RAIN ON THE WAY
Our dry pattern over the last two months is about to flip as we open up the Gulf of Mexico for business with each passing storm system. Our first round of rain arrives Wednesday night into the first half of Halloween day. The next round arrives later this weekend with next week looking RAINY at this point with a series of low pressure systems that roll through the Region. We could use every drop with on on-going drought in the Midwest and Great Lakes! Take a look at the rainfall potential through the end of next week:
Good Friday morning everyone! We have a weakening area of showers and storms moving in from the northwest this morning. All of this is along and ahead of a cold front that will reinforce our beautiful Fall weather this weekend. Expect this area of clouds and leftover rain to quickly move through with sunshine returning by afternoon. We'll be near 70 for a high today!
WILDFIRE SMOKE RETURNS
That atmospheric smoke is back in our Indiana skies! Wildfires burning from Nevada to Oregon into Idaho are putting out tremendous amounts of smoke. This smoke rises and becomes lofted into the atmosphere--well above the surface. The jetstream then blows this atmospheric smoke all around the eastern US depending on the wind direction. As this smoke passes over the Region, it creates a sky that's not blue, but white and if it's thick enough the sky becomes a whitish gray. These aren't clouds, but rather smoke--and it looks to stick with us for much of the upcoming week!
Everything is going as forecast this morning as we'll see on and off rain continuing to move in this morning from leftover overnight storms to our west. This on and off rain will continue through midday before we quiet down heading into the afternoon. We're still not expecting any severe weather with this morning round.
Attention then turns towards redeveloping storms late this afternoon into the evening that will roll through the Region either late this evening or into the overnight hours. These are the storms we continue to think could be strong to severe locally with all modes of severe weather possible.
Everything is going as forecast this morning as we'll see on and off rain continuing to move in this morning from leftover overnight storms to our west. This on and off rain will continue through midday before we quiet down heading into the afternoon. We're still not expecting any severe weather with this morning round.
Attention then turns towards redeveloping storms late this afternoon into the evening that will roll through the Region either late this evening or into the overnight hours. These are the storms we continue to think could be strong to severe locally with all modes of severe weather possible.
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Good Monday morning everyone! If you joined us for our live broadcast last night, everything is going as planned this morning. A large complex of storms continues to sink to the southeast and we'll deal with some of the leftover rain on the northern end that will be diminishing in coverage. The severe weather threat this morning is zero--just some rain.
Attention then turns towards that "swirl" you see in southern Wisconsin. Depending on how much our atmosphere recovers today (think sunshine, humidity, etc.) we'll see showers and storms redevelop this afternoon across Indiana--some of which could be strong to severe. I'm still favoring the highest severe weather potential being south of us--but some models indicate it may be close to us. Bottom-line, we'll have to keep a close eye on the radar later today into this evening and we'll be doing that for you!
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We need some quiet weather so we can clean up the mess last night's storms left and we'll get it. The cold front isn't through yet and we'll still run the risk of a few pop-up showers or storms, but most hours should be dry today into tonight. The cold front will then move through bringing MUCH more comfortable air with days of sunshine and dry weather on the way through the weekend!
Good Wednesday morning to you everyone--after a rainy night that trend will continue through our Wednesday morning as we'll now be on the backside of the remnants of Beryl. Rainfall amounts vary widely across the Region with anywhere from 1.5 inches up to over 4 inches of localized rain here in the Region. Northwestern Lake County has received the most with that Flash Flood Warning that was issued yesterday, but another area of heavy rain fell in a line from Newton to Jasper to Starke counties where 1.5 to 3.5 inches of rain has fallen.
Our other issue this morning is that we'll have gusty winds as this low deepens to our north. Lake Michigan will become quite disturbed with 6-8 footers expected. We could have wind gusts over 40 mph at times as this low pulls away.
A large line of strong to severe storms continues to sink south towards the Region and will bring very heavy rainfall, pockets of damaging winds and frequent lightning through the Region this morning. These storms are REALLY putting down the rainfall in a hurry! The line is getting into Chicago now so we'll track it into NWI around 8am and it will likely last through 10am or so. There are some signs that we see more storms redevelop on the backside of this through the rest of the day--but that remains to be seen--we'll focus on getting us through this initial line of strong storms first.
A large dome of heat out in the desert southwest will eventually push our way as a trough builds in the northwestern US. This will push some heat our way with the first taste of warmth on Wednesday and Thursday with highs in the upper 80s to low 90s. We'll back temps off a bit Friday into Saturday before the ridge really builds over the eastern US. Temps well into the 90s are possible from Father's Day into the beginning of next week and that will come with tropical humidity as well.
