Good Tuesday Morning! Below is your latest forecast update:
We have likely already seen our high temp for the day, temps will continue to fall through the next several hours with temps likely falling the most during the 8-10 AM ET hours. Here is a look at sim temps from 7 AM to 9 PM ET, each frame is one hour:
Below is a look at sim radar from 7 AM ET today through 7 PM. We think there will be scattered showers this morning in an on/off nature with the best chance at seeing more widespread rain showers coming in the early to mid afternoon:
As we work later into the evening/ overnight, we are going to have to watch for the potential of seeing some wintry mix as temps look to be 30-32 F across the area and some slick spots could develop on untreated surfaces:
Area we are currently favoring to see the highest elevated threat of slick spot potential tonight starting around ~11 PM ET tonight for the Indy metro through sunrise Wednesday:
Sim radar from 4 PM ET Wednesday through 5 AM ET Thursday morning. We are going to have to watch this forecast very closely because freezing rain is very tricky to forecast and a degree or two can make a big difference in precip type:
Latest favored snowfall totals associated with this system- check out the video for latest details but we do not anticipate snow to be a primary concern for Indy:
Current favored thinking on light ice potential because we do think there will be a skinny band of freezing rain that sets up with this system. Freezing rain totals have the least amount of confidence in this forecast as they are very hard to forecast:
Winds panel over the next 4 days:
Temperature chart over the next 10 days:
Indianapolis:
