More than three-quarters of an inch fell in Indianapolis Thursday evening. Storms brought wind gusts of 51mph in Terre Haute and 53 mph in Bloomington. Trees weredowned in Knox, Greene, Monroe, Jackson, and Tippecanoe counties. Heavy rain soaked Spencer in Owen county, where 3.30 inches was reported. Golf ball size hail (1.75″ diameter) fell in […]
Indiana’s Weather For Friday
Can you see the forest for the trees? The latest US Drought Monitor still shows the state in a state of drought, but the picture has improved again from a week ago. Once we’re out of the forest, we *may* look back at August as the turning point in an overall warm and dry pattern. […]
Southwest Indiana Soaked Again
Storms Thursday night in southern Indiana racked up big precipitation totals. Click here for the full size radar rain analysis.. Evansville’s Airport measured 2.31 inches. Most of that came in one hour. That’s the biggest one-day total in Evansville this year. It was almost as much as the city got the entire month of July, […]
June 2008’s Nasty Indiana Weather
I think it was the great 70s weather philosopher Roseanne Roseannadanna who said: “it’s always something.” At the moment we’re worried about air quality and grass fires. Four years ago today Indiana was reeling from two weeks of anything but dry weather. Check out this 2008 recap: May 30, 2008: Three twisters…an EF-2 from Marion […]
Indiana’s Weather For Saturday
Summertime sunshine for much of your time off, with at least the prospect of precipitation looming large as the weekend ends. Does it get any better than this? Humidity will start increasing a little Sunday morning, and clouds will start increasing a little Sunday afternoon. Rain chances return after midnight Sunday night. At the moment, […]
Indiana’s Weather For Monday
Hello from the front line! Let’s synchronize our weather maps: A cold front went through Sunday night, comes back as a warm front early Tuesday morning, and is ultimately swept aside by a cold front Tuesday night. That means a lot of temperature swings. Speaking of swings, how’s your game? Sunday was one of those […]