Category Archives: Rain

Dry Weekend; Clipper Snow Next Week?

Screen Shot 2016-01-23 at 10.13.29 AMHighlights:

  • Cold, but dry weekend
  • Weak system delivers showers/ flurries early week
  • Models disagree on clipper track

Cold, But Lots-O-Sunshine…A major winter storm is hammering areas still from the southern Appalachians into the Mid Atlantic and Northeast.  Light flurries fell across central IN Friday evening, but drier air quickly built into the region overnight and sets the stage for a cold, but sunny weekend.  Gusty NE winds that were felt Friday and overnight will also begin to diminish today.

Our next weather maker will blow into town Monday, but will be weak.  Showers will accompany the frontal passage Monday evening before snow flurries/ light snow showers fly in the cold air advection Tuesday morning.  All in all, this won’t be a big deal.

The next potential “trouble maker” awaits for the middle part of the week, but caution model data is all over the board on the eventual track of this clipper system.  We’ll lean more towards the Canadian solution at this juncture (model of choice with clippers) and forecast snow showers to build into central IN Thursday.  From this distance, model solutions range from snowy (light accumulation) to dry and mild.  We wouldn’t have it any other way this winter. 😉

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Action To Our South; Relatively Quiet Here…

Screen Shot 2016-01-21 at 7.38.55 AMHighlights:

  • Cold, dry, and increasingly windy
  • Heavy snow across far southern IN
  • Weak system Monday

Watching A Major Winter Storm To Our South…As busy as things will be for our friends to our south and east, the weather, locally, will be about as quiet as we can expect this time of year.  Hefty (and in some cases crippling) snows will fall to our south and southeast.  Here on the home front we can expect a day with mixed clouds and sun today before we turn mostly cloudy Friday.  We’ll feel the “outer impacts” of the major winter storm to our south Friday in the form of strong and gusty east winds that slowly begin to diminish Saturday.  Sunday looks beautiful and it’ll feel downright balmy when compared to the bitterly cold air of late.

Our next weather maker is looking less and less impressive and will deal a few showers Monday followed by cold air returning Tuesday and Wednesday with scattered snow showers.  – Doesn’t look like a big deal in the least from this distance.

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Cold Weather Gear Required Moving Forward…

Screen Shot 2016-01-15 at 8.23.56 AMHighlights:

  • Rain develops today
  • Frigid air awaits
  • Tracking snow makers

Turning Wet Today; Big Cold Coming…It’s a mild start to our Friday, but overcast skies will give way to developing showers late morning, continuing through the afternoon hours.  Colder air will push in tonight and may lead to a transition to wet snow before precipitation ends.  Forecast models are struggling on handling the arrival of cold air and this will once again be a “now-cast” type situation as we go into the evening hours.  When compared to last Saturday night’s event, this isn’t nearly as significant from a total precipitation standpoint, including snow totals.

Saturday will be a day where we’re in between storm systems.  Morning flurries will be possible, but we continue to eye an arctic wave pushing into the area Sunday.  Moisture will be limited, but with very cold air moving in, it won’t take much to “fluff up” a quick inch.  The bigger deal will be strong and gusty winds and bitterly cold air.

Forecast models have really been struggling as of late and our overall confidence on how they handle things the middle of next week is quite low at the moment.  That said, Wednesday-Thursday will require our attention moving forward for the prospects of accumulating snow.  Another storm awaits late next week…

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Thaw Will Be Brief; Arctic Hammer Set To Drop…

Screen Shot 2016-01-14 at 7.50.47 AMHighlights:

  • Brief thaw
  • Coldest air of the season awaits
  • Snow squalls accompany the arctic air

Enjoy Today; New Polar Plunge Coming…While we wait on the next severe blast of cold air, enough SW air flow will help boost temperatures to above normal levels today and Friday.  We’ll introduce a few showers into the Friday forecast, so today is the “pick of the week!”  Find a way to enjoy it!

What at one time looked like a significant storm system Friday into Saturday is now anything but.  A very weak area of low pressure will provide showers Friday before transitioning to snow flurries as precipitation ends.  Precipitation amounts will be light with this system.

Colder air begins to return tomorrow night and Saturday, but it’s Saturday night and Sunday that the next arctic invasion will get underway.  By now you know the deal- we’ll also contend with snow showers and embedded heavier squalls, along with very gusty winds.

A frigid opening to next week will take place before we eye our next snow maker the middle of next week.

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