Category: 7-Day Outlook

Highlights:

• Wet close to the week
• Rain to snow Saturday night into early Sunday
• One-two punch of arctic air
• Snow squalls Tuesday

Wet Close To The Week; Winter Blows In To Town…The region will deal with two storm systems as we go through the next few days.  Today’s area of low pressure will be responsible for pushing rain showers through the state and while it won’t rain the entire day, it’ll be wise to keep the rain gear nearby.

A secondary area of low pressure will lift northeast Saturday into Saturday night.  Heavier rains will arrive into central IN Saturday afternoon and the precise track of this second area of low pressure is key in determining the transition from rain to snow as cold air arrives on the scene.  As of now, we’ll focus on a changeover overnight Saturday night/ Sunday morning.  Initial thinking paints a 1″-3″ swath across central IN, but before issuing our first snowfall map, we want to have an opportunity to see the complete 12z model suite.

Regardless of how much snow falls Sunday morning, expect a much colder feel and strong and gusty winds as we go through the second half of the weekend.  Arctic reinforcements arrive Tuesday and we’ll know it.  Expect snow squalls and bitterly cold air for mid week.

Looking ahead, busy times continue down the road.  An early look at next weekend shows a pattern plenty capable for renewed wintry “fun and games…”

Highlights:

• Increasing clouds; snow showers tonight
• Calmer mid week
• Next storm delivers rain late week
• Significant cold outbreak looms

Cold Shot On Deck; Snow Showers To Develop…Our Sunday is dawning with sunshine across central IN, but we note a low cloud deck sinking south and this will engulf all of the region by afternoon.  Snow showers will begin to fall across the area by tonight and continue into Monday, and this is showing up well on our high resolution forecast radar, courtesy of Weatherbell.com.

We note the best chances of snow showers will favor the eastern half of the state as lake moisture gets involved.  Speaking of that, accumulations of a dusting to an inch will be possible across east-central IN with higher amounts north in the snow belt (3-6″ amounts with a Lake Effect Snow Advisory in effect).  You may want to leave extra travel time for your Monday morning commute.

Our mid week stretch will be dominated by a quiet couple of days as high pressure shifts east and we get into a return (milder) SW flow.

Source: Tropicaltidbits.com

Our next storm system approaches late week and will result in increasing cloudiness and showers developing by Friday, continuing into Saturday.

All eyes will then remain locked in on the 11th-13th time frame for potential wintry “mischief.”  There remain many more questions than answers concerning winter storm potential, but confidence continues to increase on a very cold blast of air around, or just before, mid month.  Stay tuned!

Highlights:

• Much needed vitamin D
• Arctic air and scattered snow showers to open the week
• Late week storm system
• Big cold looms

Bright, But Chilly…High pressure will remain in control of our weekend weather.  Though it’ll be chilly, it’s great to see the sun shining (it does still exist, after all :-))!

We’ll be on the outskirts of an arctic intrusion Monday afternoon-Tuesday morning.  The brunt of the arctic air (single digits) will flow into the Northeast.  That said, we’ll also note a cold open to the week.  Scattered snow showers will accompany the reinforcing cold, as forecast radar below shows- courtesy of weatherbell.com.

We’ll “relax” things a bit for mid week before we gear back up for a potentially active regime late week.  We’ll include showers in our forecast wrapping up the work week Friday.  You can read more here about our thoughts on next weekend.  Bottom line, it’s a low confidence forecast at this point.