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Unseasonably Chilly, Active Pattern…

Screen Shot 2016-04-02 at 9.39.00 AMHighlights:

  • Busy, active pattern
  • Unseasonably cool
  • Multiple hard freezes ahead

Fast-Moving Weather Pattern…The upcoming forecast period will feature multiple fast-moving weather systems in an almost every other day format.  It’s an unseasonably chilly pattern, as whole, as well.

Saturday has opened with plentiful sunshine, but clouds will quickly increase and winds will turn strong (50+ MPH gusts) as we progress into the afternoon.  Batten down the hatches.  A few showers will accompany those clouds and some small hail is also possible with a few “stronger” showers.  As colder air pours in this evening, widely scattered snow showers will impact north-central IN.

A hard freeze will take place tonight into Sunday morning.  High pressure will briefly supply a mostly sunny day Sunday, but our next system will approach late Sunday night.  Consequently, SW winds will turn strong and gusty late Sunday and a broken band of showers will be associated with reinforcing chilly air late Sunday night into the pre dawn hours Monday.

A more significant storm system will arrive on the scenes mid week and feature more widespread rains Wednesday (perhaps an embedded thunderstorm, as well).  As a cold front slides through here Thursday, MUCH colder air will push into central IN and transition lingering left over moisture into scattered snow showers/ flurries late Thursday night into early Friday morning.  Friday certainly won’t feel much like April around these parts…

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Clouds Slowly Diminish Today; Rain Returns Mid Week…

It’s a much cooler and overcast start to the work week.  A quick snap shot of the morning satellite shows a stubborn low cloud deck that will slowly erode as we progress into the back half of the day from west to east.

Screen Shot 2016-03-28 at 8.02.27 AMChilly high pressure will settle over the region through the early week and provide drier conditions.  Temperatures will fall to frosty levels tonight (30-32 degrees for most).

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4Our air flow will back around to the SW Wednesday into Thursday and this will transport warmer, more moist air northward.  As such, rain chances will begin to go up late Wednesday into Thursday.

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3Rainfall amounts don’t look particularly impressive from this distance (0.50″-0.75″), but we’ll continue to keep an eye on things.

A secondary cold front will move through the region to close the work week and send much cooler air south.  The good news?  While still colder than normal, model trends haven’t been as cold in recent runs.  We still think multiple nights of sub-freezing temperatures are ahead, but the “absurd cold” looks to remain to our north/ northeast as of now.

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