Jan 12
First and foremost tonight, our thoughts and prayers are with the Smith family. It’s comforting to know that Andrew is now in heaven and the pain and suffering is no…
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Jan 12
A morning winter storm update shows things going along as planned this morning as the region deal with another snow maker in just over three days. Heavy snow bursts are…
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Jan 11
Quiet time will be short-lived as a new winter storm system begins to impact the region as early as tonight, continuing into Tuesday. The Set-Up: An arctic cold front and…
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Jan 10
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Jan 10
Highlights:
Bitter Feel; Gearing Up For More Snow…Saturday night’s storm system “split” into two and took one swath of snow across far NW IN while a second (more widespread) area of snow was laid down across central IN. Reports into the forecast office this morning indicate 2″-3″ are common across central IN, with a couple 4″ reports. Thank you for all of the snow reports and photos!
While the snow has stopped, we’ll deal with bitterly cold air and blowing snow the rest of the day. Bundle up and take it slow as you venture out. Temperatures will continue to fall into the teens and wind chill values will fall into the single digits to around zero.
Dry and cold conditions will be with us as we open the new work week, but our next weather maker will blow into town late Monday night and Tuesday morning. We still think intense snow bursts will accompany arctic reinforcements that will send temperatures below zero for some Wednesday morning. It won’t take a lot of moisture to “fluff up” 1″-3″ Tuesday morning. Couple that with gusty winds and falling temperatures and things will likely be messy on area roadways.
Looking ahead, a weak weather system will skirt the area to our north Thursday and could offer up a scattered snow shower, but it’s as we look towards next weekend that things become “more interesting.” Model specifics disagree at this time, but the overall pattern is one that’s conducive to lead to a fairly widespread interior winter storm threat. We’ll have to sort through the details as we go through the week. Stay tuned.
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Jan 08
Here’s our initial snowfall map, brought to you by dustytaylorphotography.com.
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Mar 02
Good evening, friends! As promised, there’s a lot on the weather menu over the course of the upcoming several days. Let’s get right into the details.
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory from 3a-12p for all of the region to account for the sleet and freezing rain situation we’ll deal with late tonight into the first half of Tuesday. We still expect significant travel issues and overall impacts to the Tuesday morning commute.
Forecast radar shows freezing rain spreading into the region between 3 and 4am.
Light freezing rain and freezing drizzle will continue for the better part of the morning hours as temperatures likely won’t climb above freezing until early Tuesday afternoon, especially from Indianapolis and points northeast.
Forecast temperatures at 12p Tuesday.
We still don’t anticipate many big time flooding concerns as a.) temperatures won’t warm all that much (we MAY reach 40 Tuesday evening, but that’s a big question mark) and b.) most of the heavy rain will remain south of central Indiana.
Here’s expected liquid-equivalent totals through Wednesday morning.
The next concern is the threat of accumulating snow for central and southern portions of the state Wednesday afternoon through Thursday morning. Arctic high pressure will limit the northern extent of significant precipitation, but, as mentioned previously, energy rounding the base of the trough will ignite another wave of low pressure to move along the pressing arctic front. As of now, we target areas along and south of the I-70 corridor most under the gun for a potentially impactful snow storm Wednesday afternoon into early Thursday morning.
The individual GFS ensemble members have also been trending north and overall more excited about snow prospects, as well.
The other item on the agenda is a shot of record cold in here for late week. Sub-zero lows are a good bet by Friday morning. Highs Thursday will push for a new record low maximum temperature.
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Mar 02
We continue to be very concerned about the likelihood of an icing event across central Indiana late tonight into early Tuesday afternoon. A significant snowpack in place won’t allow temperatures…
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Mar 01
It was a record snowfall officially at IND where a storm total of 7.9″ was recorded (5.9″ accumulated since midnight). Many other 8″ type amounts are common throughout the heart of central Indiana- including right here at the IndyWx.com HQ. Yours truly ventured out through the village of Zionsville this afternoon. Simply beautiful!
We have a busy weather week upcoming and wanted to touch base on a few items of note:
1.) Freezing rain and potential slick travel will be possible very late Monday night into Tuesday morning. Moisture will attack from the southwest and run into an impressive snowpack currently in place across central Indiana. Despite warmer air moving in aloft, surface temperatures will remain cold enough through late Tuesday morning to allow precipitation to fall in the form of sleet and freezing rain Tuesday morning. It appears as if enough freezing rain could accumulate to result in slick travel throughout the region. While temperatures will “warm” into the lower 40s Tuesday afternoon, this is a far cry from the lower 50s modeling tried to suggest a few days ago. Furthermore, cold air will quickly rush back in here Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.
2.) Accumulating snow threat for the southern half of the state Wednesday into Thursday. Additional “energy” will round the base of a digging trough over the southern and central Plains states Wednesday. This will help ignite a surface low along the front and temporarily lead to the front stalling out just to our south and east. It’ll be close as to just how far north the accumulating snow shield makes it across southern and central Indiana, but will require a close eye in the coming day or two. We note some of our more reliable modeling placing central and southern portions of the state “under fire” for additional accumulating snow.
3.) Serious and potentially record cold returns this week. Yet ANOTHER blast of bitterly cold air will plunge into the area Wednesday night into Thursday. With snow on the ground, it’s possible this direct discharge of arctic air is even colder than what some data might suggest at this time. As it is already, we think some central Hoosier neighborhoods deal with sub-zero air in the Thursday/ Friday morning time frame. Thursday’s high will only manage to climb into the teens across the region. (Keep in mind the average low is 28 and average high is 45). Just amazing stuff!
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Mar 01
Impressive Snowstorm…Heavy snowfall rates are occurring within localized bands through central and north-central Indiana as we type this. Within those bands, expect an additional 1″-2″ today. That’s on top of widespread 6″ to 7″ reports throughout the region. (By the way- thank you so much for your snowfall reports and photos)! We love to see them!
Outside of the heavy snow bands, a general light snow will begin to diminish by late afternoon/ early evening as drier air moves in behind a cold front. Colder air will also roll into town tonight and Monday.
Our next storm will provide a wintry mix of sleet, snow, and freezing rain Tuesday morning before transitioning to rain. That said, data that suggested we would see 50 degree+ highs Tuesday are finally coming to the realization we have quite the snowpack across the area. We’ll rise into the lower 40s, but cold air will rush right back in here Tuesday night and Wednesday and potentially set us up for a very interesting mid week period.
For now model data ranges between a significant winter storm to simply dry and bitterly cold. We’ll split the difference for now and maintain mention of snow in our Wednesday forecast as secondary energy develops a wave of low pressure along the pressing front. Does that winter storm impact the Ohio Valley or areas of the Deep South? We’ll continue to sort through the details. I will say the UKMET has been most consistent of our forecast models over the past several weeks, and it’s quite bullish on the Ohio Valley winter storm scenario. Never a dull moment around these parts…
Regardless of what happens Wednesday, fresh bitter cold air will pour in here to wrap up the work week.
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