A cold weekend is settling in over the Hoosier state, making dry down more difficult following some recent moisture. That’s the word from HAT Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin in our first Seed Genetics Direct Planting Weather Forecast of the season.
Martin says the good news is the frontal boundary that is moving through Friday won’t have excessive moisture.
“Thunderstorms will give us some higher totals pushing toward an inch, but given it’s spring, we’ve dealt with a lot worse. Evaporation is going to be at a minimum for your Saturday and Sunday. And we’re looking at this cold air sticking around Monday, Tuesday of next week as well. So, slow drying is going to be the calling card of the next three to four days.”
Martin’s forecast gets more active mid-to-late week next week.
“Now, we may not see moisture get in here right away on Wednesday. That weather system seemed to take another southern push here today, so it looks to be moving across the deep south Wednesday into early Thursday. But we do think another wave of moisture shows up here Friday of next week, the 28th. That’s going to give us anywhere from a quarter to one inch of moisture all the way through Saturday. However, I’m also seeing cold air come with that. Rain is the predominant precipitation type, but we could see a little bit of sloppy, wet snowflake action in northern Indiana at the end.”
With moisture moving through, colder temperatures, and slow drying, Martin believes it might keep us out of the fields more than we’d like.
“We’re also seeing a significant surge of warm air over the western third of the country. So, we do expect pattern change to come in here in May. I just don’t think we’re going to be able to see a lot of wholesale field work between now and probably May 4th or 5th.”
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