WEST LAFAYETTE,
Ind. (AP) - Indiana’s state climatologist says Hoosiers can expect a gradual
warming by mid-January following the state’s bitterly cold start to 2015.
Purdue
University-based climatologist Dev Niyogi says that after a brief warmup
later this month weather models suggest temperatures will drop again for a
long spell.
He says the outlook
for February through March generally calls for temperatures to be cooler
than normal.
But Niyogi says the
State Climate Office also expects below-normal precipitation across Indiana
through March, in keeping with the office’s earlier prediction of a
drier-than-normal winter overall in Indiana.
He says that will
likely mean less snowfall this winter than last year, when the state was
buffeted by frequent snowstorms.