Category: Spring

Mar 27

Strong To Severe Storms By Easter Evening…

Happy Easter!  From all of us at IndyWx.com, we wish you a blessed day!

Easter Sunday is off to a beautiful start with lots of sunshine, temperatures in the 40s, and light winds.  Unfortunately, things will begin to change in rather significant fashion as early as the evening hours.  Beforehand, expect sunshine to help boost temperatures into the lower 70s across many central IN neighborhoods.  It’ll turn increasingly moist, as well, as surface dew points jump into the lower 60s.

Highs today will reach the lower 70s.

Highs today will reach the lower 70s.

Dew points will climb into the lower 60s by evening.

Dew points will climb into the lower 60s by evening.

An approaching area of low pressure and associated cold front will provide just enough spin/ lift, in combination with the warmth and increasingly moist air mass, to ignite storms this evening.  Some of these storms will likely reach strong to severe levels.  We’re most concerned for the potential of damaging straight line winds and large hail.

High resolution simulated radar data suggests storms ignite around 6p across central IN.  We caution that this image should be used as guidance and not taken verbatim.

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Mar 21

The “Ups And Downs” Of Spring…

Screen Shot 2016-03-21 at 9.17.30 AMHighlights:

  • Dry, chilly open to the week
  • Unsettled mid week
  • Watching Easter

Ice Scrapers Needed This Morning…Many Indiana neighborhoods awoke to temperatures in the 20s this morning.  Thankfully, that late March sun angle will help boost temperatures quickly today to around 50 for afternoon highs.

A warm front will lift through the region Tuesday and could spark a shower or two, but most will remain dry.  We’ll turn briefly milder Tuesday and Wednesday before better coverage of showers and embedded thunder arrive on scene Thursday.  This is in association with a cold front that will deliver a quick pop of colder air to close the week, including Good Friday.  There’s the chance enough cold air could catch lingering moisture to allow for a few snow showers late Thursday night before we dry things out completely.

As we look ahead to Easter, another storm system will arrive quickly.  As such, we’re forced to increase rain chances (and coverage) Easter Sunday.

Longer term, indications continue to point towards a rather rude open to April, including well below normal temperatures.

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Mar 20

Sunday Weather Rambles…

1.) Indianapolis is running much warmer (+9.1°) and slightly drier than normal (-0.15″) month-to-date.      2.) Snow is flying to our southwest, and accumulating for some in and around St.…

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Mar 16

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″
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Mar 12

Saturday Evening IndyWx.com Video Update…

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