1-16-18 Northern Indiana Forecast Update: Targeting heavy lake effect snowfall into Wed AM…pattern eases with a warm-up into the weekend. K.

Synopsis: Good Tuesday morning! The primary focus over the next 24 hours will be targeting the lake effect snow band moving slowly west to east throughout the day. We start across Lake/Newton Counties and slowly drift east throughout the morning and early afternoon. At times, 1-2″/hr snowfall rates expected, whiteout conditions possible with vis <0.25mil, blowing and drifting snow with gusts up to 20-25mph also possible so slick spots can’t be ruled out. The band will greatly weaken by the time it bleeds east into the Ft. Wayne district locations late tonight into early Wed AM with a light dusting possible. Beyond today we see a relax in the pattern into the weekend with our next targeted precipitation coming late Saturday into Sunday as a warm front and low pressure system move into the Ohio Valley bringing rain even thunderstorms possible into early next week. We warm up the second half of the week into the weekend as well with 50s possible into the weekend! If you have any questions please let us know, we will monitor the lake effect snow band and update as needed. Have a blessed day! -Kirk

Today’s video: 

Updated official accumulating snowfall map this morning…the heaviest band we believe sets up across northeast Porter, LaPorte, Starke, western St. Joe, western Marshall into parts of northern Fulton and Pulaski Counties: