Category: Forecast
Highlights:
- Lots of sunshine for Super Bowl Sunday
- Rain and storms early week
- Mid week snow
Beautiful Super Bowl Sunday; Changes Await…We suggest taking your pregame Super Bowl parties outside today to enjoy what’ll be a rare sunny day! Temperatures will also be milder today, topping out in the upper 40s.
Unfortunately, the sunny skies won’t last as clouds increase Monday morning and showers move in by afternoon. As surface low pressure tracks into the Great Lakes, heavier rains and embedded thunderstorms will increase Monday night into Tuesday morning. A couple of these storms could become strong to severe, and include strong and damaging winds and hail. Colder air will pour into Indiana on gusty northwest winds Tuesday night behind the frontal passage.
Our attention will then shift to a colder regime for mid week. We have to iron out the details, but forecast models suggest an area of low pressure will scoot across the central Plains to the East Coast Wednesday into Thursday. This will spread moisture north into the colder air mass and the result may be a swath of accumulating snow north of the low’s track, including central Indiana. We’ll be left with very cold air to wrap up the work week.
Next weekend, the “tug of war” regime will continue. Southwest winds will usher in milder conditions Saturday with showers.
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: 1″ – 2″
- Rainfall: 0.75″ – 1.25″
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Highlights:
- Windy Tuesday
- Scattered flurries; snow showers tonight-Wednesday AM
- Accumulating weekend snow?
Bumpy Ride…Wind will be the big weather item today as a clipper low passes to our north. Gusty west breezes will reach 30 MPH at times. Otherwise, it’ll be a mild day as highs reach the lower 40s. Cooler air will arrive tonight and will promote the chance of a passing flurry or scattered snow shower into Wednesday morning.
We’ll close the week with cold and dry conditions, including highs below freezing both Thursday and Friday.
As we move into the upcoming weekend, a storm system will attack the lingering cold air and this will allow for a period of snow to develop Saturday night into Sunday morning. We still have time to monitor this event, but as of now this appears to be a relatively weak, flatter wave and “light” is the key word to describe the snow intensity Saturday night into Sunday morning.
Models want to drive a more significant storm system to our northwest early next week. What’s new this winter? A windy warm-up would result, including heavier rains late Monday into Tuesday.
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: 1″ – 2″
- Rainfall: 0.25″ – 0.50″
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Highlights:
- Wintry weekend
- More widespread snow Sunday
- Reinforcing cold next week
Scattered Snow Showers Turns To Steadier Snow Sunday…Upper level energy will continue to track across the region this weekend, setting off periods of snow showers and embedded heavier squalls (case in point this evening). The strongest upper level energy will pass Sunday evening and the result should be a period of more widespread snow Sunday- especially in the afternoon and evening. A light accumulation (1″-2″ potential) is possible.
The new work week will begin with early flurries Monday and then we’ll kick in a strong and gusty southwest wind Monday night, continuing into Tuesday. We’ll turn milder briefly Tuesday, but strong winds will remain. We’ll continue to monitor the Tuesday night-Wednesday morning period as some modeling wants to deliver a round of light snow with the reinforcing chill. We’ll give it another round of model runs, but we may need to hit snow a little harder in the Tuesday night period.
Another disturbance will race through the region Thursday with snow showers and then we’ll eye the potential of a stronger system next weekend…
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: 1″ – 3″
- Rainfall: 0.00″
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Highlights:
- Prolonged period of scattered snow showers
- Much colder and windy
- Winter returns
Scattered Snow Showers; Steadier Snow Sunday? Let’s cut right to the point: The January “thaw” is over. Yes, it was nice while it lasted, but we all knew it couldn’t continue (right?)! 😉
A much colder brand of air will be with us as we close the work week and head into the weekend. Additionally, upper level energy will keep periods of snow showers in our forecast. A more vigorous piece of upper level energy will push southeast to close the weekend and this should create more widespread snow showers. We’ll “enjoy” a colder and blustery weekend.
As the dawn of a new work week arrives, the weather will slowly improve. Colder than normal conditions will remain, but we’ll return to dry conditions Monday.
Our next system will pass Tuesday with gusty winds and colder air for mid week, complete with a return of snow showers.
Looking for potential of “more significant” snow? That may loom just past the current forecast period…
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: 1″ – 2″
- Rainfall: 0.00″
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Highlights:
- Hold on to your hats
- Cold air returns
- Extended period of scattered snow showers; squall potential
Changes Brewing…Wednesday will feature more of the same mild weather we’ve come to know and enjoy across the Mid West over the past couple of weeks. Despite the mild air, a storm system will result in scattered showers for our hump day, along with very windy conditions. Gusts of 40 MPH will be common across central IN.
Temperatures will fall late Wednesday and Old Man Winter is set to make up for lost time as we progress through the back half of the work week and on into the weekend. In addition, fast-moving upper level energy will push southeast in the active northwest flow aloft. Scattered snow showers will result, along with localized embedded heavier squalls. It certainly won’t snow the entire time, but passing snow showers will be a good bet from time to time Thursday through Sunday.
Our wintry pattern will relax briefly early next week, but renewed cold air appears poised to blow into town the middle of next week.
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: Dusting – 1″ (local 2″ amounts possible)
- Rainfall: 0.10″ – 0.25″
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