Good Wednesday, everyone. September air is set to move back into the bluegrass state and it’s announcing its arrival with showers and storms. These storms could be on the strong side later today and I have the blog all set to track the action.

Let’s break down the pattern before we watch for storms.

The storms will increase from northwest to southeast this afternoon and evening. Some of these could be strong with torrential rains. This will continue into early Thursday in southern and southeastern Kentucky as our cold front drops in.

Highs Thursday will range from the mid to upper 70s for many with even cooler air working in Thursday night. Check out the lows from the GFS for Friday morning…

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Highs Friday afternoon will hit the upper 70s to low 80s with partly sunny skies. Warmer air fights in this weekend and could bring some clusters of storms moving in from the northwest. We will need to watch that setup.

All of that is ahead of a HUGE dip in the jet stream that takes up residence across the eastern half of the country early next week…

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That will crank our additional showers and storms ahead of it Sunday into early Monday. The big news will be the amount of cool air coming in behind this. It may rival what we just went through a few weeks ago. The GFS has lost its mind with the amount of cold possible. Check out the forecast lows for Tuesday…

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We are NOT going to see temps drop into the 30s next week… that’s absurd. But, that is the first time in my career I’ve seen a model forecast that at any point in the summer.

The overall very cool theme carries us into the start of August…

GFS 4Let’s get to tracking…

Today’s risk area

Latest Day 1 convective outlook

Current watches

Current Watches

Possible watch areas Current MDs

Have a great day and take care.