Highlights:

• Periods of showers and storms through mid week
• Can’t shake weekend storm chances, but drier, and turning hot
• Scattered storms return early next week

A frontal boundary will slip south of central IN later this evening and take most of the heavy rain and storms south tonight into a good chunk of Wednesday.  However, the boundary will return north Wednesday evening in response to an area of surface low pressure moving northeast out of the lower and middle MS River Valley.  This will return the focus of showers and heavier thunderstorms for our region Wednesday evening into the first half of Thursday.  Similar to that of today, locally heavy rainfall is a good bet at times.

The area of low pressure will track east Thursday afternoon and take most of the moisture with it.  We’ll forecast drier times to wrap up the work week along with rising temperatures.  While we can’t shake weekend storm chances, Friday through Sunday will be drier, overall, when compared to the next couple days.  With the heat and humidity around, a few strong to severe storms are possible- particularly Sunday afternoon.  We’ll keep an eye on things.

Scattered, “splash and dash,” coverage of storms returns early next week.

Upcoming 7-Day Rainfall Forecast: 2″ – 2.5″