A cold, damp weekend will keep planters stalled across the Hoosier state. That from HAT Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin in the Seed Genetics Direct Planting Weather Forecast.
Martin’s forecast calls for a couple waves of moisture with the biggest one coming Friday across Indiana.
“We have a secondary round of moisture that comes in from late Saturday afternoon through Sunday. That could give us an additional anywhere from a tenth to half an inch of moisture across 60% of the Hoosier state. That second wave is going to be more impressive with the cold air that it brings to finish the weekend over late Sunday afternoon and to start off next week.”
Temperatures can be as much as 10° to 15° below normal as we move from Sunday afternoon through Tuesday.
“Adding insult to injury, a large upper level low just sits over the Great Lakes. We’re going to be seeing circulation around that low through Monday and Tuesday. It’ll be all clouds, and we’re seeing moisture. So, spits, sprinkles, and wet snowflakes. The biggest amount of moisture may actually end up working its way in here overnight Monday night through Tuesday, where we can see an additional two to three tenths of moisture. Either way, we’re definitely not drying, and soil temperatures are not going anywhere Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.”
Martin says temperatures will moderate Thursday and Friday next week while also staying dry.
“I think we see decent evaporation those days. And, in a new wrinkle, we’re keeping the following weekend, the 6th and the 7th, also dry. Now, we’re seeing cooler air trying to back into Indiana and even Ohio a little bit, but it’s doing so with no additional moisture. So, we could stream together now a four-to-five-day dry stretch from Wednesday through next Sunday. And when we look back off to the west, we’re seeing limited action out there either, so we can see maybe an extended dry stretch in there into the following week.”
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