INDIANAPOLIS — Scattered rain showers are expected across southern Indiana on Wednesday, but forecasters say the moisture won’t be enough to ease the state’s ongoing dry conditions.

“South of I-74 you’re going to see the rain,” said Chad Swain, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Indianapolis. “The farther south you go, the more coverage of rain you’re going to get. To the north of that, little or no rain is expected except for maybe a few showers late this afternoon.”

Swain said the expected rainfall won’t make much of a dent in the drought affecting much of the state.

“It would take several inches of rain. Farther south, the drought is less severe, so it would take less rain, but what we’re seeing today won’t do much to help,” he said.

Despite the rain chances, Swain sa

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