More than 2 inches of rain fell in Greencastle area Saturday

While it seemed like it rained forever Saturday in Greencastle and most of Putnam County, the majority of the rain fell during the period from 1 p.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday, ending just before our clocks sprang forward an hour.

According to the weather station at Greencastle Middle School, the 24-hour total from 1 p.m. Saturday to 1 p.m. Sunday produced 2.11 inches of rainfall in Greencastle, which was smack dab in the middle of a small pocket of heavier rainfall stretching from east of Terre Haute through Indianapolis.

The Indianapolis Airport logged 1.84 inches of rain as the official central Indiana reporting station for the National Weather Service.

For the year, the Greencastle area has now recorded 9.77 inches of rain, according to the GMS site. That is already more than the normal January-February-March combined total of 8.54 inches of precipitation.

Meanwhile, after a dry, cool start to the week, Wednesday is expected to bring a return of scattered showers but added warmth. Southwesterly winds should push temperatures into the 60s and low 70s across the state, marking the warmest air of 2019 to date. The previous 2019 high was 62 degrees recorded on Feb. 3.