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Weather Alert

Weather Alert

...AN AIR QUALITY ALERT HAS BEEN DECLARED...

The officials at the Indiana Department of Environmental Resources
have declared an Air Quality Alert for...

Monday...May 29 for the following Indiana counties...

Carroll, Tippecanoe, Howard, Boone, Hamilton, Madison, Delaware,
Hendricks, Marion, Vigo, Shelby, Brown, and Bartholomew...

Ozone levels are expected to be in the Orange or Unhealthy for
Sensitive Groups range. Active children and adults, and people
with respiratory disease, such as asthma should limit prolonged
outdoor exposure.

Here are some recommended actions that the public can take to reduce
ozone forming emissions:

* Walk, bike, carpool or use public transportation.
* Avoid using the drive-through and combine errands into one trip.
* Avoid refueling your vehicle or using gasoline-powered lawn
equipment until after 7pm.
* Turn off your engine when idling for more than 30 seconds.
* Conserve energy by turning off lights or setting the air
conditioner to 75 degrees or above.

For further information, please see the IDEM Smog Watch page on the
Internet at:

http://www.in.gov/apps/idem/smog/

May 22, 10:30 PM Weather Forecast Update-Dry Spell with Bursts of Early Heat Interspersed with Cooler Weather & Wetter, Stormier Pattern In June....

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May 22, 10:30 PM Weather Forecast Update-Dry Spell with Bursts of Early Heat Interspersed with Cooler Weather & Wetter, Stormier Pattern In June....
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With significant evaporation & lack of frequent rainfall, top soils are drying substantially & will do so rapidly this week.

Currently, surface soil moisture is a bit lacking in parts of the area, especially the sandy soils in Newton, Jasper to Pulaski & White counties.  The glacial till and outwash loams are getting quite dry in Benton, Carroll, however.

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Highs today reached 79-86 with very low relative humidity down to less than 20%.  Dew points dropped into the 30s.

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Pattern is very dry over the next near 2 weeks.

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Hot upper ridge will push far enough to the west to allow upper trough & surface cold front to impact area Wednesday evening-night.  This will bring brief cool-down.  With the very dry air, Friday morning will be particularly chilly with lows 39-45.

However, front then goes rapidly back north as a warm front by the weekend.

The heat builds, but the humidity will be low.  Evaporation will be very high.  Young corn & soybean roots will have to work to go extra deep to get the water by the weekend & next week. 

Germination may be a bit delayed or discontinuous in some soils owing to lack of moisture in the upper few inches. 

Young warm-season vegetable transplants may struggle to get the roots down fast enough to access the water.

This is very, very much like pre-Moderate El Nino in 1994.

May to early June was dry & it did turn hot, but not after some bursts of cooler nights with warm days in late May 1994.

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There is the heat-up after brief cool-down.   

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Hot ridge dominates a chunk of next week.

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Wetter, stormier pattern is ahead further into June.

It may be hot & humid with severe weather risk, then we get a bit of a cool down.

We will also need to watch the Florida to Cuba area for potential tropical development.

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I am still thinking bit drier, warmer start to June, but an overall wetter & bit cooler than normal Summer (despite potential of random 100-degree day like 1994 & 1997 analog years).

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