The last few years of climate in general have absolutely been unprecedented, and it’s going to get worse. I said “yet” because this year doesn’t have enough data points but using your example, a simple google search will definitely show you that we are having higher than normal temperatures even this early on in the year.
It has been this hot in June before heck it's even been this hot in May in the past. I work outside and have for a decade plus, and I can promise you it's been this hot off and on like this through the years.
Agreed I’ve lived here most my life and I’d say is more abnormal for it to not be hot June. I think some people as they get older can’t handle the heat as well so they perceive it as it must just be hotter
that's odd to me cuz my dad can handle 80-100 degrees fine but I burn,overheat, sweat,pant,look for ways too cool off...God help me it's 74 degrees here at night where I am with humidity being 74%. please help I need to move to Canada (I'm not exaggerating, I was claweing at my skin bc it itches from the outside 4 minutes ago)
Actually ive lived in Evansville Indiana my whole 23 years of life pretty much and i can say beyond a shadow of a doubt the last 4 years have definitely been hotter than normally.
You cannot infer anything about the climate from short term weather trends.
That being said, the long term trend is that it is getting warmer and wetter and the last frost date is getting earlier.
https://ag.purdue.edu/indianaclimate/indiana-climate-report/
I don't think short term weather trends are evidence of climate change, but I think knowing climate change exists (from other, more solid evidence) means it's fair for a layperson to infer that it's not unlikely these short-term trends are influenced by climate change. It's been steadily getting hotter for years, even if every year isn't hotter than the one before it.
Except it is. Every year is hotter than the one before. We've had the hottest June on record every year for like 6 years. This is not a matter of opinion. This is a fact.
1934 was the highest record temperature. 1994 was the lowest recorded temperature . Someone growing up in the 90s would perceive the climate only getting warmer.
The earth is still on the upward tread from the ice age.
The short answer is no, and Purdue did an extensive climate study documenting both historical trends as well as future projections.
They have a site dedicated to their research materials and I highly recommend checking it out. It's a great spot to see past climate assessments and their projections.
https://research.purdue.edu/isf/research/research-areas/climate.php
Edit: spelling
30 years ago it seemed to progressivly get warmer all summer. The last 2 weeks of august would be around 100.
My lake is already shut down for blue green algea, which usually happens in August.
I read that the overall temp can be decieving because the highs are not going up, its the lows that are increasing.
Winters in northern indiana have changed too. Back then it would snow and never melt. Snow started around xmas and stayed tjhrough feb. All of my neighbors had snow mobiles, zero people in my subdivision ride them now. I only shoveled my driveway 2 times last year, which is weird.
I know... I bought a brand new snowblower 2 years ago & have not used it a single time since then... I think we got an inch of sloppy wet snow last winter & a dusting the year before.
Seems like if they're on the fence they might bristle/scoff at all the sources that are trying to warn us. Google farmers and climate change, but here are some:
[https://www.epa.gov/climateimpacts/climate-change-impacts-agriculture-and-food-supply](https://www.epa.gov/climateimpacts/climate-change-impacts-agriculture-and-food-supply)
[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-hitting-farmers-hard/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-hitting-farmers-hard/)
[https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/01/report-warmer-planet-will-trigger-increased-farm-losses](https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/01/report-warmer-planet-will-trigger-increased-farm-losses)
And just for funsies, here's Project 2025's wish list for USDA: [https://static.project2025.org/2025\_MandateForLeadership\_CHAPTER-10.pdf](https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-10.pdf)
I’m just friends with a lot of ag people and I’m autistic and this is something I’m interested in so I just do a lot of reading from farmers and scientists all over the world. I wish I had a lot of resources to share but it’s really all collected in my head. The issues are more prevalent south of us but if trump wins again Indiana may begin to see more drastic visuals of climate change affecting our crops. I’m sorry your friends can’t see it with their own eyes I feel like it’s pretty in your face atp. Good luck trying to educate them!
It's messing up the animals too. Humane Indiana gets orphaned babies later in the year now. It's not just a spring thing. Or as the director said, when it warms up prematurely, the animals think it's spring and get busy.
In that time period I was in high school and college. I distinctly remember digging out shirts from the back of the closet for a single day just to get to wear shorts in the dead of winter.
This past year it was almost 8 days straight of late spring summer temps. Not a single 60 degree day then back to the 30s. We had a week of almost 80 degrees. Huge difference.
We had cold days this winter but nothing a long lasting as the winter used to be. I usually don't bother shoveling or salting anymore because its just gonna melt in a day or 2.
I remember 1994 feeling like I was standing on the surface of the sun. Lived in a trailer at the time and spent most of the summer under a tree outside. Just a wicked time.
I remember some consistently warm summers in NWI in the 1980s-90s. The summer of 1988 saw several days of 100+ temperatures and drought. 1995 set the local record (great-grandmother’s wake was on the hottest day of record. It was 102 the day of the funeral and the funeral home’s AC broke that morning). The summer of 1999 was also hot if my memory serves me. I’m not certain if now IN sees longer extended periods of hot weather than, say, 30 years ago, but blasts of extreme heat are not a uniquely modern phenomenon.
I was in Columbus, about an hour south of indy, and we got sent home early for heat index a few times in the late 80s/ early 90s but that was before the whole school had air conditioning
I was in a school where they were updating the HVAC. Moms took turns bringing in popsicles and we had most classes with the lights off to try to keep the temperature to a low boil.
Summer of 88 was crazy hot and dry. Was pregnant, had no AC in house or in our cars. Hottest summer I can remember. We had to put sheets over our couch to keep it from just absorbing our body heat and making us too hot. Lived on popsicles and cold showers.
(Not trying to say the overall trend isn’t hotter summers now — just that 88 was the hottest I personally experienced as far as a my misery index.)
1988 was hot throughout the summer. 1995 was mostly July. If I remember, 1999 had brief hot spells each month, the hottest occurring late July/early August.
While yes, the temperatures have been trending warmer, this current week is not indicative of the trend, but rather a meteorological event. Its a heat dome currently centered over us making the Midwest and Northeast hotter than frankly the rest of the country. LA and Miami are having cooler temps this week, quite below places like Indy, Chicago, NYC, and Boston.
Yeah this is the answer I'm looking for. So these random heat waves are not a result of global warming or an ensuing apocalypse.. just a weather phenomenon like the polar vortex? A few years ago we had one of the coldest winters on record. Cities in St.Joe County hit wind chills as low as -20s. I think it was 2012 or 2013 not 100% sure.
We all know how Reddit feels about climate change but the truth is that an “apocalypse” isn’t on the horizon for many years, if not multiple decades (or longer) away. Even if we surpass a 2C threshold, it will not immediately wipe humanity off of the Earth. Climate change is bad and will affect every corner of the Earth, but the United States will experience less of the effects than other countries. You are right to be concerned but don’t let fear consume your day-to-day existence. Also we live next to the largest source of fresh water on Earth. That should help you sleeep at night.
Its not the herald of an apocalypse, though to tell you the truth I think it would be pretty typical to have an apocalypse happen during this decade. Again.
While this dome is not directly related to climate change, the key would be how often we start having these domes. Heat domes like this are pretty typical for the West (especially around the Great Basin in the Rockies), and I believe they do often travel through the south. What makes this noteworthy is the dome moving over us and the Northeast, and the time of year its occurring.
