MORE SNOW AND ARCTIC ATTACKS

Good evening.  I am tracking more snow on the way to the Hoosier state tomorrow night into Saturday, and another major blast of frigid air straight out of the North Pole for early next week.  Could rival the coldest of the winter so far!  In the meantime, another brutal night with below zero temps yet again.  

Tomorrow will be another frigid day, but not as cold as today.  Highs should reach the upper teens to lower 20's.  Warning though, the winds will really crank up with gusts up to 35 mph.  Wind chills through the day will be brutal, so it will probably not feel any warmer. 

The weather quickly goes downhill later tomorrow night.  An Alberta clipper will race down into the state, and bring a widespread swath of snow.  Timing on this appears to be after midnight through about mid-morning Saturday.  Winds could gust over 35 mph at times and will produce white-out conditions.  Bottom line, travel will be hazardous!  Posted below is the NAM for early Saturday morning.  You can see widespread precipitation moving through the state.  

So now you ask, how much snow?  In general, a 1-3" swath looks likely for a lot of areas.  Similar to the last several clippers, there will once again be a sharp cut-off in far southwest portions of Indiana.  Isolated locations in central and northern Indiana could get up to 4".  Posted below is my snowfall map:

Another clipper expected to affect parts of the state on Sunday.  The set-up will create a huge temperature gradient from north to south.  There could literally be almost a 30 degree temperature difference, from low 20's in Angola (northeast Indiana) to upper 40's in Evansville (southwest Indiana).  So at least most of us along and south of I-70 could see a brief period of milder air.  Right now, it appears 2-4" of snow could north of Indianapolis during the day Sunday, with a sharp cut-off south of I-70.  I will fine tune that forecast once tomorrow night's system is out of the picture.  

A MAJOR arctic blast arrives for next week.  This could be the coldest of the winter!  Remember the -15 back on January 7th in Indy?  I think it could get a touch colder than that with this next blast.  Very harsh winter pattern just keeps rolling.  Thanks for reading.  Stay warm!!