I just found this awesome site to get past weather data:
This data was from the past month in our city of Evansville, Indiana:
All sorts of different informative information. For instance, it was a very windy month here!
Red lines below were peak gusts.
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It was also a very warm March with a few cold spells in between the warmth.
88 degrees on the 22nd was the warmest March day in Evansville history!
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By metmike - March 22, 2026, 12:45 p.m.
A tongue/chunk/slug of that record heat has been grabbed by the approaching weather system and transported from the Southwest to the Southern Plains and is now aimed at the Ohio Valley.
This will result in one HOT hot day in Evansville IN. We'll easily smash the daily record early in the afternoon and probably have the hottest day in March history. The current March record is 87 set on March 24, 1929. So it took 97 years to break it!
This is the current 850 mb map which is around 1 mile above the ground.
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Re: Re: Historic SW US March heatwave
By metmike - March 22, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
Great work, Larry!
You're ability to find relevant statistics in our conversations is unmatched by others!
Temps at 1pm below.
https://www.mesonet.org/weather/air-temperature/national-wind-chill-heat-index
At 2pm, we already obliterated the old record for the date. On Central DAYLIGHT time, our solar noon occurs at this location around 1:36 pm so we should be able to hit 90 degrees today and smash the old record because this temp was less than 30 minutes after solar noon!
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?x=290&y=91&site=pah&zmx=&zmy=&map_x=290&map_y=91
Wow! Look at this March heat expanding east at 2pm!! Feeling 60+ colder in the Upper Midwest!
New all time March high temperature for us at 88 degrees!!!
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Daily Climate Normals and Records - Evansville, IN
Record highs:
https://www.weather.gov/pah/EvansvilleDailyNormalsAndRecords
For our Summer/hottest 3 months, I counted 20 out of the 92 record highs the past 130 years in Evansville coming since 1990, which would be the 35 HOTTEST years for global temperatures.
In Evansville:
Last 35 years, 20 record highs JJA=1 record high every 1.8 years
Previous 95 years, 72 record highs JJA=1 record high every 1.3 years
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Look at the 60 degree contrast from south to north in the states of IL and IN right now, at 5pm!!!!
https://www.mesonet.org/weather/air-temperature/national-wind-chill-heat-index
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