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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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