Dodging the Worst of the Storms & Getting Ready for Brilliant Sunsets

Hey Mike, I took these pictures earlier this evening, I have NO idea of how much rain we got because the wind blew my rain gauge off of its platform. These pics show the rain coming, it was awesome.

Have a Good evening and a Happy and safe 4th....

Dena Flanagan (Newcastle & Wyandotte Rd)

Here comes the clouds and there goes the sun

It is always good to hear from Dena. She always captures the weather mood of Lafayette. You can see the impressive rain shafts in the second picture. It was one of those days on Wednesday when some folks got no rain and others had a quick inch of rain near Logansport. We all missed out on seeing the worst of what nature had to offer. Notice the storm reports were mainly north of us. The two reports you see in our viewing area were just east of Bennettsville with quarter size hail and wind gusts near 60 mph.

The timing was on our side after all. It did not arrive until the wee hours of the morning so it lost of a lot of its punch. The front also ran into some drier air as it moved our way last night so that kept us from seeing any additional severe weather. This dry air was likely mixed down out ahead of the main cold front. We did have plenty of really amazing lightning around the area last night. Now the the big 4th of July weekend is almost here and the only light show folks want to see is a fireworks show. Now across our entire country there is only one big front on the map and guess where it is located. Of course it is here in Indiana. The question is where will it stall out. Drum roll please.....okay here is the answer!


Thanks to high pressure building in to our north the front should stall close to northern Kentucky and not by the Tippecanoe County Courthouse! This front will be the focus for scattered showers and thunderstorms over our holiday weekend. Here in Lafayette we will have a nice dry north to northeast flow and while we may have a good deal of clouds around on Friday, I think any rain chances should remain small! Here is the weather for Friday night at 10:00 p.m. You may even need a sweatshirt for the fireworks.


These are the kind of fireworks we all hoped for. Right now it looks like temperatures will be in the middle to upper 60s with a mix of clouds and starts. A cool northeast wind will be near 10 mph. It simply does not get any better. Just in case those clouds try to pop a rain shower or thundershower I will be at work Friday evening babysitting Live Doppler 18 just in case. It never fails to have a lone shower or thunderstorm pop up and I remember one year we had this strange funnel form in the sky even though it was sunny outside. I still have that picture in my weather room to prove it. So there are never any guarantees, but this year it is looking pretty good! Now we all know nature does not like to be outdone this time of year. Check out this display in the sky that has been repeated for the past week!

You have heard of a blue moon right? Well how about this lavendar sunshine. This is caused by smoke particles. This picture was taken in Arcata, California by Mike Kelly. These same smoke particles may also do something special to our sunrises and sunsets over the holiday weekend. I will be back to tell you all about. In the meantime, have a great day! Great job once again blogging last night.