Category: Forecast
Highlights:
- Pick of the week is today
- Evening severe potential Saturday
- Unsettled stretch continues
Have The Sunglasses Handy Today…Today is easily the pick of the week as high pressure supplies sunshine and a cool start. With the May sun angle in place, chilly morning lows in the lower 40s will quickly rise into the lower 70s for afternoon highs.
A cold front will approach Saturday and slice into a briefly warm and humid air mass in place across the region. With highs approaching 80 and dew points surging into the lower 60s, don’t be surprised by strong to severe thunderstorms across central IN during the afternoon and evening hours.
The cold front will slip to our south for Sunday, but remain close enough to continue shower chances across central parts of the state. It’ll be a much cooler day with a north wind in play.
As we move into the new work week, we’ll continue the active and unsettled theme. While it won’t rain the entire time, expect numerous showers and embedded thunderstorms through mid week.
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Highlights:
- Strong storms develop this evening
- Scattered showers through mid week
- Unseasonably cool open to May
Watching For Evening Storm Development…The morning has gotten off to a beautiful start across central IN, but the sunshine will likely be enough to help destabilize things just enough to assist in afternoon/ evening thunderstorm development. Additionally, a frontal boundary remains draped across the state and we’ll await a wave of low pressure to move along the front this evening. A few strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible with large hail and damaging straight line winds the biggest concerns. We’ll keep an eye on the radar later today.
We’ll flip the page and turn much cooler for the upcoming week. Reinforcing cool air will be accompanied by showers at times through the mid week period, but we should turn drier late week (and eventually warmer).
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Highlights:
- Friday sunshine before clouds increase late
- Unsettled weekend
- Reinforcing cool air next week accompanied by showers
Enjoy The Sun While We Have It…A dry day is on tap and while it’s gotten off to a sunny start, clouds will be on the increase late today. Those clouds will deliver rain and scattered thunderstorms Saturday. Some of the rain may be locally heavy. We’re looking at widespread 1″-1.5″ totals, but there will be locally heavier amounts. While scattered showers and thunderstorms will remain Sunday, the wetter of the two weekend days is slated for Saturday.
The work week will start dry with increasing sunshine, but cooler. Reinforcing cool air will blow in Tuesday and again Thursday. Each cool air reinforcement could be accompanied by a scattered light shower. That said, next week looks significantly drier with compared to this week.
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Highlights:
- T-storms develop this afternoon
- Another round of showers and t-storms push in Wednesday afternoon/ evening
- Briefly drier Friday
- New storm delivers a wet weekend
Turning Noisy This Afternoon…It’s a relatively quiet start to the day across central IN, but a cold front will help ignite rather robust shower and thunderstorm development as early as the lunchtime hour. Storms will grow in intensity and coverage as we progress through the afternoon and evening, especially along I-70 and points south. Locally heavy rain will be likely. Stronger storms will be capable of producing hail and damaging winds.
Another round of showers and thunderstorms are on deck Wednesday afternoon and evening. When all is said and done by Thursday morning, widespread rain totals of 1″ to 1.5″ will be a good bet, with locally heavier amounts.
Friday will feature a beautiful close to the work week with drier air working in and some sunshine. That said, the sunny skies won’t last as showers and thunderstorms return over the weekend.
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Highlights:
- Lots of sun through the daytime
- Storms rumble in late tonight
- Unsettled mid week pattern
- New storm delivers rain and wind this weekend
Beautiful Today; Storms Arrive Late Tonight…We couldn’t ask for better weather through the daytime today (despite a gusty SW wind), but chances for rather noisy thunderstorms increase late tonight into the predawn hours Tuesday. Unsettled conditions remain Tuesday, including scattered thunderstorms especially across the I-70 corridor and points south. Locally hefty downpours will be possible.
More widespread showers and embedded thunder are on tap Wednesday into Thursday, especially through the morning hours Thursday. Widespread 1″-1.5″ rain totals are a good bet between now and Thursday morning, with some locally heavier amounts.
We still think we get a briefly drier air mass in here to close the work week, but this won’t last long. Our next storm system is dialed up for a weekend arrival and will provide a stiff easterly breeze and rain Saturday PM through Sunday.
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