Monday, March 9, 2009

3/9 - 5:15pm - Showers Tonight, Storms Tomorrow Night

Here's the latest on tomorrow night's severe situation from the SPC:



We're only in a 5% risk area for severe storms tomorrow due to the late-night passage of the cold front. Storms should fire over Missouri in the evening, but they'll weaken before they hit us during the overnight hours of Tuesday into Wednesday. There could be some strong storms with high wind around here tomorrow night, but I don't expect much severe weather, if any, at this time.

Looking at the radar, I think we'll have a slight chance of a shower tonight as a system out in Missouri heads northward, but no appreciable rain. Tomorrow's forecast is simply spectacular, with temperatures hitting 80 degrees if the sun comes out. It's unclear right now if we'll have cloud cover all-day tomorrow, but if we do, expect temperatures only to top out in the lower 70's instead. Rain shouldn't pose an issue until the late-night hours of Tuesday, but winds could gust up to 30mph throughout the day.

The cold front coming through generating the storms tomorrow night will cool our temperatures down considerably for the rest of this week. We'll sink down to 50 for Wednesday and slump into the 40's for Thursday and Friday, but temperatures should recover back into the 50's for the weekend.

The National Weather Service in Indianapolis has completed their survey of damage caused by the storms in Southern Indiana yesterday. They concluded that an EF3 tornado hit Fayetteville, IN and that an EF0 tornado hit areas near Bedford, IN yesterday, together destroying 3 homes and damaging 19. For more details, click here.

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