Updating you about icy relationship with the morning

04:25 (Thurs, 2/6/25) – Freezing fog has become more widespread over 21 country. Visibility is limited to 1-2 miles throughout the area. Mist and drizzle freeze by contact with all surfaces and keep untreated surfaces smooth.

1:45 AM (Thurs, 2/6/25) – While radar can appear dry, we’re not actually! Sprinkle and fog (hard to pick up on radar) linger in the area overnight and freezes by contact with surfaces. This lowers visibility as low as a mile in some cases. Stains of freezer gut continue all morning and dry up over the region after sunrise.

1:11 am (Thurs, 2/6/25) – A combination of gossip and freezing rain still makes surfaces ice. While the most widespread freezing rain and gossip have been moved out, freezing fog will be uneven for the next few hours.

12:06 am (Thurs, 2/6/25) – The stable freezing rain has subsided, although the concern is now freezing drip, which is a concern we have mentioned a few times tonight. In the radar snapshot below you can see the difference between the freezing rain in northwestern ohio (emerges in Lyserosa) and the freezing drizzle (in a bit of a hairy, slightly pink) over large parts of northern Indiana.

Although there is not so much volume to contend with in this situation, the dripping can be dangerous in itself as it will still freeze to surfaces it touches. Smooth conditions are still expected for at least the next few hours.

23:00 (Weds, 2/5/25) – I felt we needed proof of those who missed it, so here is a screen shot of the radar image from 1 pm. 23.00 – Yup, it’s lightning, and it has been thundering for about an hour now. It has done a lot of things: thunderous, icing, rain. In fact, we came up with a new term for this Bisarre phenomenon: Trezing rain.

So how can this happen? If you have an air mass with conflicting temperature differences like the one over us right now (near 40 degrees 5,000 feet up in the air, but cling to 30 on the surface), you are quite sure to see some instability. What surprised me was how much We saw!

Roads are ice -covered in most places, though we haven’t seen any new additions to the advisory/surveillance list yet. The morning commuting starts icy for many, but conditions improve as the morning progresses. How much improvement we see depends a lot on how much ice cream is able to stay between now and then and how fast road crews can treat/keep up on the roads.

10:14 (WEDS, 2/5/25) – If you heard Thunder, you won’t lose your mind – there’s a lot of lightning out there tonight! This is one very While this also means something of this rain, especially south of the fort, dynamic storm system is quite heavy, which also means rapid Isaccumulation. Unlike the summer when you only have a thunderstorm yourself to worry about, tonight you have thunderstorms and ice cream to worry about! Best to stay indoors for the rest of the night!

21:40 (WEDS, 2/5/25) – I see a pocket with moderately freezing rain that moves northeast into the area. This will very likely ice things up quickly. This relates especially to areas that already experience ice-over roads. If you are south and west of the fort, you can expect conditions to become more treacherous over the next 15-30 minutes. In the fort and the areas north and east within 45 minutes to an hour, although the heaviest rainfall still appears to be concentrated in our southern counties.

21:20 (Weds, 2/5/25) – a Travel guidance has been issued for Wells County due to smooth conditions.

21:00 (Weds, 2/5/25) – a Travel watch (Level 2/3) Has been issued to Allen County because of smooth and dangerous conditions. Only important journeys are recommended.

20:52 (WEDS, 2/5/25) – Most of you now know how much I love Thundersnow. The system moving through is so dynamic that we observe lightning in the middle of it … freezing rain. What do we call this. Trezing rain? Freezing thunder? Certainly a strange combination! This batch of rain moves north and east and probably reaches our neck of the forest for the next 30-45 minutes.

20:35 (WEDS, 2/5/25) – a Travel guidance has been declared to Huntington County because of smooth conditions. Currently here are the affected counties:

Outside of pockets with freezing rain, there are also plenty of freezing drip, which is something I think we will have to tackle at times through the early morning hours tomorrow. This means that even when there is a break in the constant rain, ice cream could still occur.

More comments on my Facebook page (Matt Leach 21alive Weather) confirming travel is becoming more and more treacherous in places such as Wabash, Huntington, Fort Wayne, Kendallville and Van Wert. I will send an updated radar image in moments!

20:06 (WEDS, 2/5/25) – a Travel guidance has been declared Wabash County due to smooth conditions. Scattered freezing rain is currently streaming through northern Indiana and northwestern Ohio with more rainfall expected to move later tonight.

19:45 (WEDS, 2/5/25) -While driving north on I-69 (around the Lima output), I came across a short rain shower. Usually it wouldn’t have worried me, but in this environment you have to trust a rain shower about as much as you would trust an email from a prince who needs your help! Most areas around Fort Wayne and Points South experience these showers, although areas north (Auburn, Angola, Kendallville, etc.) do not experience much yet. That will change in the coming hours.

Again – to assume everything that falls out of the sky tonight freezes on the road and the sidewalk!

19:05 (WEDS, 2/5/25) – ICY Precip falls in our southwestern community, which you can see on radar below. Radar interprets this as gossip (ice pellets), but I see some signs of freezing rain not far behind. I think the window to sludge is short, with all rainfall falling like freezing rain over the next hour or two.

More rainfall streams north and east from southern Illinois – it looks pretty spread in nature at the moment, but I expect Radar to fill something. I begin to question how heavy/steady the freezing rain threat will be against midnight at the moment based on what the radar looks like.

18:10 (WEDS, 2/5/25) – To see some scattered/light rainfall moving north and east into the 21al vantage area. Radar identifies this as perhaps a bit of gossip/snow, but the expectation is the majority of what falls tonight will be in the form of the more dishonest freezing rain.

The largest Istrussel is still expected to occur closer to 1 p.m. 21 and continue into the night over hours Thursday

17:30 (Weds, 2/5/25) – Radar image to our south shows a complex blend of rainfall over central Indiana and Illinois – Slut, freezing rain and rain.

The difference is everything in temperatures at the surface vs. Higher up in the atmosphere! A warmer weather system will promote warmer temperatures several thousand meters up, but it does not always translate to warmer air on the surface. So while what falls from the sky may be rain when the raindrops hit an under -exempt surface, they Supercoolresulting in a glaze of ice.

Cutting is more common when cold air in the upper levels of the atmosphere promotes snowflakes, which on the way down, melt into raindrops in a warm layer of the atmosphere and then blow in the ice pellet in a colder layer well over the surface before hitting the ground.

Funny, right?!

We expect the conditions to be worsened on the area’s roads between 7 p.m. 7-10p tonight with 7 p.m.

17:10 (WEDS, 2/5/25) – Continue to check this weather blog through early Thursday morning for frequent updates on road and weather conditions.

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