 1ST AND JULY 3RD. THE COOLEST TEMPERATURE WAS
48 DEGREES, WHICH OCCURRED ON JUNE 3RD. THERE WERE 9 DAYS WITH
TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S THIS SUMMER, WHICH IS BELOW THE TYPICAL
AVERAGE OF 15 DAYS. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2021 THAT THE
NUMBER OF 90 DEGREE DAYS IN THE SUMMER HAS BEEN BELOW NORMAL.
DESPITE THE LACK OF VERY HOT DAYS, THE SUMMER WAS MILD OVERALL. FORT
WAYNE HAD AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 72.3 DEGREES THIS SUMMER, WHICH
IS 0.3 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL.
RAIN WAS EASIER TO COME BY THIS SUMMER COMPARED TO LAST YEAR,
HOWEVER, RAINFALL AMOUNTS MONTH TO MONTH WERE HIGHLY VARIABLE. MUCH
OF THE APPRECIABLE RAINFALL THIS SUMMER WAS FOUND IN DAILY POP-UP
SHOWERS AND STORMS DURING NORTHWEST FLOW AND A PERSISTENT UPPER
LEVEL RIDGE PATTERN THAT WAS PRESENT THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE SUMMER.
JUNE AND AUGUST BOTH HAD ABOVE NORMAL RAINFALL, WITH 4.47" AND 7.56"
RESPECTIVELY. IN FACT, THE FIRST 36 HOURS OF AUGUST HAD MORE
RAINFALL THAN THE ENTIRE MONTH OF JULY! RAINFALL WAS HARDER TO COME
BY IN THE JULY DURING THE PEAK HEAT OF THE SEASON, WITH JULY ENDING
UP DRIER THAN NORMAL WITH ONLY 1.84". OVERALL, THIS WAS THE FIRST
WETTER THAN NORMAL SUMMER IN FORT WAYNE SINCE 2021. 13.87" FELL IN
TOTAL, WHICH IS 1.54" ABOVE NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 23RD WETTEST
SUMMER ON RECORD. RECORDS BEGAN IN 1897.
A MONTH BY MONTH SUMMARY IS BELOW:
...TEMPERATURES SWINGS LEVEL OUT; NOTABLE SEVERE STORMS IN JUNE...
JUNE 2026 FEATURED DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURES AS WARM AS 12 DEGREES
ABOVE NORMAL (JUNE 10), AS WELL NINE DEGREES BELOW NORMAL (JUNE 15
AND 21). STARTING JUNE 14, A TWO-WEEK STRETCH OF BELOW-NORMAL
TEMPERATURES SANK THE MONTHLY AVERAGE BELOW NORMAL. PRECEDING THIS
WAS OUR FIRST 90-DEGREE DAY ON THE 10TH. THE END OF JUNE FEATURED AN
EXTREME HEAT WARNING WHERE HIGHS WARMED INTO THE LOW TO MID 90S FOR
SEVERAL DAYS. GIVEN ALL OF THE TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS THIS JUNE,
THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 70.3 DEGREES, WHICH IS 0.4
DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.
EPISODES OF SEVERE WEATHER AIDED TO THE MONTHLY RAINFALL TOTAL OF
4.47 INCHES, WHICH IS ONLY 0.01" BELOW NORMAL. SEVERE WEATHER ON
JUNE 11TH WAS NOTABLE AS 14 TORNADOES WERE SURVEYED ACROSS OUR 37-
COUNTY FORECAST AREA. THIS APPEARS TO BE THE GREATEST SINGLE-DAY
OUTBREAKS WITHIN OUR FORECAST AREA SINCE AUGUST 24, 2016 WHICH ALSO
HAD 14 TORNADOES. VISIT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/EVENTS TO READ MORE ABOUT
PAST SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS.
NO RECORDS WERE SET IN FORT WAYNE THIS MONTH.
... A HOT AND DRY JULY...
FORT WAYNE STARTED JULY HOT AND HUMID WITH A TYPICAL SUMMERTIME
HEATWAVE, INCLUDING SEVERAL DAYS WITH HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S TO MID
90S. OVERALL, THE FIRST HALF OF THE MONTH WAS HOT WITH 16 DAYS OF
ABOVE NORMAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURES. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY A LEAN
TOWARDS NEAR TO SLIGHTLY NELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES TO FINISH OUT THE
MONTH. THERE WERE 6 DAYS IN JULY WITH HIGHS IN THE 90S, WHICH
EXCEEDS THE MONTHLY AVERAGE OF 4. OVERALL, JULY AVERAGED 75.1
DEGREES, WHICH IS 1.3 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND TIES FOR THE 29TH
WARMEST JULY FOR THE PERIOD OF RECORD.
