Category Archives: Rain

Early Fall Feel Coming…

Screen Shot 2016-08-17 at 10.08.38 AMHighlights:

  • Scattered Showers
  • Saturday storm chance
  • Early fall feel on deck

Drier Overall…It’s been a wet few days across the region.  While we’ll begin to transition towards a drier regime to wrap up the work week, scattered showers and storms will remain in the forecast today and Thursday.  Best concentration of storms will be located across north-central IN this evening.  Rain/ storm coverage will be even less on Thursday.

Our next item of interest will arrive on the scene in the form of a cold front Saturday.  Showers and a couple gusty thunderstorms are a good bet Saturday afternoon/ evening as the cold front sweeps through the state.  Our winds will then shift to the northwest and help usher in a much cooler, drier time of things for the second half of the weekend.  Stepping outside Sunday morning will provide a definite hint of fall, complete with a breezy NW wind.

Early next week will continue to feature dry and unseasonably cool times before we turn our attention to what could potentially be a heavy rain maker setting up just past the 7-day period…

Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:

  • Snowfall: 0.00″
  • Rainfall: 0.50″-0.75″
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Another Wet Day…

Screen Shot 2016-08-16 at 7.37.17 AMHighlights:

  • Periods of rain
  • Increasing sunshine as we push into late week
  • Weekend cold front

Keep The Rain Gear Handy…Whew, after an incredibly busy evening, things will be much quieter today.  Despite not having a severe threat, we will have to deal with wet times as periods of rain continue.  Rain coverage will diminish Wednesday, but we’ll keep scattered showers in the forecast.

Drier air will arrive Thursday and Friday, including a partly cloudy sky.  The next weather item on the horizon is a weekend cold front.  This frontal boundary will help increase storm chances Saturday into early Sunday (a few storms Saturday evening could be on the strong side).  MUCH cooler, early fall-like, air awaits next week…

Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:

  • Snowfall: 0.00″
  • Rainfall: 0.75″-1.25″

Here are a few photos I shot Monday evening (8.15.16), between 6:47p-6:55p, just after the tornado touched down in Whitestown.

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A Wet Weekend In Store…

Screen Shot 2016-08-11 at 7.22.58 AMHighlights:

  • Tropical feel
  • Heavy weekend rains
  • Unsettled early next week

Zoning In On Heaviest Rains…It’s about as humid as it can get across central IN.  “Air you can wear” is the appropriate way to describe this humidity and overall sultry feel.  As we’d expect with this tropical air mass, isolated to widely scattered strong storms could pop at any point and result in locally heavy rain.  We’ll “rinse and repeat” today’s forecast to wrap up the work week.

Attention then shifts to a widespread soaking rain event this weekend as two main players “team up” to produce a localized flood threat.  A cold front will sag into central IN while remnant tropical moisture slowly moves north and eventually curls northeast.  Precisely where the front stalls in response to the tropical low moving north will be where heaviest (4″+) rains set up.  Thinking this morning places the greatest risk somewhere between Indianapolis and Louisville, but we caution that we still want to see a couple more model runs before settling on a given area.  Unsettled weather will likely continue into early next week as tropical moisture slowly exits stage right.

Longer term, indications point towards an overall cooler, wetter, back half of August. Times- they are ‘a changing!

Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:

  • Snowfall: 0.00″
  • Rainfall: 2.00″-4.00″
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Lots Of Sunshine…

Screen Shot 2016-08-02 at 7.14.48 AMHighlights:

  • Lots of sunshine
  • Best storm chances Friday this week
  • Turning less humid this weekend

Sunglasses Required…The storm axis has set itself up to our west, including IA and MO.  At one point, data and upper level steering currents seemed to align in a manner that would be further east, but that’s obviously not the case.  The end result here will be a drier forecast, overall.  We’ll still have to remain on our toes for storm potential through week’s end, but the confidence is low and the drier regime looks good this morning.

Less humid air will push in this weekend, along with continued sunny conditions.  All in all, the first weekend of August looks very pleasant.  Plans to go to the State Fair anyone?

Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:

  • Snowfall: 0.00″
  • Rainfall: 0.25″-0.50″ (locally heavier totals)
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Unsettled, But A Better Feel Coming…

Screen Shot 2016-07-24 at 8.26.06 AMHighlights:

  • Storm chances increase tonight-Monday morning
  • Drier, cooler air on deck
  • Widespread storms Thursday

Hang In There…It’s been a long couple of days with high heat and humidity, but relief is in sight. A cold front will move through the state Monday.  Ahead of this front, a band of showers and thunderstorms will slide through Indiana.  A few of these storms could be strong with locally heavy rain.  Best chances of storms across central IN appear to arrive tonight and Monday morning, before transitioning to southern IN Monday afternoon.  Drier air will arrive Tuesday into Wednesday.

Our next rain and storm chances are dialed up for Thursday and early indications suggest this could be a fairly widespread event.  Though we’ll maintain rain chances next weekend, coverage will diminish when compared to Thursday.  Temperatures will be much more tolerable than what we’re dealing with today.

Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:

  • Snowfall: 0.00″
  • Rainfall: 0.75″-1.25″ (Locally heavier totals)
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