MORE HEAT, SMALL STORM CHANCES!

Well, so much for forecasting rain this weekend! Most areas missed out AGAIN, with only a few lucky ones. While much of the area missed out on the rain, a few did luck out. Parts of southern Indiana picked up a half-inch or so of rain yesterday, along with isolated pockets of heavy rain in north-central Indiana. Here is a map of today's accumulated rainfall. Notice how isolated the rain was!

A ridge of high pressure will build in over the next few days, bringing in more sunshine, and scorching temps surging close to 100 (again)! This summer's temperatures have been nothing short of incredible. It's not often that you go through weeks and weeks of temps in the 90's & 100's! The bone dry conditions is only helping bring these hot temps! We hit 95 today under high humidity, I think we will be in the range of 94-98 tomorrow, then 97-101 on Tuesday. Parts of southern Indiana may not get quite as hot where there is a slightly better chance of a few pop-up storms, but the heat will be the MAIN story. With the ridge positioned so far north, 100 degree heat could very close to the Canadian border this week!

A front will move in Wednesday/Thursday, bringing with it the next best chance of rain. Here is the GFS during this time-frame, likely WAY overdone...

That front may get hung-up somewhere near the Ohio River for the end of the week and weekend, so if that is the case, we could have at least a chance of storms Friday through next weekend, but southern Indiana would be most likely to get these storms.

Stay tuned for updates on the chance of mid-week storms. Hopefully we will get some rain. *Saying it very optimistically*

On another note, we will be adding plenty more 90+ days to the summer through the coming week. We are already WAY above average for the ENTIRE summer, and it's only mid-July. I believe the most ever was 58 days, (forget when that was set). We have 29 so far, (average is 18 for the whole summer). The way it's going, this could be the hottest summer ever for Indy. 2012 is already the warmest year EVER so far in Indiana. 

Thanks for stopping by the blog. You know the drill by now, stay cool!