FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) – Though a weak impulse to our west dampened the otherwise partly to mostly sunny conditions many of you enjoyed this afternoon, at least temperatures weren’t affected as highs still managed to make it to around 50º. But Mother Nature says we can do better than that!
An area of low pressure exiting Montana will push a warm front out ahead of it, arriving in the Midwest during the second half of the day Thursday. This will mean a couple of things: first, warmer temperatures with highs in the mid to upper 50s, and second, the possibility of a few showers as that warm front nudges closer to us. The best chance of a little light rain during the day would be south and west of Fort Wayne, though the warm front will push some more widespread showers across our area Friday morning.
The warm front is expected to March north and east through Indiana Friday, though all of us in the weather center are nervously biting our nails as we think back to the many times warm fronts have stalled out across central Indiana, leaving us northerners with a comparatively chilly betrayal. Fortunately, forecast guidance is coming into better agreement that the front should clear northern Indiana and Ohio by the late afternoon/early evening. This would not only bring us into the 70s (we’re going with conservative “low 70s” for now, but we could easily make it into the mid and upper 70s), but also push rain chances farther north into Michigan for the afternoon and evening…