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Jan 22
Cold Pattern With Multiple Opportunities For Snow On The Horizon…
It may be briefly milder now, but we’re locked into an overall cold pattern for the foreseeable future. There are multiple opportunities for snow to go along with the cold,…
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Jan 07
Rain By Lunchtime And More Active Times In The Days Ahead…
Rain will overspread the state early afternoon and most area rain gauges can expect to accumulate between one tenth and one quarter inch by this evening. Tuesday is a day…
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Dec 16
“Pulling The Curtain Back” On The Late December Pattern…
Late December through early January is a critical time period where most folks (even those maybe not normally interested in the weather) are glued in on the forecast. For some, they’re rooting for a white Christmas, while others are preparing for holiday travel to see loved ones. The idea here of a transitional pattern remains and this should promote active weather during the holidays this year.
Understanding things can change with respect to timing from this distance (in some cases 2+ weeks out), these are the dates we’re targeting for storm impacts across central Indiana:
- Dec. 20-21
- Dec. 24-25
- Dec. 27
- Dec. 30-31
Before we talk specifics, it’s important to look at some of the pattern drivers. Some of these drivers include teleconnections such as the NAO, AO, PNA, and MJO.
Forecast indices with respect to the AO, NAO, and PNA are expected to be more or less neutral through the late month period. This is what the respective teleconnection “state” would result in the temperature department across the country.
Arctic Oscillation
North Atlantic Oscillation
Pacific North American Pattern
The basis of our late-December forecast is built from the MJO, or Madden-Julian Oscillation. We note the MJO is expected to rumble through Phase 4 before heading into Phase 5 around Christmas. Phase 4 (image 2 below) is a warm phase and correlates well to what the week ahead will provide. However, Phase 5 (image 3 below) is a colder phase and could “up the ante” for the potential of wintry weather around Christmas.
If the MJO amplitude remains, it’ll roll into Phase 6 to close the month and open January. Here’s how that would correlate in the temperature department:
The upcoming week will run milder than normal- lining up perfectly with MJO Phase 4.
The first of our targeted holiday storm systems will come at the tail end of the warm Phase 4 and will likely deliver a wind-whipped rain in here as early as Wednesday night and Thursday morning. However, as the storm pulls northeast along the Ohio River, it’ll deepen on its journey into the eastern Great Lakes region. This will help pull colder air into the region, likely resulting in rain transitioning to snow Friday. Given the path of the storm, this doesn’t favor some sort of prolonged backlash snow event, but it could be enough to result in accumulating snow across eastern Ohio Valley sections and downwind of the snow belt regions of northern IN, OH, and MI.
The pattern, as a whole, appears to be one of transition to close the month and open January and it’s not really until we get to mid-January where we think all of the drivers “align” to create more of a lock and hold cold pattern. With that said, a stormy late December pattern can present problems, even in the midst of relatively mild times. We’ll be here to dissect the storms as they come throughout the holiday season…
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Nov 12
Looking At A Busy (Wintry) Week Ahead…
I. A weak weather system will result in light precipitation (mostly snow) overspreading central and northern portions of the state later this evening into the overnight. Moisture looks less and less impressive with each and every model run, but we’ll still go with a slushy coating to less than 1″ for the city, itself with a general 1″ to 2″ of wet snow for communities off to the north of the city. Additionally, a lake effect snow band should get going Tuesday morning and this band may make it south into east-central Indiana in a weakened state.
Light snow will overspread the region tonight. Image courtesy of Weathermodels.com.
II. Another push of unseasonably cold air will pour south into the region behind this storm system and set the stage for a potentially interesting time of things when a new storm system approaches a bit later in the week…
III. A very complex storm system will impact the area Thursday. While there are many details that are yet to be worked out, someone across the mid-south into the Ohio Valley will likely get a “plowable” snow out of this event. Initially, available cold air will be marginal, but with an expected strong upper level low, this storm system is likely to “manufacture” its’ own cold air and result in a swath of heavy, wet snow to the north and northwest of where the upper low tracks. Stay tuned.
Behind this storm, you guessed it- cold air will reinforce itself across the region heading into next weekend!
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