![]() Many residents on the Indiana side of the border hoped a passing thundershower might cool off their day as well.Īs morning melted into afternoon, the heat grew. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette's small weather section that morning called for another warm day, as if anyone needed to be told, with "widely scattered thunderstorms in Ohio this evening". As a result, lawns were green and the corn was tall. That July would end up being the sixth wettest July on record, and although June had been dry, May 1943 was Fort Wayne's second wettest May on record. The Weather Bureau Airport Station in Fort Wayne reported one and a third inches of rain falling from the 6 th to the 7 th of July, and two more inches from the 16 th to the 17 th. Also, a good deal of rain had fallen on northeast Indiana over the first half of the warm season. Though it had been a warm month, it was not unusually oppressive for July, especially when compared with the searing heat Midwesterners suffered through several years earlier. Stepping out into the morning haze it was easy to tell that this was going to be another hot, humid Indiana summer day.the fourteenth day in a row that the mercury would top 80 degrees.might even make it up to 90 if there was enough sunshine. ![]() ![]() The atmosphere was w clung heavily to the blades of grass in people's green lawns. The sun rose into a partly cloudy sky on the 21 st day of July in 1943. ![]()
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