NORTHWEST INDIANA - Northwest Indiana has had lake effect snow developing throughout the day on Tuesday. Mike Bardou, Meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Romeoville, says Tuesday morning the lake effect snow was on the western shore of the lake and it moved through Lake County in the afternoon hours then by around the 3:30 the system was focused on Porter County.
"It'll be gradually progressing eastward and reaching areas to the east of Porter and LaPorte, some parts of Stark and Berien County, Michigan as we go into the evening hours," Bardou says.
Bardou says once the snow band leaves Northwest Indiana on Tuesday evening, that will effectively shut off the precipitation in the short term.
"It's going to take a while into the overnight to get completely shut off in Indiana," Bardou says. "It's going to continue further east of Porter County, where it is now (as of about 3:30 Tuesday afternoon), but after that it does look like we're going to have a stretch of quiet weather and dry weather as we go through the rest of the week with a steady temperature warmup pretty-much each day."
He says Wednesday in Northwest Indiana will still be a cold day with highs only around 20. The Region should be up around 30 degrees on Thursday and the mid or upper 30's into Friday. The warm-up will continue on Saturday with temps reaching the 40s, Bardou says. There will also be some rain or mixed precipitation, before it turns to all rain on Sunday, where Bardou says we may even see temperatures in the upper 40s.
