Time passages. The signs are everywhere. The sunrise doesn’t come until exactly 7am tomorrow, school buses are back on my street, and the Colts are back on TV. Our immediate weather news is the passage of a cold front that will happen sometime this evening. In front of the front: another warm day. In fact, […]
It was a DRY heat. Thursday afternoon’s relative humidity at Indianapolis was in the teens. That was lower than Vegas, baby. VEGAS! The city in the desert is going to 103 today. We’re “only” getting to the mid 90s. But it won’t be a dry heat anymore. Higher dew points are pushing in from the […]
Areas of damaging wind gusts and frequent lightning are likely today across southern Indiana. A cold front will move in, slicing through plenty of moisture and instability. The atmosphere above the surface will also get a kick from a wave of low pressure. This all points to precipitation. Heavy downpours of rain are possible. Indianapolis […]
Hello, one hundred! The Summer Of The Century (Mark) marches on today, with a chance of triple digits in west central Indiana. That looks to be the axis of biggest afternoon highs. Not that Indy will be far behind. I’m forecasting 98, which will be the 36th 90+ day of the Summer of 2012 in […]
People sometimes say to me that it’s great to be a weather guesser. “What other job can you keep even when you’re wrong?” How much time do you have? Economist, NBA Ref, those exit pollers in Wisconsin… Speaking of them, in a political year you sometimes hear about the “margin of error” when it comes […]
Ladies and gentlemen: don’t start your lawn mower engines! At least, not until after 6pm. And you’re supposed to also put off gassing up until after sunset. All because today is the first “Knozone Action Day” of the season for Indianapolis. The promise of higher temperatures and fairly light winds today are expected to produce […]
Clear, calm, and cool. That’s how Friday started. The overnight weather map showed an area of high pressure right on top of Lafayette, cruising slowly to the east. Today’s winds will shift to the south behind that high, helping to throw another approximately five degrees on the temperature fire. There were some 30s again, early […]
AFTERNOON UPDATE: I’m removing the slight chance of storms from the Saturday afternoon forecast, with the exception of the southern quarter of the state, including Evansville. ORIGINAL STORY: Timing is everything in the Mini-Marathon, and in weather. Thunderstorms made a run on Indianapolis just ten hours prior to the Race’s start time. Wind damage was […]
POST-RACE UPDATE: Dew point temperatures ranged from 62-66 (pretty muggy) and winds ranged from 5-10mph. Fog and clouds gave way to partly sunny conditions. Temperatures: 7am 63 | 8am 65 | 9am 68 | 10am 71 (yellow flag comes out) | 11am 74 (ORIGINAL STORY) Expect a muggy Mini-Marathon today. If you’re running, you won’t […]
Think of today as a “60s sandwich” in between the 75 degree high of Wednesday and the expected high of 72 Friday. It will be nice again today, but it won’t be as warm or as windy in Indy. The breeze will be about 10mph from the northeast. The peak wind gust yesterday was 38mph […]
Here’s a look at high temps around the country, and here’s a look at ’em around the state: A front is stalled to the west of us today, keeping the hotter more humid air bottled up. But it will roll over Indiana again tomorrow, and the dew points will get depressing again.
