Category: Arctic Cold

Snow Showers Arrive Tonight…

Screen Shot 2016-01-03 at 9.45.06 AMHighlights:

  • 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.

MondayAMWe 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

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!

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Overwhelming Evidence On Mid Month Cold…

The step-down cold pattern early January is ongoing, but we’ve been clear with our thinking of even colder air invading around mid month (Jan 10th-20th time period). We wanted to…

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Cold, But Much Needed Sunshine…

Screen Shot 2016-01-02 at 9.49.21 AMHighlights:

  • 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.mondayAM

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.Jan112016

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Storm Brewing, But Questions Abound…

In the transition period from the “step down” cold pattern that we’re in now and the more sustained cold that looms for the second half of the month, we’re going…

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Winter Delayed, Not Denied: Updated Canadian; MJO

We’ll talk later today about the upcoming winter storm threat next weekend. While nothing is set in stone at this juncture, the pattern is aligning in a fashion for the…

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