Rain Ends Then Colder

MIKE: LET’S BRING IN KEVIN ROBINSON, A VERY BUSY MAN. WHEN YOU PULL UP THE RADAR, YOU WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THAT RAIN. IT LOOKS LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE. ASHLEY: IT HAS THE GREEN — KEVIN: IT HAS THE GREEN, THE YELLOW, THE RED. ALL OF THE LIGHTS. EVEN THE BRIGHTER COLORS ARE NOT REPRESENTING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LIKE THEY HAD ACROSS THE DEEP SOUTH TODAY, BUT THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF WHAT HAS BEEN A DECENT SOAKING AROUND THE AREA. OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS IT WILL RAIN AT A DECENT CLIP. WE ARE CONTINUING TO WATCH RAINFALL AMOUNTS VALLEY. — TALLY. WE HAVE HAD A CONTINUOUS FLOW OF WET WEATHER ALL AROUND THE TRI-STATE WITH HEAVIER RAINS SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER. HERE COMES ANOTHER WAVE OF GOOD SOAKING RAIN THROUGH OWEN COUNTY , THIS WILL WORK ITS WAY BACK UP THROUGH PARTS OF THE OHIO RIVER. IT IS MAKING FOR A WET NIGHT. HERE ARE SOME PROMISING SIGNS FOR THE END OF THE RAINFALL. IF YOU LOOK BACK TOWARD EVANSVILLE, BOWLING GREEN, DOWN TOWARD THE LAND BETWEEN THE LEGS THERE IS DRIER AIR THAT IS STARTING TO WORK ITS WAY BETWEEN THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY. WE HAVE ON THREE OR FOUR HOURS LEFT OF RAIN. THAT WILL HAPPEN AS WE WORK OUR WAY FROM WEST TO EAST. LOOK AT RAINFALL AMOUNTS. FINALLY ADDING UP ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER. IN EXCESSIVE ONE POINT FIVE INCHES, 1.25 INCHES. A DECENT SOAKING FOR A GOOD NUMBER OF US HAVE YOU CAN SEE APART — ACROSS PARTS OF BRACKEN COUNTY. OVER ONE INCH IN PARTS OF BOONE COUNTY. THIS IS HOW FUTURECAST LOOKS. WE WILL ADD THE RAIN THROUGH THE NIGHT TONIGHT. HERE IS TO :00 A.M. BY 4:00 MOST OF THE RAIN HAS ENDED. I EXPECT BETTER COMMUTING CONDITIONS THANKFULLY FOR TOMORROW MORNING. AT LEAST WE WILL NOT HAVE STANDING WATER OUT THERE, AND THERE WILL NOT BE RAIN FALLING. TEMPERATURES WILL BE GOING DOWN IN THE MORNING. MOSTLY CLOUDY TOMORROW. COLDER AIR GETS IN HERE TOMORROW NIGHT. IT MAY BE ENOUGH TO SQUEEZE OUT A OR TWO, BUT THIS IS OF NO CONSEQUENCE. IT SIGNALS THE ARRIVAL OF OUR COLD WEATHER PATTERN THAT WILL GET COLDER GOING INTO CHRISTMAS WEEK AROUND HERE. IT IS CHILLY THIS WEEKEND BUT NOT NEARLY AS COLD AS WHAT IS PROBABLY COMING. TONIGHT, A WARM FRONT LIFTING THROUGH. TEMPERATURES HAVE GONE UP, BUT HERE COMES THE COOLER AIR. SOME OF THE RAIN AND SNOW ACROSS PARTS OF ILLINOIS. WE DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT, AT LEAST NOT YET. THE TREND IS WERE COLDER, AND WHEN WE GET THESE COLD WAVES USUALLY IT DOES NOT HAPPEN IN ONE EVENT. YOU GET A SMALLER SURGE AND MEGA SURGE COMES, AND THAT WILL HAPPEN RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. WE WILL GET THE FULL LOAD OF COLD AIR COMING INTO THE OHIO VALLEY. IT IS THE WARMEST IT HAS BEEN ALL DAY, WE ARE IN THE LOW 50’S. TEMPERATURES RANGE FROM 40’S NORTH OF THE RIVER TO LOW 50’S ALONG THE RIVER AND SOUTH. WE WILL SPEND THE NEXT HANDFUL OF HOURS IN THE 50’S. IT WILL BE MILD THROUGH THE NIGHT. RIGHT BEFORE THE SUN COMES UP IN THE MORNING, LOOKS AT WHAT HAPPENS TO TEMPERATURES. TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO GRASP, AND WE WILL BE BACK DOWN INTO THE LOW IN MID 40’S AS WE START OUR THURSDAY. TEMPERATURES KEEP INCHING UP FOR ANOTHER HOUR OR TWO UNTIL THEY START TO FALL. TOMORROW, 53, THAT WILL BE WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. BY THE TIME YOU WAKE UP IT WILL BE MUCH COOLER FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE DAY. HERE IS YOUR SEVEN-DAY FORECAST. WE HAVE 30’S FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY. TEMPERATURES BARELY MAKE IT ABOVE FREEZING IN THE WEEKEND. THEN WE GET REPRIEVE EARLY NEXT WEEK, BUT THIS IS ANTICIPATION OF COLDER AIR THAT WILL COME JUST BE ON WEDNESDAY. SOME OF THOSE NUMBERS INVOLVE NEGATIVE VALUES. IT IS SOME SERIOUS COL