March Weather at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field United States

Daily high temperatures increase by 12°F, from 47°F to 59°F, rarely falling below 32°F or exceeding 74°F.

Daily low temperatures increase by 10°F, from 30°F to 40°F, rarely falling below 17°F or exceeding 54°F.

For reference, on July 19, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field typically range from 67°F to 86°F, while on January 29, the coldest day of the year, they range from 22°F to 37°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on March. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

Conţeşti, Romania (5,330 miles away) and Osh, Kyrgyzstan (6,778 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field (view comparison).

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The month of March at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field experiences gradually decreasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy decreasing from 54% to 49%.

The clearest day of the month is March 31, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 51% of the time.

For reference, on December 27, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 57%, while on August 22, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 70%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field, the chance of a wet day over the course of March is very rapidly increasing, starting the month at 24% and ending it at 34%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 42% on June 25, and its lowest chance is 20% on January 28.

Over the course of March at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field, the chance of a day with only rain increases from 19% to 33%, the chance of a day with mixed snow and rain remains an essentially constant 1% throughout, and the chance of a day with only snow decreases from 3% to 0%.

Rainfall

To show variation within the month and not just the monthly total, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during March at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field is rapidly increasing, starting the month at 2.2 inches, when it rarely exceeds 4.4 inches or falls below 0.9 inches, and ending the month at 3.4 inches, when it rarely exceeds 5.1 inches or falls below 1.7 inches.

Snowfall

As with rainfall, we consider the snowfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day snowfall during March at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field is decreasing, starting the month at 2.1 inches, when it rarely exceeds 6.5 inches, and ending the month at 0.5 inches, when it rarely exceeds 1.5 inches.

Over the course of March at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field, the length of the day is rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day increases by 1 hour, 18 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 2 minutes, 35 seconds, and weekly increase of 18 minutes, 7 seconds.

The shortest day of the month is March 1, with 11 hours, 21 minutes of daylight and the longest day is March 31, with 12 hours, 39 minutes of daylight.

The earliest sunrise of the month at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field is 7:09 AM on March 9 and the latest sunrise is 58 minutes later at 8:07 AM on March 10.

The earliest sunset is 6:42 PM on March 1 and the latest sunset is 1 hour, 31 minutes later at 8:12 PM on March 31.

Daylight saving time (DST) ends at 3:00 AM on March 10, 2024, shifting sunrise and sunset to be an hour earlier.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 6:22 AM and sets 14 hours, 57 minutes later, at 9:19 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 8:06 AM and sets 9 hours, 23 minutes later, at 5:29 PM.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for March 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field is essentially constant during March, remaining around 0% throughout.

For reference, on July 21, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 62% of the time, while on January 1, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time.

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field is essentially constant during March, remaining within 0.2 miles per hour of 11.4 miles per hour throughout.

For reference, on March 31, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 11.5 miles per hour, while on July 30, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 6.5 miles per hour.

The highest daily average wind speed during March is 11.5 miles per hour on March 31.

The hourly average wind direction at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field throughout March is predominantly from the south, with a peak proportion of 29% on March 19.

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).

The growing season at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field typically lasts for 6.2 months (190 days), from around April 11 to around October 17, rarely starting before March 25 or after April 28, and rarely ending before September 28 or after November 5.

The month of March at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field is more likely than not fully outside of the growing season, with the chance that a given day is in the growing season rapidly increasing from 0% to 21% over the course of the month.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F.

The average accumulated growing degree days at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field are gradually increasing during March, increasing by 81°F, from 27°F to 107°F, over the course of the month.

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy at Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field is increasing during March, rising by 1.2 kWh, from 3.7 kWh to 4.9 kWh, over the course of the month.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field are 39.451 deg latitude, -87.308 deg longitude, and 574 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field is essentially flat, with a maximum elevation change of 89 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 569 feet. Within 10 miles is essentially flat (282 feet). Within 50 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (636 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Terre Haute, Terre Haute International Airport - Hulman Field is covered by cropland (81%) and trees (14%), within 10 miles by cropland (52%) and trees (35%), and within 50 miles by cropland (70%) and trees (27%).