40º Or Higher Temperatures In January For Indianapolis

Warm temperatures in January are not a foreign concept for Indianapolis. Matter of fact, they are to be expected.

Below are the number of 40º+, 50º+, and 60º+ days in January for Indianapolis...since 1872. Also, the January mean maximum temperature and the highest temperature for each month.

Decade and 30 year normals for the January mean maximum temperature...highest temperature value...and 40º+, 50º+, and 60º+ days.

Highest Temperature In The State Yesterday

Lafayette had the warmest high temperature in the state of Indiana yesterday. The warm bias at the Purdue University Airport in Fall continues...

Lafayette: 86º
Valparaiso: 84º
Peru: 84º
South Bend: 84º
Terre Haute: 83º
Indianapolis: 83º
Bloomington: 83º
Evansville: 83º
Muncie: 82º
Fort Wayne: 81º

October Warmth

The next 7 days look to be on the warm side with high temperatures in the upper 70's to low 80's. Normal high temperatures this time of year are in the upper 60's for Lafayette. Is this unusual? Well if we look back at some recent Octobers, no. Here are some October warm spells the past couple of years, relative to normal...

Oct 6-13, 2010: 77º, 79º, 82º, 87º, 87º, 86º, 83º, 73º
Oct 22-27, 2010: 68º, 77º, 78º, 74º, 75º, 69º

Oct 9-15, 2008: 75º, 78º, 83º, 86º, 80º, 71º, 81º

Oct 1-9, 2007: 76º, 84º, 79º, 86º, 88º, 90º, 91º, 90º, 78º
Oct 14-21, 2007: 75º, 79º, 71º, 77º, 83º, 65º, 74º, 78º

LAF = Warm High Temperatures

It's interesting how LAF is seemingly always one of the warmest locations in the state in the cool months . For the past two days, LAF has been the warmest or near warmest location in the state of Indiana.

Yesterday's high temperatures...
Terre Haute: 77º
Lafayette: 76º
Evansville: 76º
Indianapolis: 74º
Bloomington: 74º
Fort Wayne: 71º
Muncie: 70º
South Bend: 68º

Sunday's high temperatures...
Lafayette: 68º
Evansville: 68º
Terre Haute: 68º
Indianapolis: 67º
Bloomington: 67º
Muncie: 63º
Fort Wayne: 63º
South Bend: 61º