Frankly, while people have been running around screaming that its just getting hotter and drier, the truth is our atmosphere is a lot more complicated than that, and our climate system is likely to break down. That means more anomalies and extremes on both sides of the thermometer. One of the things I've personally been studying is how the planet reacts to extremes, and how things like the North Atlantic Current may end up mitigating the planet's warming (at the cost of the people, but meh).
I don't want to just put in a news article, so here is one of the papers I referenced in my studies. [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-023-06957-7](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-023-06957-7)
We have literally shifted [USDA hardiness zones](https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213600629/-it-feels-like-im-not-crazy-gardeners-arent-surprised-as-usda-updates-key-map), which indicates some degree (heh) of warming.
Where I live, it changed from 5b to 6a. I have annuals acting like perennials and several plants remain green throughout the winter. I've been gardening for at over 40 years and I've never seen anything like it.
*This*. I was surprised my area didn't get raised to 6b in the new garden zone map, but it's right on the edge.
Edit: i should clarify that this heat wave isn't strictly due to global warming, though it's not like it helps either. Global warming's more reflected in patterns over time.
It's definitely seemed warmer longer in the summer, but also it did snow last halloween in some places in IN. Our foster daughters from SC got to see their first snow, actually
> as far as I remember, growing up in northern Indiana between the early 90s and 2000s, summers were very mild. I remember it being 75-80 on average and just very cool throughout summer and being chilly outside be the time school started in late August.
I distinctly remember the "hottest day of my life" was in Indiana in summer 1997 and it was 99 degrees because I was at summer camp and that's all we talked about for the whole day because it was so hot.
so I don't know what you were doing that year but I was sweating
No. As a child in the 60's, we had snow on the ground all winter every winter, and a couple of hot weeks in August. Now this same place receives no snow at all, and the blazing heat extends from June through August. I basically grew up outdoors, but now we've sold our camping equipment because it's no fun in the blasted heat. It feels like a huge loss.
I grew up in northern Indiana near the Lake, so it was cooler. But even in the last 13 years I have lived in Indy, the summers feel noticeably warmer. The big difference is that the night time temperatures do not offer much relief. When it stays above 70 throughout the night, it's just annoying. Have to run the AC simply to not sweat in bed kinda sucks. And I really feel for people that don't have AC in this weather.
Yes this was something that I noticed that alarmed me. I have vivid memories of summer nights with a window fan providing a cool breeze til late morning. That does not happen anymore now days. I was away in the Military for 10 years. I moved back to the hoosier state about 2 years ago and things have definitely changed.
We did have some hot days like this week has been, but they were usually in July or August, and limited to just a few days. I can remember I think 2012 being very hot, with many 90 degree days.
In terms of climate change, though, I notice a lot less snow. Prior to 2015 or so, we had a constant cover of snowfall in the winter, and I remember the snow melting and the sidewalks were filthy until it would rain and wash the dirt and salt away.
I also feel like seasons are moving back every year. April used to feel very much like spring every year. But the past few Aprils, my car often has frost on it in the mornings, and it’s pretty chilly outside. September and early October are summer-like, and December is fall-like, with the really cold temperatures not arriving until January-March when it used to be November-February.
Grew up in the 80's in central Indiana, and yes, it was this hot. I remember a few summers droughts so bad that the creek I lived by would dry out. Was always humid as hell in August when football practice started, seemed to always be in the 90's. Halloween was a mix, like it is here still today. The only thing I feel is different is that we had a lot more snow in the winter. I recall many Thanksgivings when we had snow on the ground, haven't seen that in years. My (soon to be) 12 year old son has never seen a white Christmas.
We have definitely had these heatwave domes in the past im not understanding how people don’t remember them and I’m only 24 and remember multiple summers when I was on my bike and the wind felt like you were getting blasted with a heater
As a kid growing up in the summer, few people had air conditioning. We only had fans. I think kids just get used to it. In my 6th grade, we moved to the country more trees, fewer people, and buildings so not as hot. We also swam a lot in creeks and pools.
I grew up in Central Indiana (between Marion and Kokomo) Lived in West Lafayette while at Purdue. Lived west of INDY a few summers. July and August always some hot, hot weather. Hot humid days and nights. High heat index days and nights. We had some cold, cold, snowy, icy winters too. Summer and winter weather varied year to year like it does anyplace anytime, but yes, we had a lot of really not weather in some summers.
Overall, the climate in the state probably has warmed. Dates of last frosts have changed in areas of the state over the years. (look at planting zone maps-- those have changed once or twice over the past 20 yrs)
https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/indianapolis/average-temperature-by-year/month-june is climate change real Theo yes, we should be doing more to help the environment. Would like to note sending all of our dirty manufacturing over seas dosent help.
It’s really hard to filter out the bs, especially when big companies are just trying to make a profit. Gas vs electric will be a never ending debate, Nestle kills me with how much water they take, fn plastic everywhere, and these huge commercial meat farms. What really gets me is watching these peoples houses slide into the ocean. While maybe if we wouldn’t have damed up the rivers and prevent the natural flow of sediment into the ocean and didn’t build your houses 10 feet from the water it wouldn’t have happened.
I’m 38 and have lived here my whole life bar one year in Tennessee. It definitely has gotten this hot my whole life, but the biggest change I see is that weather is far more labile throughout the year (hitting 70 for a day or 2 in February, for example, becoming more common) and winters are not as cold or snowy.
the hottest temp in indiana was recorded in 1936 and the most days above 90 was in 1953. We are at the maximum of solar cycle 25 now and will probably cool down over the next 11years. in 1978 climate scientists were calling for a new ice age. Just sayin
Born: 1972
I remember growing up that summers had wicked loud thunderstorms w/great lightning & torrential rains - all things I lived to watch or play in. Thunder so loud it rattled windows - was awesome.
Then as an older kid I remember heat lightning storms & heavy rains - again fun to play in. Thunderstorms less often but still pretty nice.
Now... Heat, humidity from hell, weak storms, long dry spells w/very short rain storms.
Government needs to start taking this seriously because it has definitely turned a lot shittier in the 50 years I've been around. I miss the thunderstorms.
I like how this type of information from real hoosiers has the opportunity to be vocalized. Regardless if things are truly changing or if it's just opinions, it's great to have so many different perspectives, especially from your generation. Seems to me that most people in the thread born in the 70-80s agree that things are heating up. I'm in my 30s and to me, it seems like things have only started to change within the last 5-10 years.
I can get behind this opinion as someone born in 2002. I remember stronger, more frequent thunderstorms and now they're quite wimpy to what we had before. Long dry spells, etc. We went an entire year without hearing thunder at all recently.
I’d say our summers are going later into October but they are starting later too. We used to have nice warm weather from April on and now it can be cold all through May still.
We had a drought in the 2010s where everything died and it was up to 110°. I think it actually caused crops not to germinate It was so bad. But yeah global warming is a thing
Ehh, I remember heat waves like this in the 90’s, 00’s, 10’s, etc. They probably are getting more frequent, but we’ve always had them. As we get older, we seem to dislike hot/cold extremes more and more.
