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25 JANUARY 1897 · 20 JANUARY 1943 · THE VALLEY'S WEATHER OF RECORD
The numbers: Mishawaka keeps no weather book of its own; the valley's record is the South Bend station's, kept since 1893, and its strangest entry is a tie that has stood for more than eighty years. The National Weather Service's annual climate summary for the station gives the all-time low as −22 degrees — reached twice, on 25 January 1897 and again on 20 January 1943, and never since beaten. The same table gives the all-time high as 109 degrees, 24 July 1934, a Dust Bowl mark that has likewise never been matched; the wettest year 55.61 inches in 1990, the driest 25.15 in 1963; and the snowfall record as 141.7 inches in the year 1978 — the Blizzard of '78's winter, a season total no year before or since has approached. The figures are the station's, and the station stands in South Bend; they are printed here at valley size, as the weather of record for the ground Mishawaka shares, with the boundary stated rather than smoothed. The shape is the oddity: a cold record set in the nineteenth century, tied in the twentieth, and a snow record set in a single famous winter — the extremes of this climate are old, and they are standing.
Sources: National Weather Service, Northern Indiana — the South Bend annual Climatological Report (record period 1893–2025): record high 109°F, 24 July 1934; record low −22°F, 20 January 1943 and 25 January 1897; record annual precipitation 55.61 in (1990) and minimum 25.15 in (1963); record annual snowfall 141.7 in (1978).