What happened?
First of all I want to thank all my loyal viewers and all of you who are new viewers to the site for your support and continued belief in the IndianaWeatherOnline.com forecast products. Yesterday was a record day on IndianaWeatherOnline.com with over 46,000 visits! That is simply amazing and of course that happens on a day when I produce one of the worsts forecasts possible.
I can honestly say that the past two days worth of forecasting have been some of the worsts I have issued in some time, and thus I am issuing this final update for our non-existent storm to critique my forecasts and outline a few changes within our network of IndianaWeatherOnline.com sites.
First of all, in reference to this past storm, I "busted" my forecasts for several reasons. For more than 10 days out, the storm I had forecasted to be one that would produce a widespread and major severe weather outbreak had shown signs of being a "powerhouse" storm and all indications pointed to what would be a prolific severe weather outbreak.
In my emails, on my radio station forecasts and in news print, I had outlined the details and locations where I thought severe weather would occur, which included most of the state of Indiana and all of Western Ohio.
By yesterday morning (Thursday), it still appeared we would be on track for a major severe weather day, but by late morning several things had gone wrong. First, the low pressure strengthened essentially to rapidly and the severe weather potential was maximized farther South and West. Secondly, the warm front stalled near Interstate 70 and left a large chunk of the area in the cold zone of the storm, which limited instability.
Needless to say, there were only 4 tornado warnings issued in Indiana and those were in the far Southern and Southwestern part of the state, none which verified any confirmed tornadoes.
I am by all means, extremely glad that we did not see a major severe weather outbreak, as the last thing I would ever want to see is damage to property or injuries and deaths, but did feel it necessary to provide this update as to why my forecast was simply so "off."
Quickly as far as our upcoming weather goes, expect some light rain and snow showers through the weekend with a fairly seasonable and quiet weather week in store for next week, so Jansen and myself are going to be enjoying a quiet and easy weather week.
Now as far as IndianaWeatherOnline.com, we have unveiled a few new additions and changes to the site.
We have added a daily Golf Forecast called GolfCast for all of you golfers! Jansen will be the primary forecaster for this page of the site, as he himself is an avid golfer. You can find the link for the GolfCast on the frontpage of the site.
We also have added a Weather Chatroom which can be accessed at www.TheWeatherChat.com
Jansen is maintaining his own weather blog that addresses current weather trends and changes in the upcoming weather pattern.
Finally, we are producing severe weather outlooks for the Eastern half of the United States out to 48 hours in advance every day, and those can be accessed under our Storm Center Page.
More features will be coming soon!
I'm still working on advertising on our network of sites, but if your business is interested, we still have a few open spots, so please contact me.
I can honestly say that the past two days worth of forecasting have been some of the worsts I have issued in some time, and thus I am issuing this final update for our non-existent storm to critique my forecasts and outline a few changes within our network of IndianaWeatherOnline.com sites.
First of all, in reference to this past storm, I "busted" my forecasts for several reasons. For more than 10 days out, the storm I had forecasted to be one that would produce a widespread and major severe weather outbreak had shown signs of being a "powerhouse" storm and all indications pointed to what would be a prolific severe weather outbreak.
In my emails, on my radio station forecasts and in news print, I had outlined the details and locations where I thought severe weather would occur, which included most of the state of Indiana and all of Western Ohio.
By yesterday morning (Thursday), it still appeared we would be on track for a major severe weather day, but by late morning several things had gone wrong. First, the low pressure strengthened essentially to rapidly and the severe weather potential was maximized farther South and West. Secondly, the warm front stalled near Interstate 70 and left a large chunk of the area in the cold zone of the storm, which limited instability.
Needless to say, there were only 4 tornado warnings issued in Indiana and those were in the far Southern and Southwestern part of the state, none which verified any confirmed tornadoes.
I am by all means, extremely glad that we did not see a major severe weather outbreak, as the last thing I would ever want to see is damage to property or injuries and deaths, but did feel it necessary to provide this update as to why my forecast was simply so "off."
Quickly as far as our upcoming weather goes, expect some light rain and snow showers through the weekend with a fairly seasonable and quiet weather week in store for next week, so Jansen and myself are going to be enjoying a quiet and easy weather week.
Now as far as IndianaWeatherOnline.com, we have unveiled a few new additions and changes to the site.
We have added a daily Golf Forecast called GolfCast for all of you golfers! Jansen will be the primary forecaster for this page of the site, as he himself is an avid golfer. You can find the link for the GolfCast on the frontpage of the site.
We also have added a Weather Chatroom which can be accessed at www.TheWeatherChat.com
Jansen is maintaining his own weather blog that addresses current weather trends and changes in the upcoming weather pattern.
Finally, we are producing severe weather outlooks for the Eastern half of the United States out to 48 hours in advance every day, and those can be accessed under our Storm Center Page.
More features will be coming soon!
I'm still working on advertising on our network of sites, but if your business is interested, we still have a few open spots, so please contact me.