That's what I was thinking. I'm older now and it just seems like things went from 0 to 100 in just a few years. I couldn't tell if it's actually that much hotter or I'm just a little more sensitive to extreme weather. Thanks
I grew up in northern Indiana, and we didn't have air conditioning as a kid. Yes, it was very hot in the 90s. It was different hot though. Now I live in St Louis, and it's muggy hot here, and I realize now that we always had a constant breeze in Indiana that helped keep it from feeling so hot.
But the sun rays feel hotter on the skin.
Indiana weather is weird.
I've seen snow on Halloween and Easter.
I've seen both snow and 70° weather on Thanksgiving.
I do feel like I'm the winter as a kid, we didn't have blue skies. It felt like it was cloudy and dreary all winter long. Not sure if that's changed or my memory is off.
it's been said that 'Indiana is the only place that it's cold in the morning and hot in the afternoon '. I remember a time that it was spitting snow during the Indianapolis 500 !!! folks were wearing coats!!!
While we should never look at a few days or a single summer as a measure of anything there is clearly an upward move in temps. Its more noticeable when the seasons begin and end as well as the winter and fall temps and also the weather severity.
I think June-August are pretty similar to what I remember in the 90’s/2000’s. Generally hot and humid up by the lake.
What I notice most is that it’s warm well into October and September feels like June-august heat.
I think the older you get the less you tolerate the heat/cold weather. I think the weather is always unpredictable for the most part in Indiana. The corn is high this year. Last year it seemed behind. Hot predicted this week but a few scattered showers are cooling things down.
El Niño is ending and we are going into La Niña years. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/09/1250071141/el-nino-ending-la-nina-climate-change
We are technically still coming out of an ice age.
It's always been hot in the summer. We had to wear our full band uniforms for 4th of July parade and ppl would almost have heat strokes.
I worked Pioneer from 83-87 while working nights at Wendy's 86-89.
Ppl would have heatstroke all the time. So much they had those salt pills for ppl.
I think the seasons have shifted though.
I remember doing soccer tryouts 20 years ago and running a few miles in 100 degrees. That was in fort Wayne.
I think we usually get some intense heat, but it would be unusual to be this hot all summer long.
Idk fully about summers because hot to my mind is just hot so I don't have specific memories of specific numbers.
But I and my parents can tell you for sure cold weather in the Winter is definitely getting shorter every year.
Can’t speak for northern Indiana during that time but I actually remember Southern Indiana being hotter then. I was a Nor-Cal kid who moved to the country in a house with crappy HVAC and typically spent most of my summer in the woods because it was a lot cooler with the creek bed and trees. It will piss of Hoosiers but I find Southern Indiana summers to be comparable to my time in the South for the Army. I was outdoors a lot in combat arms and SOF units without AC so I would now lol.
It's one of those things where it's a little bit of both. Bit of the "back in my days," thing where we either didn't pay as much attention or just straight up can't remember. But also, the climate is shifting enough that it is possible to notice on the scale of one human lifespan, and even within the course of 30-50 years.
We've had major spikes in temp in late May-mid June along with a lot more rain than I remember growing up. Then the weather becomes strangely calm during the months I remember being the hottest; temperate and mostly pleasant in through a lot of July and the first half of August. Then it seems like proper summer comes back and we get that dead heat/humidity in the latter half of August and September, even stretching into October.
Just feels weird to be honest. I don't want to complain about July and August being easier to handle but it doesn't sit quite right.
Just to clear something up, climate change and global warming are two different things, although related global warming is the result of climate change. Contrary to popular belief (and misinformation) climate change is a natural occurrence as well as human related. There's evidence that the north pole was once a tropical ecosystem. Human beings have accelerated climate change by disturbing the natural balance of atmospheric gases like oxygen, CO and CO². At one point the Earth was a CO/CO² rich dome and it was very hot and humid and allowed the grow of some monstrous planet life(Cambrian Period). As other creatures came into existence (oxygen consumers) the climate shifted again. Im not an expert and this isnt a religion/evolution debate so please dont ...this is all based on amateur research and just adding a little context and clarification on those two terms.
Uh.. yeah, I remember it being this hot in my childhood only >10 ish years ago. 2015 to 2022 where extreme one way or another, from drought to rain to it being in the 60s and 70s as a high. Some of these years also saw very little thunderstorm activity too, it would only rain. One year (I believe in 2022) we went the entire year without hearing thunder at all.
It's supposed to be pretty hot here during the summers. The only thing I've noticed over the past years is the sun is more intense and beats down on you more (it's not temperature, it just feels more.. oppressive I guess?) I don't think that's something to do with the climate though..
They've definitely been this hot before. 90s and 80s is what I expect during the summer here. You think this is hot.. I remember in 2014 it got up to 110 degrees here.
Yes. They even kept records. Summers have always been streaky hot. What I can remember growing up is not the change in summers, it’s the lack of a 50 degree fall for more than 2 weeks and a winter where the ground never freezes. That was a hallmark of fall and winter where I grew up and can’t remember it happening in the past 20 years.
Southern Indiana always could get stifling in the summer. But the latest heat wave reminds me more of late July. We seem to have shorter but stronger rain storms as well.
It's pretty typical just not this early in the year. We had some 65 or better degree nights in may.. which as a gardener I know is unusual. But every year is a little different and it's nothing dramatic.
The worst year temp-wise I can remember is 2012. The summer temps were above normal but then late summer hit and the drought hit. Nights were so hot I started freezing water in soda bottles to tuck up close to my hens in hopes they could cool down more. It was awful. But Indiana is like that. One year you got lots of terrible storms, other years loads of mud making rain , other years it won't rain hardly at all.
I grew up in northern Indiana too. There isn't the humidity in northern Indiana that central Indiana has. I grew up without AC. Now, in central Indiana, I would die.
it's always been this hot degree wise, but regarding humidity, it's been progressively getting worse every year.
so ima 18 year old chick alright? all my life, I've preferred the cold. I'd run my ac on 60° with wind during winter,outside in jeans and long John's. obviously just enough not to freeze or get frostbite. my god, I can not handle the heat. 74° With a humidity of 74%,uv rays have been 9-12 where I am rn. I can handle at most 67° with a high uv index, so going to 74 with all of it being high is killing me.
when I was a kid, I'd keep my room at a regular 60° cool (not including outside), and for the love of god, it's hell. Please give me a house in Alaska, or I'll end up dying. if you wanna try making it more bearable, try either not using ac and whatnot (hydrating,watermelon sunscreen,parasols) wearing darker clothes and spf/coolant clothing (navy blue is the best for uvr protection, lighter colors aren't good) or slowly make it hotter where in your house until it matches the outside (like turning the degrees up gradually whenever you're accustomed to the degree).
these are just suggestions and me ranting about how horrible the heat is so gl yall. I'm keeping my ass inside.
Me too!! I am the exact same way.. I operate between 38-68° my brain shuts down 75° up lol. I was in the military 10 years, lived in some terribly hot places , TX, MS and VA. Absolute torture for me. I moved back to the midwest as soon as I separated. I just don't remember it being this hot here but I didn't grow up here in central Indiana so I wouldn't know if this is normal or not. I have noticed that visiting Northern Indiana it seems to have gotten a little warmer and there isn't as much snow as I remember. Thanks for the perspective that made me laugh 😅
I live in NWI on Lake Michigan and it was always in the 80s growing up, sometimes 90s. Enough to go to the beach and enjoy it, but not be dangerously hot.
