Mar 06
It’s another frigid start to the day and this seems to be the story of the winter of 2024-2015. The weather roundup of 7am temperatures and March 6th snow cover…
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Mar 05
Hang In There; Help Is On The Way…Today and Friday will be incredibly cold for this time of year. Morning clouds should give way to increasing afternoon sunshine today. The combination of clear skies, a widespread snowpack, and arctic high pressure overhead will lead to a frigid night tonight. We officially forecast 2 degrees below zero at IND by Friday morning, but there will be colder reports in outlying areas away from the city.
A moderating trend begins this weekend with sunshine. A weak weather system will scoot through here Saturday night and early Sunday with a possible light shower or snow shower- not a big deal by any means.
The moderating trend gets even stronger early next week and we forecast highs near 50 Tuesday and pushing 60 Wednesday! Enjoy!
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Mar 04
Light Snow Moves In This Afternoon…While heavy snow will remain to our south, we do forecast light snow to overspread portions of central Indiana later this afternoon into the evening hours. This won’t be a huge deal, but a dusting to 1″ of accumulation will be possible around the city, itself. Heavier snow will fall downstate. Heads up if you’re traveling south.
The bigger story will be a MUCH colder air mass that arrives tonight and sets up a frigid Thursday. We’ll be on record watch Thursday to potentially set a new record cold max. It’ll be close. Cold air remains with us to wrap up the work week.
A weak weather system will scoot north of the area Saturday night into Sunday morning, but may be close enough to provide a quick rain or snow shower.
Early next week looks dry with a moderating trend. We’re expecting a more pronounced warm up for the second half of next week…60s, anyone?!
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Mar 03
Rough Travel Conditions This Morning…Freezing rain and freezing drizzle is making a mess of the morning commute. Thankfully, eventually we’ll climb above freezing around, or just after, noon. Before then, icy travel conditions can be expected. Take it slow or postpone travel until the afternoon if possible. By this afternoon, temperatures will climb above freezing and plain ole rain can be expected into tonight. We don’t anticipate flooding issues locally as rain won’t be heavy enough and temperatures won’t be warm enough to result in significant melting.
Much colder air will blow into town late tonight and Wednesday morning and as a second area of low pressure tracks along the front, widespread accumulating snow is a good bet across the southern half of the state Wednesday afternoon into Thursday morning. As of now, we still target areas along and south of I-70 most at risk for snow accumulation Wednesday afternoon.
A much drier, but cold, pattern will be with us to wrap up the work week, including more record cold a good bet. Dry and slightly milder conditions are ahead over the weekend before a weak system may deliver a light snow or rain shower early next week.
Looking ahead, it appears as if we finally may deal with a much milder, spring-like pattern around mid March. 60s for highs anyone?! That said, concerns remain that we reverse this and go colder than normal late March.
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In case you missed it this morning, we posted an article on meteorological winter and you can find it by clicking here.
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Mar 03
We wanted to take a moment and discuss the 2014-2015 meteorological winter. Going into the winter, we knew this would be one of many challenges. The nearly ideal SST profile…
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