INDIANAPOLIS -- After dumping a U.S. rainfall record from a single storm, Harvey is finally moving north - and while we're not expecting much, we could see some rain in Indiana if the storm continues on its current path.
Harvey will have a slight impact central Indiana Friday and Saturday. I know it is the big Labor Day weekend and for the most part the weekend will be great. The timeframe for the biggest impact will be Friday night into early Saturday morning.
Here are the details: Everyone will deal with cool and cloudy conditions as well as a pretty good breeze on Friday. Highs will only be in the mid to upper 60s.
As for the rain, in will start to move into southeastern locations Friday evening and may impact high school football games in areas such as Greensburg, Seymour and Bedford.
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This rain will then spread north and west into the early morning hours on Saturday.
There will be a VERY SHARP cutoff in the rainfall totals across the area.
We are looking at 1”+ of rain from Richmond to Columbus to Bedford and points to the south.
Less than .50” from Muncie to Indy to Terre Haute.
North of that line hardly any rain will fall.
Since August has been very dry any rain will be easily absorbed by the ground so we are not looking at any flooding concern even where we have the higher rainfall totals.
All the rain should end Saturday morning and by the afternoon the sun should be back out.
Once the sun returns it is with us for the rest of the weekend and into Labor Day itself. Not only will it be sunny but warmer too with highs in the 80s.
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Here’s what you can expect in Central Indiana on Friday:
- Cloudy and cool conditions
- Rain chances increasing as you move south of Indianapolis
- Wind gusts of over 20 mph
- High temps struggling to reach 70 degrees
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- 11 trillion: Gallons of water dumped on Southern Texas as of Tuesday night
- 12 million: People under flood watches and warnings
- 3,400: Water rescues in Houston by Tuesday morning
- 30,000: People who will need temporary shelter
- 215,000: Students in Houston who are out of school due to class cancellations (7th largest district in U.S.)
- 56,000: Calls to Houston 911 in 15 hours (average per day is 8,000)
- 58: Counties under Texas disaster declaration
