SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Average lows for this time of the month are more similar to what we’re expecting through the rest of this week, in those mid to low-50s, but this weekend has been on the cooler side overall.
Some of us are getting close to that 40-degree mark, something that’s typically reserved for the middle of October. However chilly conditions this early in the year aren’t unheard of. In the past 50 years South Bend has hit the 40-degree mark in early September.
Usually that cool down is followed by a hot streak, last year, after a similarly cool stretch around this time, we popped back up into the 90s.
We are also still a little way out from even getting to the average 40-degree low, but over the past 50 years the average time we start to see some frost is typically in just about a month, Oct. 7.
With the fall-like feel we’ve been seeing, our neighbors to the north were feeling winter-like this weekend, with the first reported snowfall in the Upper Peninsula, and a frost advisory in place Monday morning in north central Michigan and Wisconsin.