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Last week, the topic around Indiana was the snow event in April. This week started off with above normal temperatures followed by significant rainfall.
Last week, the topic around Indiana was the snow event in April. This week started off with above normal temperatures followed by significant rainfall.
This week, much of Indiana got to see some snow falling as we were hoping that winter weather was behind us.
Just when we thought we were done wearing sweaters and using our furnaces, Mother Nature decided to throw us a curve ball.
March wrapped up as one of Indiana’s wettest (44th wettest out of 126 years) and warmest (16th warmest).
Overnight low temperatures the morning of October 16th reached into the low 30s (Fahrenheit), bringing an end to the growing season for a lot of vegetation across Indiana (Figure 1).
September was dry across Indiana with some counties being the driest on record since 1895 (Figure 1).
Abnormally dry/drought conditions continue across most of Indiana.
The climate outlooks from the national Climate Prediction Center are indicating significant confidence for below-normal precipitation through the first week of October and the monthly precipitation outlook for October is indicating slight confidence for below-normal precipitation throughout the month.
For those keeping track of my articles over the last few weeks, the outlooks of wetter and cooler than normal conditions have been the theme. The cooler temperatures never really came to fruition. In fact, most of Indiana was 1°F to 3°F above normal over the past two weeks (Figure 1)! Regarding the wetter-than-normal precipitation outlook, northern counties, northeastern Indiana, as well as along the Ohio River received above normal precipitation. However, the rest of the state experienced 1” to 2” less-than-normal precipitation over the past 2-week period (Figure 2). Even the above-normal precipitation in the northern and northeastern counties have had little impact relieving the developing drought conditions!
In last week’s article, cooler and wetter conditions were noted for the first half of September with some uncertainty for the latter half of the month.
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