You can definitely feel the difference the sun is making today in Central Indiana with temperatures returning to the mid and upper 80s and 10 to 15 degrees warm than 24 hours ago.
It will be a warm evening at Victory Field for Indianapolis Indians baseball and only a slight storm chance heading into tonight.
We’re monitoring a storm complex in southern Iowa and widely scattered storms across Illinois. These should stay west of the metro area but could impact western and southwestern Indiana late evening and tonight.
Muggy temperatures in the 70s with a light wind leads to more areas of dense fog Wednesday morning.
Temperatures rapidly jump into the 80s by noon Wednesday and near 90 degrees to finish the day with a chance of storms.
There will be considerably more dry weather than storms the next 24 hours, but we’re certainly not ruling out locally heavy storms the next few days with Central Indiana being on the edge of the “hot dome” centered in the Central U.S.
In the core of the “hot dome” the atmosphere has a lid over it to suppress storm development… much like the lid over a boiling pot of water on the stove. But around the “lid” storms erupt, like steam from the boiling pot of water, in highly unstable, moist air to deliver quite a punch as they track east-southeast. We call these storms Ridge Riders as they go up and over the center of upper ridging in the jet stream.
Heat Warnings/Watches/Advisories to our west likely expand into Central Indiana with expected heat indices peaking out in the 105 to 110 range Friday into Sunday afternoon.
If our forecast highs verify… it would mark the first time since the summer of 2012 Indianapolis has had four consecutive days of highs at/above 93 degrees.
This will make it one of the hottest Brickyard 400 weekends ever in Indy and demands the attention of anyone expecting to spends long spells outside. Stay tuned for updates and thanks for reading the forecast – Sean Ash