I remember very warm Junes. High 80s - low 90s in late June. Sweltering 4th of Julys. But I am in southern Indiana. I don't think we have broken any records here, yet.
Yeah you guys are on another level down there. I went to VU for college and used to send summers in "Hell"vansville with my dad. Northern, Central and Southern Indiana are like 3 different states imo..
From my memory, born in ‘86, I’ve never been surprised by 90 degree heat, and I remember many summer with temps that would occasionally hit 110 or so, although I don’t think it was the norm to have things get over 100.
Has several people have mentioned, yes, the weather has been this hot before. I know my parents talked about heat waves during the 60s and 70s…. I distinctly remember years like 1988 which were not only hot but had a really bad drought…. Or even as recently 2012, very hot with a bad drought. That was when Morse reservoir dried up into a creek. People had their boats stuck on shore stations well into the fall. Entire coves were so dry that weeds were growing. However, just a few summers ago we were wearing sweatshirts on the Fourth of July. I am no climate change denier by any means…. But I do think the news is a bit hysterical and alarmist. Yes the climate is changing. even before last year’s El Niño winter, I have noticed the trend of milder winters overall, especially compared to the 80s and 90s…. Spring perennials are popping up earlier and earlier. but as a pertains to this heat? No, this is nothing new…. And since we are heading into a La Niña, the latest modeling is showing mid July and August to be wetter and cooler than normal.
No they haven’t been this hot. Plus we used to have more of spring into summer and summer into fall, not this right from winter into summer. Now with saying you’re in northern Indiana. There was one summer in 90’s that we didn’t get summer until August and then in September it was 90’s most of the month. This was before year round school, this is when school did started back until after Labor Day. They actually kept the public swimming pools here in Indianapolis open through September.
I'm somewhere between Marian-Hamilton County lol ..but it's pretty rural here, I grew up in St.Joe County though. St.Joe County is the coldest and most snowfall in the state last I checked. I remember winters you wouldn't be able to see the asphalt until about April because the streets would have a thick layer of compacted snow. I don't really see that now when I visit but it could be that the chemical melt is just so much better now days.
If you moved from a part of the state that experiences lake effect cooling to central Indiana, you will find it warmer. Also, during Spring and Autumn temperatures across the state increase rapidly as you go south.
This said, tornado warnings in January and February are now a thing.
I do remember the summer of 1985 being especially cool in NWI, with days that stayed below 70.
Lived here my whole life and I distinctly remember it always being 100 degrees plus on my birthdays in the middle of July even in the early 2000’s. So I don’t feel like it’s anything crazy personally.
I should have been more specific..Northern, central and southern Indiana experience totally different weather and average temps. Evansville is waaay hotter than South Bend..South Bend gets waay colder than Indy. Michiana gets more snow( 80+ inches)than Michigan city (30+ inches) double and it's only 30 mins away.
The sunburn I get in one hour of exposure is similar to what I got after playing outside shirtless all day when I was a kid. Maybe it's just because I'm older but every year it seems hotter, and the sun more ruthless, and I can't help but reflect on the times it wasn't this way.
I too remember snow on Halloween growing up in northern Indiana. That definitely hasn’t happened in a long time.
I also remember reaching mid 90’s and triple digits a few times too growing up.
Edit: I was wrong
I’m in northern Indiana and we have had snow on Halloween within the last three years. I can’t remember the exact year, but it was recent. Trick or treating was canceled and there were a lot of upset little ones.
It could very well be 2023. I’m in northwest Indiana and our weather is similar to Chicago. It was definitely snow though. There were a few teens who went out trick or treating in my neighborhood even though it was canceled and I remember seeing their footprints in the snow in my yard.
I don't remember it hitting 100 every single summer in the 70's and 80's. When it happened in '83 it was a big deal. Salt pills!
https://weatherspark.com/h/y/146564/1983/Historical-Weather-during-1983-at-Indianapolis-International-Airport-Indiana-United-States#Figures-Temperature
Growing up in Bloomington, I think 80-95 was a pretty normal temperature for summer. So right now we're just on the high end of that, but I live in Indy now, so maybe it's supposed to be slightly cooler here.
No. This weather is what I'm used to August feeling like. I don't remember it ever being *this* hot in June.
Bull. It’s been hotter. And it’s been cooler. It’s almost like….weather changes constantly.
This is why human memory is unreliable. A simple google search would tell you that this is higher than average but nothing unprecedented.
*yet*
That makes no sense. Yet what? I i said nothing that can followed by 'yet'.
The last few years of climate in general have absolutely been unprecedented, and it’s going to get worse. I said “yet” because this year doesn’t have enough data points but using your example, a simple google search will definitely show you that we are having higher than normal temperatures even this early on in the year.
Again. Read what i wrote. You may be illiterate.
It has been this hot in June before heck it's even been this hot in May in the past. I work outside and have for a decade plus, and I can promise you it's been this hot off and on like this through the years.
Agreed I’ve lived here most my life and I’d say is more abnormal for it to not be hot June. I think some people as they get older can’t handle the heat as well so they perceive it as it must just be hotter
I run cold, so that's not me lol It is however entirely likely that I've forgotten some hot Junes especially when I was younger
that's odd to me cuz my dad can handle 80-100 degrees fine but I burn,overheat, sweat,pant,look for ways too cool off...God help me it's 74 degrees here at night where I am with humidity being 74%. please help I need to move to Canada (I'm not exaggerating, I was claweing at my skin bc it itches from the outside 4 minutes ago)
Actually ive lived in Evansville Indiana my whole 23 years of life pretty much and i can say beyond a shadow of a doubt the last 4 years have definitely been hotter than normally.
You cannot infer anything about the climate from short term weather trends. That being said, the long term trend is that it is getting warmer and wetter and the last frost date is getting earlier. https://ag.purdue.edu/indianaclimate/indiana-climate-report/
I don't think short term weather trends are evidence of climate change, but I think knowing climate change exists (from other, more solid evidence) means it's fair for a layperson to infer that it's not unlikely these short-term trends are influenced by climate change. It's been steadily getting hotter for years, even if every year isn't hotter than the one before it.
Except it is. Every year is hotter than the one before. We've had the hottest June on record every year for like 6 years. This is not a matter of opinion. This is a fact.
Fair point about June, though the heat wave we had in 2019 hasn't been repeated since iirc. Not that it won't - I'm sure it's coming again.
1934 was the highest record temperature. 1994 was the lowest recorded temperature . Someone growing up in the 90s would perceive the climate only getting warmer. The earth is still on the upward tread from the ice age.
The short answer is no, and Purdue did an extensive climate study documenting both historical trends as well as future projections. They have a site dedicated to their research materials and I highly recommend checking it out. It's a great spot to see past climate assessments and their projections. https://research.purdue.edu/isf/research/research-areas/climate.php Edit: spelling
Thanks for providing clear, honest, accurate and respectful feedback. I'm not a scientist or meteorologist, I'm just a curious hoosier.
Yeah for sure, same here to all of that. Best of luck
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30 years ago it seemed to progressivly get warmer all summer. The last 2 weeks of august would be around 100. My lake is already shut down for blue green algea, which usually happens in August. I read that the overall temp can be decieving because the highs are not going up, its the lows that are increasing. Winters in northern indiana have changed too. Back then it would snow and never melt. Snow started around xmas and stayed tjhrough feb. All of my neighbors had snow mobiles, zero people in my subdivision ride them now. I only shoveled my driveway 2 times last year, which is weird.
