Good Wednesday, friends and neighbors. To say July has been cool would be an understatement. Temperatures are well below normal for the month and several days have featured record lows. The nice temperatures will roll on with no sign of true summertime heat showing up in the coming weeks.
Record lows were set in several cities Tuesday and a few more could fall this morning. Lows in the low and mid 50s are likely for many areas with a touch of dense fog. This afternoon will feature a mix of sun and clouds with a few showers trying to go up. Some isolated rumbles of thunder will be possible.
Today’s Lows
Current Temperatures
Temps over the next few days will slowly warm, but will still be below normal. Highs for Thursday into Friday will range from 80-85 in many areas. Far western Kentucky will be warmer as the dry ground has more of an impact on thermometers.
Scattered showers and storms will increase during this time and may hit a high note over the weekend. The models are throwing out some decent rain totals for a few folks…
We do have a window for temps and humidity to spike for a short time next week, but another dip in the jet stream looks to show up by week 2 of August…
Fall and winter lovers, listen up. I will show you a seasonal computer model forecast with my next update.
Make it a great day and take care.
What is up with this cold stuff….i hate it…not good pool weather.i want some warmer weather…brrrr!!!iI am feeling cheated!!!!
Yipee! Let’s talk winter weather!!
Yay!!! Loving this weather.It is perfect.Not to hot and no freezing.I prefer winter to KC but not quiet ready for that yet.But I am so enjoying not having to run the AC or sweating the minute I walk outside.
Really looking forward to the Fall and Winter forecast.
The past 2 or 3 fall seasons have been, or seem to have been, mild and fall foliage a little on the dull side. I’m not complaining, because the weather was mild and fall was OK, but sure would love to see more bright colors. If we get bright colors this year, I’m going to take more photos. Would an early frost help? Last fall I don’t think we had frost ’til the end of October and then it tried to snow.
Not an expert, but seems I recall that too much cold too early (perhaps an early freeze) may hurt colors somewhat.
I do remember a few falls ago when southern Tennessee along the Georgia/Alabama lines had great colors. At the same time, places like Nashville TN and Bowling Green KY had relatively poor foilage; an early freeze and later high winds blowing down leaves may have been a factor.
I’m more interested in the weather of Today than the weather 5-6 months from now.
That said, with cold air aloft the showers and storms that are going up early this afternoon in SW Ohio (which could drift into Kentucky) may contain small hail…
I live on a very steep hill and if we get an inch of snow or a tiny bit of freezing after rains or any ice in general I am stuck up here for at least a week or longer beyond the other roads being clear.
Last winter I counted on a mild winter and even though I prepared I still went through some stressful times due to the duration of the cold and the hill staying slick due to not being able to thaw.
This year I am already preparing and have ordered my propane,etc earlier than normal.I know long term forecasts have a lot of fluctuation but I do like seeing what is forecast.
Low of 58 in Nashville. As a warm wx person, I’ll take a high of 88 (with low humidity) to keep the pools warm per Karen’s post. But as Crystal mentioned, cool wx is a nice break on the cooling bill; great to hear the nighttime Katydids (at least the kind dubbed “tree frogs”) through the open windows.
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Meanwhile, in addition to NWS Jackson KY finding the EF1 twister and softball size hail in Leslie County KY over the weekend, now NWS Morristown TN is reporting two EF1s and even a rare July EF3 in east Tennessee. Thankfully no injuries or fatalities; both KY and TN continue to have zero death toll marks in all July months in recorded history. But this is only the second July EF3 twister in Tennessee during all July months in recorded history (Kentucky still has had no July tornadoes stronger than EF2).
Since the Farmer Almanac blog has shut down, I haven’t anywhere other than here to talk about folklore and fall/winter predictions. Are there any other weather enthusiast other there that knows of a site/blog that U can go to?
A local weatherman in Louisville has a book of folklore with some 1,300 sayings called Belski’s Backyard Weather Folklore. It may still be available at Amazon.
Otherwise, there are some sites that contain weather folklore such as American Folklore with a brief stint about weather sayings. However, I believe Belski’s was the best.
Pam, I grew up on a farm in rural KY, being very blessed to havepparents who grew up themselves following these weather “signs.” There are SO many things that we would keep track of. For instance, you mark on your calendar when you hear the first katydid. Why? Because 90 days later will be the first frost of the season! 😉 And another thing we always kept track of – the number of foggy mornings in August. What this tells you is the number of measurable, or rabbit tracking snows in the winter. We had a big calendar that we would keep track of all this and it was so much fun seeing how close we came to the real weather.