Rainy end to the week with flooding concerns

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — We’re monitoring two important rounds of heavy rain forward for the rest of the workweek which is able to increase issues for flooding.

A Flood Watch will probably be in impact from 8 PM EST Thursday to eight AM EST Saturday morning.

Thursday evening: A moist evening is anticipated with the primary of two rounds of heavy rain creating alongside and south of interstate 70. This exercise will proceed into Friday.

There stays a low risk for robust/extreme storms till Thursday evening for areas southwest of Indy with hail the primary risk.

Temperatures will fall into the mid 40s.

Friday: The Friday morning commute will probably be energetic with ongoing rain. Areas in south central Indiana will see heavy rain for longer durations of time. The preliminary heavy rain band from late Thursday into Friday morning will deliver as much as one to 2 inches of rain with areas south probably seeing regionally larger quantities.

Flooding will probably be doubtless even the chance flash flooding and average river flooding. There may very well be durations through which rain turns into extra scattered as an alternative of widespread Friday afternoon.

Highs will solely get into the low 50s.

Friday evening: A second spherical of heavy precip with situations of embedded thunder is ready to reach by Friday evening. There’s a low risk for robust/extreme storms Friday evening south of a Terre Haute-Greenwood line with damaging winds the first concern. By Saturday morning, a further one to 2 inches of rain is feasible from this second important wave of exercise. Winds can even grow to be breezy once more by Friday evening with gusts as much as 25-30 MPH.

Forecast rainfall totals general: As a complete, areas alongside and south of interstate 70 may have as much as two to 4 inches of rain with remoted larger quantities from late Thursday to early Saturday.

Saturday: Just a few showers could dangle round early Saturday earlier than all exercise leaves the state simply after dawn Saturday. Nonetheless, we’re set to work in windy circumstances because the low passes away from Indiana. Wind gusts look to be as much as 35-45 MPH from late Saturday morning by Saturday night. Highs will happen Saturday morning as nicely with numbers within the mid 50s.

8-Day Forecast: Sunday is shaping as much as be a way more calm day with highs within the higher 50s. Nonetheless, showers will shortly return to the forecast within the latter half of Sunday. Just a few showers will then stick round all through our Monday. Highs will hover across the low to mid 50s for the primary half of subsequent week.