Climatological Report (Annual)
Issued by NWS
Issued by NWS
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CXUS53 KIWX 012050
CLASBN
CLIMATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
350 PM EST THU JAN 01 2026
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...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
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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
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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
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