Category: Thanksgiving
Highlights:
- Colder than normal, but dry
- Windy, but mostly dry this weekend
- Moderating ahead of the next storm
Dry For The Big Travel Day…A cold front is passing through the state as we type this forecast with a light band of moisture (light rain ending as light snow). This will serve up cold, but dry conditions for the big travel day, and continued dry conditions Thanksgiving Day. “Average” temperatures Thanksgiving feature lows around 30° and highs in the middle 40s, and we’ll be pretty close to those values. Black Friday will feature dry, but increasingly breezy conditions.
Thankfully, weather conditions will be tranquil for “Iron Bowl Saturday” (WARRRR EAGLE)!!! With the exception of an early shower, look for dry conditions along with a shifting breeze that will help push colder air in for the second half of the weekend.
Those chilly conditions won’t last long as we get into an increasingly gusty southwesterly flow and milder conditions next week ahead of the next approaching storm system…
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: Trace
- Rainfall: 0.10″
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High pressure will remain in control of our weather as we open the short Thanksgiving week. This will supply plentiful sunshine today, along with an increasingly gusty southwest wind by this afternoon (30 MPH). A cold start (most in the middle 20s) will moderate to near seasonal norms by this afternoon (upper 40s to around 50).
A tightening pressure gradient will result in gusty winds this afternoon.
Reinforcing chilly air will blow into town Tuesday night. Ahead of this, weak moisture return will lead to a few showers Tuesday afternoon. Winds will shift to the northwest Tuesday night and help push a colder air mass into the state. This colder than average theme will continue for Thanksgiving Day, itself. Highs in the lower 40s Wednesday and Thursday can be expected with lows in the middle to upper 20s. Dry weather will quickly return Wednesday and Thursday.
A few light showers will move into town Tuesday afternoon.
Finally, another weak weather maker will approach late Black Friday into the holiday weekend. This cold front will be enough to generate showers Saturday and will help push another shot of chill into the area as we close the weekend. Similar to Tuesday afternoon’s rain, amounts will be very light. In fact, total rainfall with both systems should fall in the 0.10″-0.25″ range.
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Highlights:
- Big changes this weekend
- Relatively calm Thanksgiving week
- Chilly Thanksgiving
Storms To Snow This Weekend…An approaching storm system will lead to an active open to the weekend. Beforehand, thankfully, we’ll close the work week out on a rather quiet note. The daytime hours will remain dry before moisture begins to return this evening. An initial round of showers will move across central Indiana (thinking between 8p-9p) before steadier and heavier rain and embedded thunderstorms blow into town Saturday. A strengthening surface low will move from the central Plains tonight and into the southern Great Lakes Saturday. This will lead to a briefly milder surge of air Saturday morning into the early afternoon before a cold front sweeps through the state and leads to a sharply colder close to the day. Right ahead of the cold front, a skinny, but potentially intense, line of thunderstorms will track across central Indiana late Saturday morning into early Saturday afternoon. Damaging wind gusts are possible as this thin line of storms advances across central and southern Indiana. Winds will then shift around to the northwest and help drive much colder air into the region through the afternoon and evening. In fact, we’ll turn cold enough to allow precipitation to end as a touch of wet snow Saturday evening.
We’ll wrap up the weekend and kick off Thanksgiving week on a much calmer note. Chilly high pressure will build in Sunday, allowing sunshine to return, but temperatures will run around 15° below normal. A dry cold front will pass through the state Tuesday. With the exception of a wind shift and a few more clouds we really shouldn’t expect much more in the way of “excitement.” This will allow unseasonably cool air to return for Thanksgiving, itself.
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: Trace – Dusting
- Rainfall: 1.00″ – 1.50″
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Highlights:
- Wet Wednesday
- 2nd cold front Friday night
- 3rd cold front arrives Tuesday night
Busy Weather Pattern…Rain is pressing into central Indiana this morning ahead of the first of three cold fronts we’re tracking between now and early Thanksgiving week. Rain will be most widespread this morning into the early afternoon hours before diminishing mid to late afternoon. Reinforcing chilly air will blow into town tonight and we’ll be in between storm systems Thursday.
Our second storm system will lead to increasing clouds Friday afternoon with showers and thunderstorms arriving overnight into Saturday morning. Due to the slower timing of this storm, the late week severe threat has diminished significantly. Nonetheless, it’ll be a windy afternoon and we’ll notice rising nighttime temperatures Friday as the cold front approaches. Morning rain will continue Saturday before a sharp transition to much colder conditions with falling daytime temperatures. We’ll kick off Thanksgiving week on a dry and cold note.
Finally, yet another cold front will approach Tuesday night. Once this front sweeps through the state, the coldest air of the season will settle into the area just in time for Thanksgiving.
Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:
- Snowfall: 0.00″
- Rainfall: 1.50″ – 1.75″
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November 14, 2017
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