The planting window was only open for half the state last week, but Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin says this planting window is wide open for all Hoosiers. His forecast is presented by Beacon Credit Union.
Martin says the entirety of the state is sitting under a high-pressure dome, which will bring ideal conditions for fieldwork.
“And this dominant high-pressure dome is going to hold all the way through the rest of this week, through the weekend, and through a large part of next week. We do not see this upper-level high breaking down until a frontal complex starts to work in next Friday, June 5th. That means from now through Thursday the 4th, we can look for temperatures normal to above normal, a little bit of an increase in humidity, but excellent dry down and evaporation rates.”
Looking ahead to Friday, the 5th, Martin is calling for two different systems to work through. A low-pressure system will head up from the south and into the Ohio Valley.
“That will trigger some rain from I-70 southward where we could see some strong thunderstorms. There might be a little bit of a tropical flow in this, but I don’t think it’s anything to watch big time. And then, the other side of it is going to be a frontal boundary that tries to come through the upper Midwest right behind that. So, I think for Friday the 5th, through Saturday the 6th, and into early Sunday the 7th, we have to keep the door open to a few hit-and-miss showers. Again, mostly over the southern half of Indiana. Northern locations are not nearly as wet.”
Martin’s forecast has dry weather back to start the week of the 8th, “but we do see some hit-and-miss scattered showers developing by midweek before another round of drier air tries to funnel in for the 11th, 12th, and 13th. So, we’re definitely seeing below normal precipitation on average for the next two weeks.”
Find more forecast details later Friday at hoosieragtoday.com presented by Beacon Credit Union.
