Another mild day is on tap with a southwest flow ahead of a frontal boundary that slips through this evening with light showers. Note the sharp temperature gradient this evening.…
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Spring Fever This Weekend…Lots of sunshine and enough of a southwesterly air flow will help boost temperatures to around the 50 degree mark this afternoon from IND and points south (even some mid to upper 50s possible far down state). Farther north, the deeper snowpack will limit warming and instead keep highs in the upper 30s to near 40 across the northern third of the state.
A cold front will blow through the region Sunday evening with some light shower activity and colder air moving in Sunday night that may lead to a few flurries/ light snow showers Monday morning. Another fast-moving weather disturbance will blow through Wednesday with a light shower and then we’ll welcome winter back into the region with authority. Much colder air and snow showers return for the end of the week.
Looking ahead, mid and late February appears to have plenty of wintry “fun and games” in store for the region. Winter’s far from finished….
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Spring Fever Anyone?! Hearing lots of rumbles of folks craving spring, as is usually the case around these parts come early February. We still have more winter to go, but this weekend may lead to a surge in spring fever as temperatures moderate. We may have to deal with more clouds than we’d like, but temperatures will warm to well above normal levels- especially Sunday. We’ll introduce a couple of showers into the mix for the second half of the weekend, but these won’t be a big deal.
Slightly colder air moves in early next week, but it’s really not until after a weak disturbance passes Wednesday that the true arctic plunge will take place.
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Busy Times In The Forecast Office…Let’s get to the easy part of this forecast package and that’s today. Look for lots of sunshine along with seasonably mild temperatures after a cold and frosty start.
Things get fun tomorrow as a clipper low dives southeast and tracks in a favorable position for accumulating snow- especially from the city and points north (snowfall forecast below). A mixture of rain and snow will overspread central Indiana Sunday morning and transition to all snow through the late morning into the early afternoon. This will be a heavy, wet snow (perfect for snowball fights or making a snowman). The other aspect to this storm system will be an increasing east and northeast wind Sunday evening into Monday morning. Snow will diminish Sunday night, but the “damage” will likely be done by that point, leaving a mark on your Monday morning commute.
Another (weaker) weather maker may deliver scattered snow showers Tuesday.
Briefly milder air will move in here Thursday with a mixture of rain, snow, and sleet (depending on where you’re viewing us through the state), but the bigger story will be MUCH colder air set to pour into the region to close January and open February. Some forecast models suggest a winter storm will precede the bitterly cold air around Super Bowl Sunday…. Stay tuned.
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Colder, But Nothing Too Out Of The Ordinary…A colder theme will be with us as we put a wrap on the work week. That said, temperatures will actually be much closer to where they should be for this time of the year. A quiet weather pattern will continue until we watch a clipper system for the second half of the weekend. As of now, the accumulating snow looks to stay north of our immediate region, but we’ll keep a close eye on it. Officially, we’ll call for increasingly cloudy skies Saturday night into Sunday morning with scattered rain showers Sunday afternoon changing to snow showers Sunday night before ending. If traveling north, prepare for several inches of snow across northern portions of the state into the Great Lakes region. Stay tuned as this system is still a few days off and changes can take place moving forward. Colder air follows for early next week.
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