Category: 7-Day Outlook
Highlights:
- Warmth builds
- Storms chances (finally) return
- Rinse and repeat
Summer Isn’t Finished Yet…We may be inching ever so much closer to the official start of autumn (next Friday), but don’t tell Mother Nature that. After an unusually cool close to August and open to September, we’re set to make up for lost time over the next couple of weeks. Heat will build and expand across the Mid West this weekend and that will set the tone for the upcoming forecast period.
Weather conditions should remain dry to kick off the weekend (great day for the Whitestown Brewfest, by the way), but moisture will return for the second half of the weekend. Combine the increasing moisture with enough lift and widely scattered thunderstorms will fire Sunday. Overall coverage won’t be particularly impressive, but will be a harbinger of things to come as the new week unfolds. A couple of surface fronts will push up against the strong ridge in place as we progress through the work week. While these will “wash out” over the Ohio Valley, they’ll be sufficient enough to provide scattered-to-numerous showers and thunderstorms next week. Our parched soils will take anything they can get!
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: 0.00″
- Rainfall: 0.50″ – 1.00″
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Highlights:
- Showers and breezy conditions thanks to what’s left of Irma
- Sunshine returns
- Warmth builds
Irma’s Remnants…What’s left of Irma will begin to impact the state today. As promised, this won’t be a big deal, locally. We’ll notice scattered to numerous showers lifting north through the day, continuing Wednesday. Greatest overall rainfall coverage across central parts of the state should occur tonight into Wednesday. We’ll also note east and northeast winds gusting over 20 MPH at times. All in all, not a big weather event in the least for our region and our thoughts and prayers remain with our neighbors to our south beginning clean up/ rebuilding efforts.
High pressure will return as we wrap up the work week and move into the weekend. Additionally, a southerly air flow will help pump unseasonably warm conditions northward to encompass the Ohio Valley and Mid West. Our next weather maker will be a cold front that will make a run at the region Monday. Early indications are this front will “wash out” as it nears the region with only a few showers/ embedded thunder expected.
Looking ahead, much more active times loom as we progress through late September and open October…
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: 0.00″
- Rainfall: 0.25″ – 0.50″
Permanent link to this article: https://indywx.com/irmas-remnants-limp-into-the-region-warming-up-this-weekend/
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September 11, 2017
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Permanent link to this article: https://indywx.com/video-hurricane-irma-and-warmer-times-loom/
Highlights:
- Plentiful sunshine
- Unseasonably cool
- Watching Irma
High Pressure Dominates…There’s no reason to get “wordy” with the short-term forecast, as high pressure will dominate our region. This will result in plentiful sunshine, low humidity, and unseasonably cool, refreshing temperatures. Find time to spend the weekend outside!
All eyes will most certainly be on dangerous Hurricane Irma as she begins to impact the Florida peninsula as early as Saturday. Our thoughts and prayers are with all in Irma’s path, including interior portions of the southeast that will also deal with hurricane conditions late in the weekend into early next week. Here on the home front, we still only expect minimal impacts from Irma. We’ll notice an increasingly gusty easterly breeze late Monday into Tuesday. Additionally, showers are possible (especially across the southern half of the state) Tuesday.
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: 0.00″
- Rainfall: 0.10″ – 0.25″
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Highlights:
- Unseasonably cool weather continues
- All eyes on Irma
- Impacts TBD, locally
Unseasonably Cool; Irma Dominates Headlines…Upper level energy did, indeed, spark a couple of showers (even some small hail was reported in stronger showers) Wednesday evening. Here at IndyWx.com HQ, we picked up a quick half inch of much needed rainfall! While a couple of showers are possible once again this afternoon, these will be primarily confined to northern portions of the state. Otherwise, the balance of the upcoming forecast period is easy through the weekend: dry with reinforcing cool air arriving over the weekend.
Hurricane Irma will continue to dominate the headlines and will require our focus, locally, for potential impacts early next week. While we’ve built rain into our forecast Tuesday into Wednesday, it’s crucial to note this is an incredibly tough forecast and will require a great deal of fine tuning as we move forward. With that said, a blend of latest data and upper air analysis does suggest portions of the region (particularly eastern areas of the state) do stand a chance to get in on the action of Irma’s remnants Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday morning. Otherwise, breezy easterly winds are expected for the entire region beginning Monday evening. Stay tuned as we continue to analyze things. Thoughts and prayers are certainly with residents and family along the Southeast coast from southern FL to the Carolinas, including the southern Appalachian region. Speaking of, it should be noted Irma’s impacts will stretch well inland. Irma is forecast to remain a major hurricane wherever she comes ashore (window of opportunity for landfall up from the southern tip of FL all the way up to the Carolina coastline) and her forward speed into the southern Appalachians will combine with the rugged terrain and high elevations to create significant problems inland given the most up-to-date forecast track.
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: 0.00″
- Rainfall: 0.50″ – 1.00″ (highly dependent on where Irma’s remnants track)
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