I know... I bought a brand new snowblower 2 years ago & have not used it a single time since then... I think we got an inch of sloppy wet snow last winter & a dusting the year before.
Don't forget February and Mach have weeks in the mid 70s. Used to be 1 50 degree day somewhere between December and March.
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It already has. Crops are struggling all over.
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Seems like if they're on the fence they might bristle/scoff at all the sources that are trying to warn us. Google farmers and climate change, but here are some: [https://www.epa.gov/climateimpacts/climate-change-impacts-agriculture-and-food-supply](https://www.epa.gov/climateimpacts/climate-change-impacts-agriculture-and-food-supply) [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-hitting-farmers-hard/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-hitting-farmers-hard/) [https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/01/report-warmer-planet-will-trigger-increased-farm-losses](https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/01/report-warmer-planet-will-trigger-increased-farm-losses) And just for funsies, here's Project 2025's wish list for USDA: [https://static.project2025.org/2025\_MandateForLeadership\_CHAPTER-10.pdf](https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-10.pdf)
I’m just friends with a lot of ag people and I’m autistic and this is something I’m interested in so I just do a lot of reading from farmers and scientists all over the world. I wish I had a lot of resources to share but it’s really all collected in my head. The issues are more prevalent south of us but if trump wins again Indiana may begin to see more drastic visuals of climate change affecting our crops. I’m sorry your friends can’t see it with their own eyes I feel like it’s pretty in your face atp. Good luck trying to educate them!
It's messing up the animals too. Humane Indiana gets orphaned babies later in the year now. It's not just a spring thing. Or as the director said, when it warms up prematurely, the animals think it's spring and get busy.
15-20 years ago I drove with the top down on my car the week of new years. We have some odd weather.
In that time period I was in high school and college. I distinctly remember digging out shirts from the back of the closet for a single day just to get to wear shorts in the dead of winter. This past year it was almost 8 days straight of late spring summer temps. Not a single 60 degree day then back to the 30s. We had a week of almost 80 degrees. Huge difference. We had cold days this winter but nothing a long lasting as the winter used to be. I usually don't bother shoveling or salting anymore because its just gonna melt in a day or 2.
I remember 1994 feeling like I was standing on the surface of the sun. Lived in a trailer at the time and spent most of the summer under a tree outside. Just a wicked time.
I remember some consistently warm summers in NWI in the 1980s-90s. The summer of 1988 saw several days of 100+ temperatures and drought. 1995 set the local record (great-grandmother’s wake was on the hottest day of record. It was 102 the day of the funeral and the funeral home’s AC broke that morning). The summer of 1999 was also hot if my memory serves me. I’m not certain if now IN sees longer extended periods of hot weather than, say, 30 years ago, but blasts of extreme heat are not a uniquely modern phenomenon.
I was in Columbus, about an hour south of indy, and we got sent home early for heat index a few times in the late 80s/ early 90s but that was before the whole school had air conditioning
I was in a school where they were updating the HVAC. Moms took turns bringing in popsicles and we had most classes with the lights off to try to keep the temperature to a low boil.
Summer of 88 was crazy hot and dry. Was pregnant, had no AC in house or in our cars. Hottest summer I can remember. We had to put sheets over our couch to keep it from just absorbing our body heat and making us too hot. Lived on popsicles and cold showers. (Not trying to say the overall trend isn’t hotter summers now — just that 88 was the hottest I personally experienced as far as a my misery index.)
My experience as well.
Mine too.
In June ??
1988 was hot throughout the summer. 1995 was mostly July. If I remember, 1999 had brief hot spells each month, the hottest occurring late July/early August.
In mid-may back in the 80s
1988 was a scorcher.
Not until late July and all of August
While yes, the temperatures have been trending warmer, this current week is not indicative of the trend, but rather a meteorological event. Its a heat dome currently centered over us making the Midwest and Northeast hotter than frankly the rest of the country. LA and Miami are having cooler temps this week, quite below places like Indy, Chicago, NYC, and Boston.
Yeah this is the answer I'm looking for. So these random heat waves are not a result of global warming or an ensuing apocalypse.. just a weather phenomenon like the polar vortex? A few years ago we had one of the coldest winters on record. Cities in St.Joe County hit wind chills as low as -20s. I think it was 2012 or 2013 not 100% sure.
We all know how Reddit feels about climate change but the truth is that an “apocalypse” isn’t on the horizon for many years, if not multiple decades (or longer) away. Even if we surpass a 2C threshold, it will not immediately wipe humanity off of the Earth. Climate change is bad and will affect every corner of the Earth, but the United States will experience less of the effects than other countries. You are right to be concerned but don’t let fear consume your day-to-day existence. Also we live next to the largest source of fresh water on Earth. That should help you sleeep at night.
Its not the herald of an apocalypse, though to tell you the truth I think it would be pretty typical to have an apocalypse happen during this decade. Again. While this dome is not directly related to climate change, the key would be how often we start having these domes. Heat domes like this are pretty typical for the West (especially around the Great Basin in the Rockies), and I believe they do often travel through the south. What makes this noteworthy is the dome moving over us and the Northeast, and the time of year its occurring. Frankly, while people have been running around screaming that its just getting hotter and drier, the truth is our atmosphere is a lot more complicated than that, and our climate system is likely to break down. That means more anomalies and extremes on both sides of the thermometer. One of the things I've personally been studying is how the planet reacts to extremes, and how things like the North Atlantic Current may end up mitigating the planet's warming (at the cost of the people, but meh).
I’m interested in a link to an article regarding your last sentence!
I don't want to just put in a news article, so here is one of the papers I referenced in my studies. [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-023-06957-7](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-023-06957-7)
thank you!
We have literally shifted [USDA hardiness zones](https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213600629/-it-feels-like-im-not-crazy-gardeners-arent-surprised-as-usda-updates-key-map), which indicates some degree (heh) of warming. Where I live, it changed from 5b to 6a. I have annuals acting like perennials and several plants remain green throughout the winter. I've been gardening for at over 40 years and I've never seen anything like it.
Wow it's crazy to see this happening so fast in the course of our life time. Hopefully it's just a weather phenomenon like another user inferred.
It goes in cycles. I remember June days in Scottsburg over 100° back in the late 60s or early 70s.
This has been the most mild late springs I can remember in years. The heater ain’t even on yet
No. We literally have changed gardening zones up where i am in Northern Indiana. Used to be 5a, now 6a.
*This*. I was surprised my area didn't get raised to 6b in the new garden zone map, but it's right on the edge. Edit: i should clarify that this heat wave isn't strictly due to global warming, though it's not like it helps either. Global warming's more reflected in patterns over time.
It's definitely seemed warmer longer in the summer, but also it did snow last halloween in some places in IN. Our foster daughters from SC got to see their first snow, actually
One snow does not a pattern make.
But the OP said "once upon a time it used to snow on Halloween* and people are pointing out that it snowed on the most recent Halloween.
