Category: 7-Day Outlook

Jan 14

01.14.21 Weather Bulletin: Wintry Conditions Return For The Weekend…

Updated: 01.14.21 @ 7:47a

One More Relatively Mild Day…A southwesterly air flow will combine with just enough early sun to help boost temperatures into the 40s for one more day. Enjoy as colder air arrives to close the week!

A cold front will pass through the state tonight. A broken band of showers will accompany the frontal passage later this evening. Light will be the key word (0.10″ or less). As colder air filters into central Indiana, scattered snow showers will develop by Friday morning.

Things begin to turn more interesting Friday afternoon as the upper level low pressure system drops south and individual spokes of energy ride into central Indiana. As this takes place, the combination of very cold air aloft and just enough instability (byproduct of daytime heating- yes even this time of year) will warrant conditions that should help heavier and more intense snow bursts (or squalls) develop. While we’re not talking about widespread heavy snow accumulation, these squalls will be intense enough to impact travel throughout the region when encountered. Please plan accordingly and give yourself extra drive time tomorrow afternoon/ evening if you have travel plans. Once the sun sets, the snow squall activity will quickly diminish in coverage and intensity.

Additional periods of light snow can be expected throughout the weekend as individual upper level disturbances cross through the area. At this time, Sunday appears to offer up the best chance of more widespread, organized light snow. We’ll also need to keep an eye to our northwest for one more trailing feature Monday PM into Tuesday (the “caboose,” if you will, in the seemingly unending weekend train of upper level disturbances).

By the middle part of next week, we’ll be able to catch our breath and await the potential of a bigger, moisture-laden storm system impacting the area late next week…

Make it a great Thursday! We’ll be back later this evening with an updated video discussion focused on the long range…

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Jan 09

01.09.21 Weather Bulletin: Unusually Quiet Times Continue…

Updated 01.09.21 @ 8:18a

Fighting For That Sun To Return…Skies cleared overnight across central Indiana and this allowed temperatures to dip into the middle 20s (still about 5° above normal for most). Unfortunately, clouds are once again increasing this morning and will remain with us through the day. We’ll still hold out hope for a few breaks in the cloud cover from time to time through the weekend, but we can expect mostly cloudy conditions to persist.

Looking ahead, there’s really no reason to waste a lot of pixels on the forecast as quiet times remain. Our best opportunity to see more significant sunshine will likely come Tuesday. We’ll then eye a cold front that will pass through central Indiana as we close the work week. Gusty westerly to southwesterly winds can be expected ahead of this front Thursday. This will be a moisture starved system, but we could squeeze out a few scattered snow showers Friday.

Enjoy your Saturday. We’ll be back later this afternoon with a fresh Client Video update.

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Jan 06

01.06.21 Weather Bulletin: Watching The Southern Parade Of Storms…

All The Excitement Is South (For Now)…We’ll be “sitting on the sideline” through the upcoming 7-day forecast period as we watch two or three storm systems track through the Deep South. The first of these storms will drop an accumulating snow event for Southern Appalachia Thursday evening and Friday. Meanwhile, we’ll remain quiet back here on the home front with mostly cloudy to cloudy skies. The only other item of note will be an increasingly stiff northeast breeze during this time period (gusts of 10 to 20 MPH).

“Dirty” high pressure will keep our region dry early next week. Despite the extended dry period, we still anticipate dealing with a good deal of cloudiness (hence the labeling). We’ll watch another storm system organize well to our south to open the new work week. Low pressure will move from the northwestern Gulf of Mexico northeast- once again laying down a nice swath of snow for our friends in Southern Appalachia (as well as deeper into the south this next go around).

We still believe things here will start to get busier by the 2nd half of next week…

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Jan 03

01.03.21 Weather Bulletin: Snow Ends; Watching Mid – Late Week Next…

Temperatures Trend Colder Late Week…Upper level energy will scoot out of the region as quickly as it arrived and will take the snow with it. Look for snow to diminish from west to east through mid morning. Heaviest bands of the white stuff set up along and north of the I-70 corridor overnight. While the system tracked a tick further north than originally expected, northern portions of our 2”-4” zone should verify once all is said and done (please keep those reports coming). Southern portions (closer to the I-70 corridor) will bust on the low end. Improving weather conditions are dialed up through the 1st half of the new work week, including a return of the sun! (ENJOY)!

Our next system of note will arrive Thursday into early Friday. Operational guidance continues to struggle with handling of features beyond 3 days out (thanks in part to the maturing high latitude blocking pattern) and this feature will require our attention for the chance of a wintry mix of rain/ snow. Stay tuned as we fine tune!

Drier, colder weather is dialed up to head into next weekend. Enjoy the down time while you have it. A fairly active period of weather seems to loom on the horizon for mid and late month…

Thank you again for your patience with posts (along with video troubles) the past few days. We’ll be settled back into the home office Monday and will resume “regularly scheduled” programming at that time.

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Jan 01

01.01.21 Weather Bulletin: Prospects Of Accumulating Snow Increasing Tomorrow Night…

Freezing Rain Changes To Rain; Accumulating Snow Tomorrow Night? Low pressure will track into the eastern Great Lakes tonight. Temperatures will slowly rise through the day, allowing freezing rain to transition to rain. Slick roads this morning will slowly improve through the afternoon.

Attention will then shift to a trailing piece of upper level energy Saturday night and Sunday morning. While thermal profiles are marginal at best, the track and strength of the upper level energy will lead to the potential of accumulating wet snow Saturday night and Sunday morning. These are the kind of systems that can manufacture their own cold and result in “surprise” snow events for some. As things stand now, we expect a band of accumulating snow to develop across central Indiana into western Ohio tomorrow night and Sunday morning. We’ll keep a close eye on data the rest of the day and update later this evening.

Weak high pressure will nose into the region as we kick off the new work week, allowing sunshine to return.

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