Updated 02.12.21 @ 5:50p
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Feb 12
Updated 02.12.21 @ 5:50p
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Feb 12
Updated: 02.12.21 @ 7:34a
Use This Weekend To Prep…The short-term portion of this forecast is relatively quiet. Take advantage and prepare for significant winter weather next week. We may even see a few breaks in the cloud cover today. All in all, look for mostly cloudy and continued cold conditions. Keep in mind, average highs this time of year should be close to 40°. We’ll be nowhere near that anytime soon. In fact, most days will feature high temperatures even colder than average lows for this time of year!
Reinforcing arctic air will penetrate the area Saturday and will likely kick up some light snow showers- especially during the afternoon. Light snow will remain a possibility Valentine’s Day, but “light” is the key word.
The more exciting part of this forecast comes at us as we open the work week. Surface low pressure will develop in the northwest Gulf of Mexico Sunday night and track northeast up along the Appalachians. This will spread a swath of snow into the Ohio Valley through the day Monday. It appears as if snow will become heavy at times Monday evening into the predawn hours Tuesday before tapering to light snow/ snow showers late Tuesday morning. This will be a much more powdery snow than we typically see with these Gulf storms, due to having truly arctic air involved with the storm. Gusty winds will create significant blowing and drifting issues throughout the early and middle portion of the work week.
That then leads us to the threat of another significant winter storm as we push into Wednesday night into Friday morning. We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves, but the threat is very real that this storm also deals out heavy impacts across the region with additional heavy snow possible during the aforementioned time frame.
We’d suggest using the weekend to prepare for the potential of two back-to-back “big deal” winter storms. We’ll be here through the weekend with additional updates.
Averages: H: 39/ L: 23° on the 12th –> H: 41°/ L: 25° on the 18th
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Feb 11
Updated 02.11.21 @ 10:48p I apologize for the abrupt stop in tonight’s video. After rambling on for close to 20 min., YouTube informed me that I had to trim under…
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Feb 11
Updated 02.11.21 @ 7:55a
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Feb 08
Updated: 02.08.21 @ 5:35p
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Feb 07
Updated 02.07.21 @ 9:02p
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Jan 30
Updated 01.30.21 @ 3:06p
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Jan 30
Updated 01.30.21 @ 7:28a
Type: Impactful Wintry Weather
What: Accumulating snow
When: 4p Saturday – 4a Sunday
Temperatures: 29° to 33°
Wind: SE 10 – 20 MPH and gusty
Blowing/ Drifting: Minimal
Pavement Impacts: Plowing and salting will be required
Summary: Clouds will continue to lower and thicken through the morning. By early afternoon, the sky across most of central IN will have that classic look of a snowstorm brewing, and rightfully so. The initial band of snow will arrive mid to late afternoon (we bracket 4p to 5p into Indianapolis, itself). The combination of evaporative cooling, strong lift, and embedded banding features will likely result in S+ (heavy snow) throughout the evening hours across central Indiana. This will be a wet, heavy snow. As the heavy precipitation begins, the column of air will cool rapidly late afternoon (temperatures will likely fall from around 40° into the lower 30s within less than an hr as part of the “evaporative cooling” process). Looking over the latest guidance, it continues to appear as if areas along and south of the I-70 corridor will then go just above freezing later tonight and result in a brief mix before transitioning over to rain. Drizzle or mixed rain and snow showers Sunday will transition back to snow showers throughout the afternoon, but the majority of accumulating snow across our region will fall in that 12 hour period from 4p Saturday to 4a Sunday.
Confidence: High
Next Update: This afternoon (video)
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Jan 29
Updated 01.29.21 @ 5:05p
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Jan 29
Updated: 01.29.21 @ 7:38a
Type: Impactful wintry weather
What: Accumulating snow
When: 4p Saturday – 4a Sunday
Temperatures: 29° to 32°
Wind: SE 10 – 20 MPH and gusty
Blowing/ Drifting: Considerable
Pavement Impacts: Plowing and salting will be required
Summary: Saturday will likely start off with early morning sunshine before a lowering and thickening cloud canopy rolls in through late morning. By early afternoon, the sky across most of central IN will have that classic look of a snowstorm brewing, and rightfully so. The initial band of snow will arrive mid to late afternoon (we bracket 4p to 5p into Indianapolis, itself) and will hit like a wall. The combination of evaporative cooling, strong lift, and embedded banding features will likely result in S+ (heavy snow) throughout the evening hours across central Indiana. This will be a wet, heavy snow. Most of central Indiana should remain snow throughout the night, the exception being areas on the south side of the city (line from Greencastle to Greenwood to Greensburg) and points south where temperatures may creep just above 32° and result in a brief mix before transitioning over to rain. Drizzle or mixed rain and snow showers Sunday will transition back to snow showers throughout the afternoon, but the majority of accumulating snow across our region will fall in that 12 hour period from 4p to 4a Sunday.
Confidence: High
Next Update: This afternoon (video)
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