4/7 - 7:30pm - Spring is Returning!

You may think that the title for this blog entry is misleading based on the fact that we're under a Freeze WARNING tonight, but it really will begin warming up starting tomorrow. After a low around freezing tonight, we'll top out around 60 tomorrow with a few morning sprinkles possible. Rounds of thunderstorms look likely starting late Thursday afternoon and continuing until Friday evening, with highs in the lower 60's for both days.

The weekend looks great, with lower 60's on Saturday and mid 60's on Sunday. Easter egg hunts shouldn't have any weather problems with sunny skies sticking around. Rain comes back into the area for early next week as low pressure moves into the area.

Thundersnow? In the middle of April!? That's right, early this morning a band of snow showers between Crawford County, IN and Hardin County, KY became convective and started putting down heavy snow. Lightning and thunder was reported in Brandenburg.


(Notice the yellow areas on this radar snapshot this morning... thundersnow!)

For complete analysis of this morning's thundersnow, head on over to Louisville's National Weather Service website where they have a write-up on this wacky event.

3/8 - 9:30am - It's not done yet!

Just amazing... 8 inches at my house right now with some areas of Jefferson County reporting up to a foot. It's still snowing really hard, and we're expected to receive another 2-3 inches this morning.

Many counties in S. Indiana are under a state of emergency right now and asking residents not to even go out.

What caused all of this was a classic case of a banding snowstorm last night. What happens is that thunderstorms from down south drift north in bands and then start producing snow when they hit the cold air, producing thunder snow (which we had a lot of last night). We've just been slammed by band after band since the first one came through at 11:30pm last night.

We're on the tail end of it now, so it should stop at around 11am unless any new bands form. This is already as bad as Dec. 2004 in Louisville, and we're not done yet!