Temperatures more typical of early June occurred throughout Central Indiana today! Indianapolis hit 80° for the first time in 193 days (October 3, 2023). This happened exactly one week before the Circle City’s first 80° day on average. Our southern counties got even warmer with a high of 84° in Shelbyville Sunday!
We will likely add another tomorrow, which would bring Indianapolis right on the average amount of 80° days in April. Monday also calls for mostly sunny skies with increasing clouds late ahead of another active stretch of weather.
April rains/storms return midweek
We’re tracking a few rain chances this week. The first is overnight Monday into very early Tuesday but those chances are low. The more significant chance looks to be Tuesday evening/overnight and then again Wednesday daytime. Some of these storms could turn noisy thanks to increasing temperatures and humidity levels.
The Storm Prediction Center has parts of Central Indiana in a level one or two Marginal/Slight Risk for severe weather late Tuesday then a chance for Wednesday. The storm activity for the daytime Wednesday will depend on the earlier storm activity.
Thursday and Friday both have very isolated rain chances. But the bigger story for those days will be the slowly dropping temperatures.
Tale of two seasons this week
60s return by Friday and even cooler conditions are in store for next weekend. We’ll approach more March-like temperatures with highs potentially only in the 50s by next Sunday. But this cool-off look is brief. The latest 8-14 day temperature outlook calls for a pattern trending above normal with temperatures.
