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KEY MESSAGES

- Cooler temperatures are expected through the weekend, with lows around freezing tonight through Sunday night

- Highs return to the 60s early next week, but cooler temperatures will return Thursday

DISCUSSION (This evening through Friday)

Issued at 206 PM EST Fri Nov 6 2026

Rest of This Afternoon through Saturday...

Some patchy light rain continues across portions of the eastern forecast area early this afternoon. Some additional lake enhanced showers were across northern Indiana, moving southeast. Will keep some low PoPs going this afternoon, mainly northeast. By evening, flow will have changed enough that odds of lake enhanced showers entering the forecast area will be too low to mention.

Drier air continues to erode the clouds across the western and far northern forecast area. This trend will continue through the afternoon. Additional clouds were drifting south from Lake Michigan. The end result by late afternoon will mostly clear to partly cloudy across the southwest half of the area with partly to mostly cloudy northeast half.

Tonight into Saturday morning, additional forcing and moisture wrapping around an upper low will keep a cloud deck across the northeast half or so of the forecast area, making skies partly to mostly cloudy. To the southwest, skies will be mostly clear to partly cloudy. These conditions will allow the southwest half to end up a little cooler than the northeast half tonight. Lows southwest will be around 30 with lower 30s northeast.

Saturday afternoon, the upper low will move east, taking the lower clouds with it. However, some high clouds will move in from the west. Highs will be in the lower 50s. If lower clouds take longer to exit or higher clouds are thicker than expected, readings could be a few degrees cooler.

Sunday through Wednesday...

Central Indiana will remain in northwest flow aloft through Wednesday, between upper systems moving to the north and south of the area. Any forcing that does sneak into the area won't have any moisture to work with, so will go dry through Wednesday. Temperatures will moderate into the lower and middle 60s by Tuesday, but some slightly cooler air will move in for Wednesday, but highs will still be around 60 to the lower 60s.

Thursday and Friday...

An upper trough will bring in cooler air to the end of next week. It may squeeze out some light rain on Thursday. Highs will be in the 50s, with lows returning to near freezing.

AVIATION (18Z TAF Issuance)

Issued at 1233 PM EST Fri Nov 6 2026

Impacts:

- Gradual improvement to VFR at all sites by 21Z or so.

Discussion:

Drizzle has pushed south of the sites already this afternoon. Drier air will work into the western sites first with scattered to broken VFR clouds expected. Eastern sites will take longer to return to VFR and scatter out, with the most uncertainty around KIND.

Overnight into Saturday morning, a band of clouds will remain closer to KLAF/KIND, so kept scattered there. KIND could go broken VFR at times, but wasn't confident enough to add a ceiling at this time.

IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

None.