September 17-18

While my rain gauge has picked 0.31" since Tuesday evening, there are places from White Co eastward to Wells Co that has picked up 5"-9" of rain.  Flood warnings for some of those counties remain up until Friday at 10 am.  Flood watch is in effect for much of central, east-central and a portion of southeastern Indiana through Friday at 10 am.  There will be storms that develop overnight tonight and sink southward.  The current thinking is these storms will form along a boundary that will be sinking south along a Lafayette to Frankfort to Tipton to Muncie line.  Storms have the ability to produce damaging winds and very heavy rainfall.  North of where that storm front stalls then fades will be cooler on Friday, but still humid.  There should be a warm front pushing north on Saturday returning storm chances, added heat and humidity.  I still think there will be some big temperature swings from the northern counties to the south.  Storm chances should end Monday, but there will be an ongoing chance for some showers through Tuesday.  RELIEF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE HEAT AND HUMIDITY IS COMING!  Look for a noticeable cool down beginning on Monday --- but you will really feel it by Wednesday!  There still looks to be a warm up as we get to the end of the month...before the coolest air of the season arrives sometime around October 3/4th.  No frost this month -- but we may open October with some frost on the pumpkins!