We have a major weather event coming through this weekend that will change the recent weather pattern. In his Harvest Weather Forecast, presented each week by Beacon Credit Union, HAT Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin says Friday will finish out mostly dry with some cloud cover in Northern Indiana as a disturbance rolls through Michigan with little to no precipitation.
“I think clouds then thicken through the day on Saturday before showers and thunderstorms work through. They’ll come in earlier in northwest and north central parts of Indiana, funneling through the rest of the state through Saturday night and then Sunday. All in, all done, we’ll see quarter to one-and-a-half-inch rainfall totals with coverage at 100% of the Hoosier State. This will be a big rain event, and there is a threat of some severe weather, especially farther down state.”
Behind the frontal passage, Martin says we’ll start to clear out through Sunday night.
“Monday, at this point, is turning out partly to mostly sunny, but then we’ve got a second little wave that comes through. I don’t want to say it’s part of the same system, but it is following in the same footsteps, coming out of the western part of the Corn Belt, ripping through very quickly. This one will have a little bit of moisture with it, probably a few hundredths to a few tenths with coverage only about 60% of the Hoosier State. What it does is draw down some cooler temperatures for the rest of the week.”
And we’ll see those cooler temperatures on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
“I think we have good rounds of frost that can happen at least at some point in that window. A reinforcing shot of cold air comes down for the weekend and into the first part of next week. We need to reiterate, this is not a brutally cold stretch. It is just a far cry from what we’ve become used to here over the past three or four weeks.”
Martin says the next big chance for moisture after this weekend could come as we turn the calendar from October to November.