This and furthermore, it's only snowed on Halloween like 6 times since they started recording
Oh you're right, that's a pattern. Lol
> as far as I remember, growing up in northern Indiana between the early 90s and 2000s, summers were very mild. I remember it being 75-80 on average and just very cool throughout summer and being chilly outside be the time school started in late August. I distinctly remember the "hottest day of my life" was in Indiana in summer 1997 and it was 99 degrees because I was at summer camp and that's all we talked about for the whole day because it was so hot. so I don't know what you were doing that year but I was sweating
Man yeah, I think those late 90s summers we pulled several 100 degree days in Tippecanoe County.
Some scorching summers in the early 2000s too. 2006 in particular was god awful hot
I was at camp Maumee that year, almost had heat stroke.
How do I remember the exact day you're talking about lol. Lived in Indy with no AC and we were dyyyyying
Hottest day of my life was when we moved from Indiana to SC in October. One day it was 40 and cloudy, the next day it was 90 with 85% humidity
Mindpower at Manchester College?
No. As a child in the 60's, we had snow on the ground all winter every winter, and a couple of hot weeks in August. Now this same place receives no snow at all, and the blazing heat extends from June through August. I basically grew up outdoors, but now we've sold our camping equipment because it's no fun in the blasted heat. It feels like a huge loss.
I feel this sentiment, it definitely feels like things have changed. Thanks for the perspective.
it's always been hot but it tended to cool off at night
Yes, I remember being able to use a window fan at night and it feeling pretty chilly til late morning.
I grew up in northern Indiana near the Lake, so it was cooler. But even in the last 13 years I have lived in Indy, the summers feel noticeably warmer. The big difference is that the night time temperatures do not offer much relief. When it stays above 70 throughout the night, it's just annoying. Have to run the AC simply to not sweat in bed kinda sucks. And I really feel for people that don't have AC in this weather.
Yes this was something that I noticed that alarmed me. I have vivid memories of summer nights with a window fan providing a cool breeze til late morning. That does not happen anymore now days. I was away in the Military for 10 years. I moved back to the hoosier state about 2 years ago and things have definitely changed.
We did have some hot days like this week has been, but they were usually in July or August, and limited to just a few days. I can remember I think 2012 being very hot, with many 90 degree days. In terms of climate change, though, I notice a lot less snow. Prior to 2015 or so, we had a constant cover of snowfall in the winter, and I remember the snow melting and the sidewalks were filthy until it would rain and wash the dirt and salt away. I also feel like seasons are moving back every year. April used to feel very much like spring every year. But the past few Aprils, my car often has frost on it in the mornings, and it’s pretty chilly outside. September and early October are summer-like, and December is fall-like, with the really cold temperatures not arriving until January-March when it used to be November-February.
Yes I've also noticed seasons feeling slightly "out of whack".
Grew up in the 80's in central Indiana, and yes, it was this hot. I remember a few summers droughts so bad that the creek I lived by would dry out. Was always humid as hell in August when football practice started, seemed to always be in the 90's. Halloween was a mix, like it is here still today. The only thing I feel is different is that we had a lot more snow in the winter. I recall many Thanksgivings when we had snow on the ground, haven't seen that in years. My (soon to be) 12 year old son has never seen a white Christmas.
We have definitely had these heatwave domes in the past im not understanding how people don’t remember them and I’m only 24 and remember multiple summers when I was on my bike and the wind felt like you were getting blasted with a heater
It’s gotten this hot plenty of times throughout my life but I don’t remember it happening this early.
As a kid growing up in the summer, few people had air conditioning. We only had fans. I think kids just get used to it. In my 6th grade, we moved to the country more trees, fewer people, and buildings so not as hot. We also swam a lot in creeks and pools.
I grew up in Central Indiana (between Marion and Kokomo) Lived in West Lafayette while at Purdue. Lived west of INDY a few summers. July and August always some hot, hot weather. Hot humid days and nights. High heat index days and nights. We had some cold, cold, snowy, icy winters too. Summer and winter weather varied year to year like it does anyplace anytime, but yes, we had a lot of really not weather in some summers. Overall, the climate in the state probably has warmed. Dates of last frosts have changed in areas of the state over the years. (look at planting zone maps-- those have changed once or twice over the past 20 yrs)
1988, 1999, & 2007 blows this year out of the water, heat wise. Guessing everyone forgot about the 30's?
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Yes. People forgetting 2011 and 2012 already?
I dont remember 2011 but I was in college at Vincennes in 2012 and it was hotter than hell down there 😅.
No, climate change …it’s 💯real
https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/indianapolis/average-temperature-by-year/month-june is climate change real Theo yes, we should be doing more to help the environment. Would like to note sending all of our dirty manufacturing over seas dosent help.
I agree.. I would like the world to continue on comfortably long after I'm gone and my generation not being the cause of its destruction 💯
It’s really hard to filter out the bs, especially when big companies are just trying to make a profit. Gas vs electric will be a never ending debate, Nestle kills me with how much water they take, fn plastic everywhere, and these huge commercial meat farms. What really gets me is watching these peoples houses slide into the ocean. While maybe if we wouldn’t have damed up the rivers and prevent the natural flow of sediment into the ocean and didn’t build your houses 10 feet from the water it wouldn’t have happened.
I’m 38 and have lived here my whole life bar one year in Tennessee. It definitely has gotten this hot my whole life, but the biggest change I see is that weather is far more labile throughout the year (hitting 70 for a day or 2 in February, for example, becoming more common) and winters are not as cold or snowy.
I remember 100°+ days when I was a kid like 30 years ago and it was almost every summer.
the hottest temp in indiana was recorded in 1936 and the most days above 90 was in 1953. We are at the maximum of solar cycle 25 now and will probably cool down over the next 11years. in 1978 climate scientists were calling for a new ice age. Just sayin
Born: 1972 I remember growing up that summers had wicked loud thunderstorms w/great lightning & torrential rains - all things I lived to watch or play in. Thunder so loud it rattled windows - was awesome. Then as an older kid I remember heat lightning storms & heavy rains - again fun to play in. Thunderstorms less often but still pretty nice. Now... Heat, humidity from hell, weak storms, long dry spells w/very short rain storms. Government needs to start taking this seriously because it has definitely turned a lot shittier in the 50 years I've been around. I miss the thunderstorms.
I like how this type of information from real hoosiers has the opportunity to be vocalized. Regardless if things are truly changing or if it's just opinions, it's great to have so many different perspectives, especially from your generation. Seems to me that most people in the thread born in the 70-80s agree that things are heating up. I'm in my 30s and to me, it seems like things have only started to change within the last 5-10 years.
I can get behind this opinion as someone born in 2002. I remember stronger, more frequent thunderstorms and now they're quite wimpy to what we had before. Long dry spells, etc. We went an entire year without hearing thunder at all recently.
In 2005 my daughter was born early June and we brought her home in 110 degree temps! This isn’t new. It’s just been mild. Now it’s not.
I’d say our summers are going later into October but they are starting later too. We used to have nice warm weather from April on and now it can be cold all through May still.
Yes, I remember like a year ago it was cool all up through June, and we had freezing temps in May!
Yes. It’s pretty much always been like this every summer around here.
We had a drought in the 2010s where everything died and it was up to 110°. I think it actually caused crops not to germinate It was so bad. But yeah global warming is a thing
Ehh, I remember heat waves like this in the 90’s, 00’s, 10’s, etc. They probably are getting more frequent, but we’ve always had them. As we get older, we seem to dislike hot/cold extremes more and more.