PRECIPITATION-WISE, JULY BROUGHT JUST 1 DAY OF GREATER THAN 0.5 INCH
OF RAIN: JULY 21ST (0.70"). RAINFALL WAS HARD TO COME BY OUTSIDE OF
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS THROUGHOUT THE MONTH. THERE WERE ONLY 8
DAYS WITH MEASURABLE RAINFALL IN JULY. THIS LED TO FORT WAYNE ONLY
GETTING ABOUT 45% OF THEIR NORMAL RAINFALL FOR THE MONTH. OVERALL,
1.84" OF RAIN FELL, WHICH IS 2.21" BELOW NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE
17TH DRIEST JULY ON RECORD. THIS WAS THE DRIEST JULY SINCE 2016.
OVERALL, JULY WAS A RELATIVELY QUIET MONTH SEVERE WEATHER-WISE WITH
2 DAMAGING WIND EVENTS ACROSS OUR FORECAST AREA ON JULY 3RD AND JULY
27TH. A TORNADO WAS SURVEYED ON THE 27TH IN GRANT COUNTY, IN. VISIT
WEATHER.GOV/IWX/EVENTS TO READ MORE ABOUT PAST SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS.
JULY HAD 1 DAILY RECORD WARM LOW TIED ON JULY 1ST WITH 74 DEGREES
TYING THE OLD RECORD OF 74 FROM 1913.
...A SEASONABLY SOGGY AUGUST...
OVERALL, AUGUST WAS A SEASONABLE MONTH WITH A MAJORITY OF DAYS
HAVING NEAR NORMAL TO SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND
LOW (OR AT LEAST TOLERABLE) HUMIDITY IN FORT WAYNE. THERE WERE 15
COOLER THAN NORMAL DAYS THROUGHOUT THE MONTH. THE WARMEST
TEMPERATURE THIS MONTH WAS 87 DEGREES ON AUGUST 31ST AND THE COOLEST
WAS A LOW OF 50 DEGREES ON AUGUST 25TH. ALTHOUGH THERE WERE
OCCASIONAL BOUTS OF WARMTH AND HUMIDITY, THERE WERE NO 90 DEGREE
DAYS THIS MONTH! THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THERE HAVE BEEN ZERO 90+
DEGREE DAYS IN AUGUST SINCE 2019; FORT WAYNE TYPICALLY AVERAGES IS 4
DAYS IN THE 90S EACH AUGUST. OVERALL, FORT WAYNE`S AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE THIS AUGUST WAS 71.6 DEGREES, WHICH IS EXACTLY AT
AVERAGE!
THE MONTH STARTED OFF SOGGY WHEN FORT WAYNE MEASURED 1.88" IN THE
FIRST 36 HORUS OF AUGUST, WHICH IS MORE THAN THEIR ENTIRE MONTHLY
TOTAL FROM JULY! THE ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN CONTINUED AS PERSISTENT
NORTHWEST FLOW AND THE "RING OF FIRE" PATTERN BROUGHT WELL ABOVE
NORMAL RAINFALL TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA DURING EARLY TO MID
AUGUST. HISTORIC RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 12"+ AND WIDESPREAD AREAL/RIVER
FLOODING WERE OBSERVED SOUTH OF THE US 30 CORRIDOR. FORT WAYNE WAS
ON THE NORTHERN PERIPHERY OF THIS SETUP, WHERE THERE WERE 3
CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF 1"+ OF RAINFALL FROM AUGUST 10-12. THE ONLY
OTHER TIME THAT 3 CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF 1"+ OF PRECIPITATION HAS
OCCURRED AT THE FORT WAYNE AIRPORT WAS JUNE 11-13, 2004. IN TOTAL,
THERE WERE 4 DAYS IN AUGUST WITH A DAILY RAINFALL TOTAL GREATER THAN
1": AUGUST 2ND (1.53"), AUGUST 10TH (1.20"), AUGUST 11TH (1.15"),
AND AUGUST 12TH (1.08"). THE ONLY OTHER AUGUST WITH MORE DAYS OF 1"+
OF RAINFALL WAS AUGUST 1990 WITH 5 DAYS. ALL IN ALL, A VERY ACTIVE
MONTH TOTALLED 7.56" OF RAIN FOR FORT WAYNE, WHICH IS 3.76" ABOVE
NORMAL AND RANKS AS THE 5TH WETTEST AUGUST ON RECORD! THIS WAS THE
WETTEST AUGUST SINCE 2018 WHEN 7.77" OF RAIN FELL. ADDITIONALLY,
THIS AUGUST`S TOTAL OF 7.56" IS 6.5 TIMES MORE RAINFALL THAN LAST
YEAR WHEN FORT WAYNE WAS EXPERIECING ITS 8 DRIEST AUGUST ON RECORD
IN 2025 WITH 1.16"! RECORDS BEGAN IN 1897.
THERE WERE NO TEMPERATURE OR PRECIPITATION RECORDS SET THIS MONTH.
JOHNSON/BROWN/ROLLER
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