Expect a period of showers and thunderstorms today, mainly midday hours from 10a-3p around Indy. It could extend into late afternoon around Richmond and Muncie. The chance is slight for scattered storms by late afternoon and evening. Humidity won’t be too bad in the morning, but it will increase by afternoon as a warm front approaches. No severe weather is expected today.
Severe weather is a possibility tomorrow as the first of two cold front arrives. The biggest threat Sunday will be in the midday and afternoon hours. The atmosphere should again relax Sunday night, before reloading for storms Monday afternoon and evening with cold front number two. Severe weather should stay to the south of central Indiana Monday.
Unseasonably cool air follows the fronts for Tuesday and Wednesday. Nighttime lows will be in the 50s and highs will be in the 70s. We would need to take it down another notch into the 40s to break a record, but it will continue our trend for the month so far. Indianapolis is running 4.6 degrees below average.
Expect a period of showers and thunderstorms today, mainly midday hours from 10a-3p around Indy. It could extend into late afternoon around Richmond and Muncie. The chance is slight for scattered storms by late afternoon and evening. Humidity won’t be too bad in the morning, but it will increase by afternoon as a warm front approaches. No severe weather is expected today.
Severe weather is a possibility tomorrow as the first of two cold front arrives. The biggest threat Sunday will be in the midday and afternoon hours. The atmosphere should again relax Sunday night, before reloading for storms Monday afternoon and evening with cold front number two. Severe weather should stay to the south of central Indiana Monday.
Unseasonably cool air follows the fronts for Tuesday and Wednesday. Nighttime lows will be in the 50s and highs will be in the 70s. We would need to take it down another notch into the 40s to break a record, but it will continue our trend for the month so far. Indianapolis is running 4.6 degrees below average.
Is it a Polar Vortex? There is disagreement among meteorologists. It doesn’t seem to fit the accepted definition with regard to scale – either in a vertical (into the stratosphere) or horizontal sense. But the plain-old-not-media-hyped jet stream *is* unusually wavy for July, and a deep trough within it will bring unseasonably cold temperatures to a good chunk of the country for the first half of the work week.
P.S. If you’re looking for a hook to hang this atmospheric anomaly upon – try a Typhoon! Neoguri has weakened since hitting Japan, but certainly affected the path of the jet stream.
INDY ALMANAC:
The average high today is 85 and the average low is 66. Records are 103 and 53. The sun rises at 6:28 and sets at 9:14.
PAUL’S PREVIOUS PREDICTION:
Yesterday’s high was 81. My forecast was 83.
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