Wet Saturday, Dry Sunday

Good Saturday folks! After a long hiatus, I have returned to give you all a weather forecast. Sorry, everyone has been missing out one from me all year. Time just has not been on my side all year working a lot of hours prepare myself for things to come in my future. In the meantime, I'm still here for just a while longer so here's my next weather blog that is way overdue. As your pumpkin flavored favorite food and drinks are available for order at Starbucks and Halloween candy/decorations are stocked on store shelves, its obvious the Fall season is here. While it scientifically, doesn't begin for another few days, you can already see the changes arriving with the weather pattern. Earlier this week, dare I say it, SNOW fell out west in the Rocky Mountains. I saw images circulating around from Yellowstone Park in Wyoming. Here's a few pics including a few videos a few people took, including one where bisons cross the road cutting drivers off from getting to their destinations...

Yellowstone's first snow of the year! We are lucky :) #初雪 #yellowstonenationalpark #grandprismaticspring #hotspring #firstsnow #itsnotwinter #summer #ctcleetravel #travelusa #nature #travel #travelgram #wyoming #snowstorm

A video posted by @cherryfrut on Sep 12, 2016 at 10:08am PDT

09.12.16 🚦 let me cut you off. #bison #YellowstoneNationalPark #Wyoming #NPS100

A video posted by hello. (@sheenuts) on Sep 12, 2016 at 11:01pm PDT

No snow expected here. In fact, the earliest date of the first fall season (measurable) snow event to happen in Indianapolis, Indiana was recorded on October 18, 1989. Which means, its after this date is when we normally start scraping snows off our cars so we still have, at the very least, another 5 weeks to enjoy the sight of the pavement on the roads. In the extreme, the pavement or grass, likely will not go more than another 13 weeks without some snow covered on it. The latest date we had to wait for our 1st measurable snow event was December 21, 1998.

Enough talk about snow for now, there will be plenty of more time for that in the weeks and months ahead. For now, lets talk about our current weather across the Hoosier state. We are waiting for the passing of a cold front, until then, weather remains unsettled with rain in the forecast through out the day today. Some gaps of dry weather is expected for Saturday afternoon and evening but the day looks to remain gloomy with clouds overhead.After the front passes, clearing skies arrive on Sunday with sunny conditions extending into Monday. Temps will remain comfortable with morning lows in the upper 50s to lower 60s and highs in the lower 80s. As we get towards the tail end of the next week, moisture will be high so it'll be a little uncomfortable again with temps in the mid to upper 80s. A very strong push of cold air is on its heels and when it interacts with the warm saturated air, it will bring our next round of storms along with a big drop in temps. The month of September will close with the coldest air of the season so far. Coolest since mid May with highs possibly below 70 and lows below 50.