Hello everyone! I am back for the summer from Valpo, so hopefully updates will be a little more frequent and timely. So far May hasn't been real warm. We saw accumulating snow just a couple of weeks ago! The entire state is actually running 4-10 degrees below average. This looks to change soon... Here are the Climate Prediction Center's 6-10 and 8-14 day loutlooks through the end of the month. Thus is due to ridging developing in the western US. This is a high pressure system that can bring relatively cal, but warm and dry conditions especially during the summer If you are going to the Indy 500, the forecast right now is for mostly cloudy skies and temps in the 70s at the moment. I'll update the race day forecast as we get closer to memorial day weekend. We enter June with the heat ridge just to our west. These ridges tend to move around and can introduce what is called a "ring of fire" pattern. This is when clusters of rain and thunderstorms develop and ride along the top of a ridge from the west. Now a few short thought s on the summer. Its looks like a hot and dry pattern will develop. This may the type of summer when we really will want those ring of fire patterns when we can get them. Here is one final graphic. It is a comparison of the US drought monitor from early this month and the same time period in 2012. This is certainly a concern with the forecasted persistent ridging possibly present .
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