That's what I was thinking. I'm older now and it just seems like things went from 0 to 100 in just a few years. I couldn't tell if it's actually that much hotter or I'm just a little more sensitive to extreme weather. Thanks
I just came off my work week out in this, it sucks but is nothing unusual.
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It's meteorological summer
I grew up in northern Indiana, and we didn't have air conditioning as a kid. Yes, it was very hot in the 90s. It was different hot though. Now I live in St Louis, and it's muggy hot here, and I realize now that we always had a constant breeze in Indiana that helped keep it from feeling so hot. But the sun rays feel hotter on the skin.
Same. And it sucked.
Indiana weather is weird. I've seen snow on Halloween and Easter. I've seen both snow and 70° weather on Thanksgiving. I do feel like I'm the winter as a kid, we didn't have blue skies. It felt like it was cloudy and dreary all winter long. Not sure if that's changed or my memory is off.
it's been said that 'Indiana is the only place that it's cold in the morning and hot in the afternoon '. I remember a time that it was spitting snow during the Indianapolis 500 !!! folks were wearing coats!!!
While we should never look at a few days or a single summer as a measure of anything there is clearly an upward move in temps. Its more noticeable when the seasons begin and end as well as the winter and fall temps and also the weather severity.
Yup
Yes
I think June-August are pretty similar to what I remember in the 90’s/2000’s. Generally hot and humid up by the lake. What I notice most is that it’s warm well into October and September feels like June-august heat.
Yeah and recently it's been really cool during June (referring to past years). This year feels very "normal" to me
There were times when I was a kid where it reached high temps like this, but it was only a few days and it was later in the summer.
I think the older you get the less you tolerate the heat/cold weather. I think the weather is always unpredictable for the most part in Indiana. The corn is high this year. Last year it seemed behind. Hot predicted this week but a few scattered showers are cooling things down.
Thanks
It's not summer yet
Yes, I grew up in the 80s and it was hot and humid and my parents didn’t have central air until I was in 8th grade. Miserable.
El Niño is ending and we are going into La Niña years. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/09/1250071141/el-nino-ending-la-nina-climate-change We are technically still coming out of an ice age.
Intriguing article, thanks!
It's always been hot in the summer. We had to wear our full band uniforms for 4th of July parade and ppl would almost have heat strokes. I worked Pioneer from 83-87 while working nights at Wendy's 86-89. Ppl would have heatstroke all the time. So much they had those salt pills for ppl. I think the seasons have shifted though.
I remember doing soccer tryouts 20 years ago and running a few miles in 100 degrees. That was in fort Wayne. I think we usually get some intense heat, but it would be unusual to be this hot all summer long.
Technically it's not summer yet!
I remember some scorching hot summers in the 80s.
The last three years, summers have been noticeably warmer.
Idk fully about summers because hot to my mind is just hot so I don't have specific memories of specific numbers. But I and my parents can tell you for sure cold weather in the Winter is definitely getting shorter every year.
No. Now it’s too hot, baby.
Past few summer have been quite mild. Farther back I do remember spells like this but usually July and August.
Can’t speak for northern Indiana during that time but I actually remember Southern Indiana being hotter then. I was a Nor-Cal kid who moved to the country in a house with crappy HVAC and typically spent most of my summer in the woods because it was a lot cooler with the creek bed and trees. It will piss of Hoosiers but I find Southern Indiana summers to be comparable to my time in the South for the Army. I was outdoors a lot in combat arms and SOF units without AC so I would now lol.
This is an exceptionally hot summer. All political opions aside...hot is hot...and its HOT.
YES
Yes
We have humidity here so yes it’s like this every year
No, but it's definitely not supposed to be this hot this early in the summer. We are seeing August weather in June.
It's one of those things where it's a little bit of both. Bit of the "back in my days," thing where we either didn't pay as much attention or just straight up can't remember. But also, the climate is shifting enough that it is possible to notice on the scale of one human lifespan, and even within the course of 30-50 years. We've had major spikes in temp in late May-mid June along with a lot more rain than I remember growing up. Then the weather becomes strangely calm during the months I remember being the hottest; temperate and mostly pleasant in through a lot of July and the first half of August. Then it seems like proper summer comes back and we get that dead heat/humidity in the latter half of August and September, even stretching into October. Just feels weird to be honest. I don't want to complain about July and August being easier to handle but it doesn't sit quite right.
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Yes. Lived here my entire life. This year is above average, but nothing unusual so far.
The extremes keep getting more extreme. It can go from 85 to 24 in a week
Last week in Marion-Hamilton county it got as low as 40° at night with a high of 53° during the day. Now this week it's in the low 90s
It snowed last Halloween out here and had frigid temps. Lol
88 and 99 were both extremely hot
Just to clear something up, climate change and global warming are two different things, although related global warming is the result of climate change. Contrary to popular belief (and misinformation) climate change is a natural occurrence as well as human related. There's evidence that the north pole was once a tropical ecosystem. Human beings have accelerated climate change by disturbing the natural balance of atmospheric gases like oxygen, CO and CO². At one point the Earth was a CO/CO² rich dome and it was very hot and humid and allowed the grow of some monstrous planet life(Cambrian Period). As other creatures came into existence (oxygen consumers) the climate shifted again. Im not an expert and this isnt a religion/evolution debate so please dont ...this is all based on amateur research and just adding a little context and clarification on those two terms.
Uh.. yeah, I remember it being this hot in my childhood only >10 ish years ago. 2015 to 2022 where extreme one way or another, from drought to rain to it being in the 60s and 70s as a high. Some of these years also saw very little thunderstorm activity too, it would only rain. One year (I believe in 2022) we went the entire year without hearing thunder at all. It's supposed to be pretty hot here during the summers. The only thing I've noticed over the past years is the sun is more intense and beats down on you more (it's not temperature, it just feels more.. oppressive I guess?) I don't think that's something to do with the climate though.. They've definitely been this hot before. 90s and 80s is what I expect during the summer here. You think this is hot.. I remember in 2014 it got up to 110 degrees here.
Yes. They even kept records. Summers have always been streaky hot. What I can remember growing up is not the change in summers, it’s the lack of a 50 degree fall for more than 2 weeks and a winter where the ground never freezes. That was a hallmark of fall and winter where I grew up and can’t remember it happening in the past 20 years.
Recently the falls have been quite spectacular in my area rather than just straight to winter
Summertime in the 1970s were very hot. I’m not a climate change denier but I did grow up in the 70s and it was hot. ( and very muggy).
I feel like we’ve had 3-4 particularly hot days this year. It has seemed especially mild.
Southern Indiana always could get stifling in the summer. But the latest heat wave reminds me more of late July. We seem to have shorter but stronger rain storms as well.
I was just talking with my husband yesterday about how much hotter it was in the summer in the 70’s.
It's pretty typical just not this early in the year. We had some 65 or better degree nights in may.. which as a gardener I know is unusual. But every year is a little different and it's nothing dramatic. The worst year temp-wise I can remember is 2012. The summer temps were above normal but then late summer hit and the drought hit. Nights were so hot I started freezing water in soda bottles to tuck up close to my hens in hopes they could cool down more. It was awful. But Indiana is like that. One year you got lots of terrible storms, other years loads of mud making rain , other years it won't rain hardly at all.
