EVANSVILLE – A blast of nearly 70-degree weather melted much of the snow that covered Evansville for more than two weeks. But some of it – mountains of it, in fact – could stick around for several more days.
Those plow-created piles in store parking lots may not melt until well into next week, said David Humphrey, lead forecaster at the Paducah, Kentucky office of the National Weather Service. They may shrink quite a bit this weekend, however, if the forecasted inch of rain sweeps through the Tri-State on Saturday and Sunday.
«There’s no real technical answer to give you,» he said. «… In our minds’ eye, we’re thinking by the end of next week, those may be gone.»
They’re the last major remnants of a storm that encased Evansville and most of the Tri-State in more than a foot of snow. The 12-and-a-half inches that fell Jan. 24-25 marked the second-largest snow event in Evansville history, trailing only the behemoth of December 2004.
A snow mound left over from the January winter storm stands in the Target parking lot on the East Side of Evansville on Feb. 10, 2026.
A snow mound left over from the January winter storm stands in the Target parking lot on the East Side of Evansville on Feb. 10, 2026.
The snow stuck around for a historic amount of time
Thanks to a run of frigid temperatures, there was at least one inch of snow pack on the ground in Evansville for 16 days. That’s the eighth-longest run ever, NWS records show, but a long way from the record-holding 53 days the city was covered in snow after the 1978 blizzard.
Humphrey said NWS expects above-average temperatures for the next couple weeks. According to the forecast, Saturday and Sunday could hit the mid-50s. Early next week could surge even higher, with temperatures potentially topping out in the lower 60s.