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Much Colder Weekend Coming…

Screen Shot 2016-03-16 at 10.12.10 PMHighlights:

  • Mostly dry close to the work week
  • Rain to snow this weekend
  • Quickly warmer early next week

Keep The Jackets Nearby…We’ve enjoyed April and May-like temperatures over the past couple weeks, so you knew we had to make up for the warmth sooner or later.  Thankfully, the pending weekend chill isn’t anything we can’t handle.  That said, it will serve as a rather rude shock to the system for those craving sustained spring.

We’ll wrap up the work week on a mostly dry note (only a spotty shower chance), but we’ll increase overall coverage of shower activity Saturday.  While it’ll be far from a wash out, when you combine the areal increase of shower coverage and much colder air, it may be a day to spend indoors watching basketball (any excuse will work, right? ;-)).  As colder air gets involved, it’s possible rain ends as a wet snow flake, or two.

We’ll turn briefly milder early and middle parts of next week as a warm front passes with showers Tuesday.  Steadier rains arrive Wednesday before colder air returns yet again heading into the Easter weekend.

7-Day Precipitation Forecast:

  • Snowfall: Trace
  • Rainfall: 0.50″ – 0.75″
Interested in more in-depth long range forecast discussions, video updates, ag. forecasts, and seasonal outlooks? E-mail bill@indywx.com for more information.
7-Day Outlook, Easter, Forecast, Rain, snow, Spring, Unseasonably Cool Weather, Unseasonably Warm

Rainy Monday; Severe Weather Possible Tuesday Night…

Screen Shot 2016-03-14 at 9.14.04 AMHighlights:

  • Rainy open to the week
  • Severe storms possible Tuesday night
  • Active pattern continues this week

Rainy Monday; Severe Storms Possible Tuesday…A disturbance is helping push showers and thunderstorms north into central IN to open the work week.  Most of the rain and embedded thunderstorms will fall during the morning into the afternoon hours before drier air works in here tonight.  That will set us up for a mostly dry, breezy, and warm Tuesday, but all attention will be on Tuesday night.  We still think thunderstorms that ignite in IL Tuesday afternoon will race eastward and impact Indiana Tuesday night.  More specifically, we’re bracketing the hours of 8p-2a for severe prospects locally.  All modes of severe weather are in play, particularly damaging winds and hail.  Stay tuned.

As we progress into the second half of the week, things remain rather busy.  A couple weak disturbances could offer up Thursday showers (especially south).  The evolution of things this weekend is still very much up in the air, but for now we’ll go with increasing clouds Saturday giving way to showers.  As colder air gets involved with this storm system, precipitation may mix or end as wet snow Sunday.

7-Day Precipitation Forecast:

  • Snowfall: Trace
  • Rainfall: 1.25″ – 1.75″ (locally heavier totals)
Interested in more in-depth long range forecast discussions, video updates, ag. forecasts, and seasonal outlooks? E-mail bill@indywx.com for more information.
7-Day Outlook, Forecast, Rain, Severe Weather, snow, T-storms, Unseasonably Warm

Snow Transitions To Rain…

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Highlights:

  • Snow changes to rain
  • Dry close to the work week
  • Warm, but wet pattern develops next week

Snow Transitions To Rain…Snow spread over central IN during the overnight and most neighborhoods accumulated between 1″-2″.  Warm air advection will result in snow transitioning to rain from south to north as we progress through the late morning hours.  All in all, it’ll be a raw Thursday.

Weak high pressure will build in and result in dry conditions Friday with sunshine returning.

A fast moving system will clip the region Saturday with a sprinkle or flurry possible, but this doesn’t appear to be a big deal in the least.

The bigger story?  The developing unseasonably warm period developing next week, but we caution this will also be a wet period as a prolonged SW flow transports moisture-rich Gulf of Mexico air into the region.  Heavy rain totals will be a good bet.

7-Day Outlook, Forecast, Rain, snow, Unseasonably Cool Weather, Unseasonably Warm