You choose, we deliver
If you are interested in this story, you might be interested in others from The Journal Gazette. Go to www.journalgazette.net/newsletter and pick the subjects you care most about. We'll deliver your customized daily news report at 3 a.m. Fort Wayne time, right to your email.

Local

  • GE donates WWI memorial to city
    Veterans and city officials gathered Friday to rededicate the WWI Memorial moved to McCulloch Park, which has been on the fenced-in grounds of nearby General Electric for 89 years. The memorial was erected on Nov. 11, 1924, in honor of the 748 Fort
  • Parade features Stephen King, summer's best books
    Parade’s summer reading issue, distributed with this Sunday’s print edition of The Journal Gazette, features Stephen King.
  • Memorial Day weekend observances
    Memorial Day weekend observances in Fort Wayne, northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. Watchfire – Presented by the Allen County Council of Veterans; 9 p.m. Friday through 9 p.m.
Advertisement

The Week Ahead

Curtis Smith

Record warmth

Welcome to Indiana in …

You can fill in that blank with basically any month, but this time January is the proper way to finish a sentence that tells you all you need to know about our weather – it changes in huge ways, and it changes in a hurry.

The latest example came the past few days. Friday, we had a high of 57, setting a record for the date in Fort Wayne. Saturday was even warmer. Today, we will drop a good 20 degrees, and for the rest of the week temperatures will be at or below normal levels, and mid-January has the coldest “normals” of the entire year.

Weather wise: While a few record highs this month are in the 50s, most of them are in the 60s. Not one of them is in the 70s. The warmest January day we’ve ever seen in Fort Wayne was the 25th of 1950, with a high of 69.

Advertisement