Thanksgiving Day weather stats and history

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Thanksgiving Day sits in a time interval during which we start to dig extra into chilly climate right here within the Hoosier state.

Nevertheless, this vacation can characteristic a little bit of selection weather-wise because it sits within the latter portion of fall. Let’s do a dive into latest Thanksgiving Day climate and the extremes it has seen.

The typical excessive temperature for this vacation has hovered within the mid 40s, and our common low has been within the low 30s. One attention-grabbing be aware to make is that Thanksgiving Day has by no means seen a 70° day, however it has actually come very shut with the report being 69° (1973). We’ve additionally had bitterly chilly Thanksgivings as properly with 1930 practically that includes sub-zero temperatures.

We additionally common one-tenth of an inch of rain and snowfall. It’s price noting that accumulating snow on this vacation is kind of uncommon. In truth, solely eight % of Thanksgivings since 1871 have seen measurable snow with TBD

There are a few different issues to notice as properly with Thanksgiving climate historical past. Since 2000, we’ve got solely had two days go above the 60° mark (2012, 2015), and there has solely been sooner or later that went beneath freezing (2014).

Since we’re in line for a gentle and partly sunny Thanksgiving this 12 months, evaluating this forecast to the previous 5 years with this vacation yielded some intriguing evaluation. Right here in Indy, we’ve sat close to to barely above regular within the temperature division except 2019. The previous three Thanksgivings have been gloomy, and final 12 months was the one occasion of measurable rain prior to now 5.

As an entire, Thanksgiving Day is mostly a cold and dry day.