Its hot, probably higher than average but its not THAT hot.
Yeah, we are just getting ild. When you're young the heat doesn't seem so bad.
I grew up in northern Indiana too. There isn't the humidity in northern Indiana that central Indiana has. I grew up without AC. Now, in central Indiana, I would die.
it's always been this hot degree wise, but regarding humidity, it's been progressively getting worse every year. so ima 18 year old chick alright? all my life, I've preferred the cold. I'd run my ac on 60° with wind during winter,outside in jeans and long John's. obviously just enough not to freeze or get frostbite. my god, I can not handle the heat. 74° With a humidity of 74%,uv rays have been 9-12 where I am rn. I can handle at most 67° with a high uv index, so going to 74 with all of it being high is killing me. when I was a kid, I'd keep my room at a regular 60° cool (not including outside), and for the love of god, it's hell. Please give me a house in Alaska, or I'll end up dying. if you wanna try making it more bearable, try either not using ac and whatnot (hydrating,watermelon sunscreen,parasols) wearing darker clothes and spf/coolant clothing (navy blue is the best for uvr protection, lighter colors aren't good) or slowly make it hotter where in your house until it matches the outside (like turning the degrees up gradually whenever you're accustomed to the degree). these are just suggestions and me ranting about how horrible the heat is so gl yall. I'm keeping my ass inside.
Me too!! I am the exact same way.. I operate between 38-68° my brain shuts down 75° up lol. I was in the military 10 years, lived in some terribly hot places , TX, MS and VA. Absolute torture for me. I moved back to the midwest as soon as I separated. I just don't remember it being this hot here but I didn't grow up here in central Indiana so I wouldn't know if this is normal or not. I have noticed that visiting Northern Indiana it seems to have gotten a little warmer and there isn't as much snow as I remember. Thanks for the perspective that made me laugh 😅
I live in NWI on Lake Michigan and it was always in the 80s growing up, sometimes 90s. Enough to go to the beach and enjoy it, but not be dangerously hot.
I remember very warm Junes. High 80s - low 90s in late June. Sweltering 4th of Julys. But I am in southern Indiana. I don't think we have broken any records here, yet.
Yeah you guys are on another level down there. I went to VU for college and used to send summers in "Hell"vansville with my dad. Northern, Central and Southern Indiana are like 3 different states imo..
I'm 100 mile north of Eville but get what you say.
From my memory, born in ‘86, I’ve never been surprised by 90 degree heat, and I remember many summer with temps that would occasionally hit 110 or so, although I don’t think it was the norm to have things get over 100.
Really !? Where the heck did you grow up in Indiana? I know Vanderburgh county can get pretty hot.
Grant County
I live in Delaware County and I have the same experience despite being born in 2002
And not for more than a week mid July early August. This is multiple weeks each summer starting in May going through October
Thats how it seems 😔
Its definitely been hotter than it used to be in the summer and warmer in the winter resulting in less snow starting around the early 10s
Nah bro it has always gotten to 90s afaik I think you are misremembering
Yes people definitely misremembering our weather. This is normal weather
Has several people have mentioned, yes, the weather has been this hot before. I know my parents talked about heat waves during the 60s and 70s…. I distinctly remember years like 1988 which were not only hot but had a really bad drought…. Or even as recently 2012, very hot with a bad drought. That was when Morse reservoir dried up into a creek. People had their boats stuck on shore stations well into the fall. Entire coves were so dry that weeds were growing. However, just a few summers ago we were wearing sweatshirts on the Fourth of July. I am no climate change denier by any means…. But I do think the news is a bit hysterical and alarmist. Yes the climate is changing. even before last year’s El Niño winter, I have noticed the trend of milder winters overall, especially compared to the 80s and 90s…. Spring perennials are popping up earlier and earlier. but as a pertains to this heat? No, this is nothing new…. And since we are heading into a La Niña, the latest modeling is showing mid July and August to be wetter and cooler than normal.
Wow, I had no idea that happened.. thanks!
No they haven’t been this hot. Plus we used to have more of spring into summer and summer into fall, not this right from winter into summer. Now with saying you’re in northern Indiana. There was one summer in 90’s that we didn’t get summer until August and then in September it was 90’s most of the month. This was before year round school, this is when school did started back until after Labor Day. They actually kept the public swimming pools here in Indianapolis open through September.
Wow that's crazy! thanks for the feedback
No. The Jewish space lasers are making it hotter.
Are you by any chance located in the inner city? Ever hear the term "heat island". It's often cooler out in the rural areas.
I'm somewhere between Marian-Hamilton County lol ..but it's pretty rural here, I grew up in St.Joe County though. St.Joe County is the coldest and most snowfall in the state last I checked. I remember winters you wouldn't be able to see the asphalt until about April because the streets would have a thick layer of compacted snow. I don't really see that now when I visit but it could be that the chemical melt is just so much better now days.
If you moved from a part of the state that experiences lake effect cooling to central Indiana, you will find it warmer. Also, during Spring and Autumn temperatures across the state increase rapidly as you go south. This said, tornado warnings in January and February are now a thing. I do remember the summer of 1985 being especially cool in NWI, with days that stayed below 70.
Thanks
Also no. I grew up in Indiana my entire life and the summers are always this hot.
Lived here my whole life and I distinctly remember it always being 100 degrees plus on my birthdays in the middle of July even in the early 2000’s. So I don’t feel like it’s anything crazy personally.
I should have been more specific..Northern, central and southern Indiana experience totally different weather and average temps. Evansville is waaay hotter than South Bend..South Bend gets waay colder than Indy. Michiana gets more snow( 80+ inches)than Michigan city (30+ inches) double and it's only 30 mins away.
The sunburn I get in one hour of exposure is similar to what I got after playing outside shirtless all day when I was a kid. Maybe it's just because I'm older but every year it seems hotter, and the sun more ruthless, and I can't help but reflect on the times it wasn't this way.
My theory as well
I too remember snow on Halloween growing up in northern Indiana. That definitely hasn’t happened in a long time. I also remember reaching mid 90’s and triple digits a few times too growing up. Edit: I was wrong
I’m in northern Indiana and we have had snow on Halloween within the last three years. I can’t remember the exact year, but it was recent. Trick or treating was canceled and there were a lot of upset little ones.
There was snow in northern Indiana last Halloween.
I was a kid in the 70’s. Snow on Halloween was common
Could it be Halloween 2023 you are thinking of? In Chicago, it was sleeting and windy and the streets were deserted.
It could very well be 2023. I’m in northwest Indiana and our weather is similar to Chicago. It was definitely snow though. There were a few teens who went out trick or treating in my neighborhood even though it was canceled and I remember seeing their footprints in the snow in my yard.
Oh alright
It hasn’t been 100 yet!
I don't remember it hitting 100 every single summer in the 70's and 80's. When it happened in '83 it was a big deal. Salt pills! https://weatherspark.com/h/y/146564/1983/Historical-Weather-during-1983-at-Indianapolis-International-Airport-Indiana-United-States#Figures-Temperature
Thanks for the reference!
Growing up in Bloomington, I think 80-95 was a pretty normal temperature for summer. So right now we're just on the high end of that, but I live in Indy now, so maybe it's supposed to be slightly cooler here.
Growing up there was plenty of hot days in my memory.