Turning Less Humid Today; Much Cooler Mid Week…

Screen Shot 2016-06-05 at 10.10.56 AMHighlights:

  • Scattered PM shower/ storm threat through early week
  • Cool, sunny mid week
  • Heat cranks next weekend

Turning Cooler By Midweek…After a significant rain event (on average 0.75″-1.4″ fell across central IN) Saturday, we’re starting our Sunday morning off with partly-mostly cloudy skies.  A much less humid brand of air will build in today, but we can’t completely shake the rain chances.  A scattered afternoon shower is possible.

Reinforcing cooler air will move in Monday and the associated boundary will likely do a better job kicking off scattered shower and thunderstorm activity as it moves through the region.

We’ll turn much cooler and refreshing for mid week, along with lots of sunshine and dry conditions.  As you’d imagine, the refreshing air doesn’t last long this time of year and a SW flow will help temperatures and moisture levels surge to close the work week.  The hottest air of the year so far is slated for next weekend.

Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:

  • 7-Day Snowfall: 0.00″
  • 7-Day Rainfall: 0.25″-0.50″

Wet Saturday On Deck…

It’s been a nice Friday across central IN, including filtered sunshine and lower humidity levels.  Unfortunately, the pleasant weather won’t last as we welcome in the weekend.

A warm front will lift north late tonight and should help moisten things up enough to allow rain to reach the surface across most of central IN during the overnight into the predawn Saturday.

hrrr_ref_indy_15Steady rain and embedded thunderstorms will continue through the morning hours and into the afternoon.

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hires_ref_indy_26Eventually, a cold front will sweep through the state Saturday night and help “slosh” the widespread rain shield east of the region.  By the time this happens, we expect widespread rainfall totals between 0.50″ and 1.00″ across central IN (with locally heavier totals).

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KIND_2016060309_tqpfCooler weather will push in this weekend and continue into early and middle parts of next week.  While the widespread rain will come to an end, upper level energy will remain and could help ignite scattered showers at times (particularly during the afternoon and evening hours) into early next week.

Best Day Of The Week Arrives Friday…

Screen Shot 2016-06-02 at 6.40.10 PMHighlights:

  • Beautiful Friday!
  • Rain and thunder returns Saturday
  • Cooler early next week

TGIF…The best weather day of the week has saved itself for Friday.  Find a way to get outside and enjoy it!  After a delay in the arrival of drier air, we’ll (finally) tap into lower dew points tonight into the day Friday, but it’ll be short-lived.  Increasingly moist air will return as early as overnight Friday into Saturday.  Drizzle and showers could accompany a warm front lifting north through the region during the wee morning hours Saturday.  Additionally, thunderstorms are possible Saturday afternoon and evening as an upper trough surges southeast into the Ohio Valley.

The region will remain in a cooler, northwest flow pattern into early next week.  With plenty of upper level energy around, showers are possible (scattered in nature) during the afternoon hours into Tuesday.  Drier air will allow for partly cloudy skies to return to the forecast by mid week.

Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:

  • Snowfall: 0.00″
  • Rainfall: 0.50″-1.25″

Drier Close To The Work Week; Unsettled, Cooler Weekend…

Screen Shot 2016-06-01 at 5.37.43 PMHighlights:

  • Drier close to the work week
  • Strong storm chance Saturday PM
  • Unsettled and cooler early next week

Turning Cooler Over The Weekend…A cold front tapped into available moisture and resulted in locally heavy rain Wednesday afternoon and evening.  In some spots, as much as 2″ of rain fell in a very short period of time.  We’ll begin to dry things out to wrap up the work week, along with partly cloudy and less humid conditions.

An upper trough will dig into the Ohio Valley Saturday and could help spark strong to potentially severe thunderstorms for portions of the region Saturday afternoon and evening.  We’ll keep a close eye on things over the next day or two.

We’ll turn significantly cooler over the weekend into early next week.  With plenty of upper level energy around the region, we’ll have to mention the chance of a scattered shower into early next week. Dry conditions return by the middle of next week.

Upcoming 7-Day Precipitation Forecast:

  • Snowfall: 0.00″
  • Rainfall: 0.50″-0.75″