Abnormally dry conditions are still lingering in parts of Indiana (Figure 1) with interest growing on how much the warmer weather might exacerbate the situation.
Beth Hall
It seems the weather pattern may have shifted toward wetter conditions. Over the past week, Indiana has received over an inch of rain and the 7-day forecast is predicting at least another inch (Figure 1) in the central and southern parts of the state.
Last week, the topic around Indiana was the snow event in April. This week started off with above normal temperatures followed by significant rainfall.
This week, much of Indiana got to see some snow falling as we were hoping that winter weather was behind us.
Just when we thought we were done wearing sweaters and using our furnaces, Mother Nature decided to throw us a curve ball.
March wrapped up as one of Indiana’s wettest (44th wettest out of 126 years) and warmest (16th warmest).
Overnight low temperatures the morning of October 16th reached into the low 30s (Fahrenheit), bringing an end to the growing season for a lot of vegetation across Indiana (Figure 1).
September was dry across Indiana with some counties being the driest on record since 1895 (Figure 1).
Abnormally dry/drought conditions continue across most of Indiana.
