Good Tuesday, everyone. Your friendly weatherdude is enjoying a week away from work, but that doesn’t mean I’m not working. The blog is a one man machine that never takes a day off. The weather doesn’t take time off so why should I? Never mind, it’s rhetorical. 🙂

Highs today will be in similar fashion compared to where they were for Monday. Low and mid 80s for central and eastern Kentucky with upper 80s to around 90 in the west. Low 90s will show up for areas that have the driest ground.

We will also have a better shot at scattered showers and thunderstorms going up.

Current temperatures

 Wednesday will see an increase in the coverage of the showers and storms… especially in the west. The NAM suggests we will need to watch the late week for clusters of storms trying to pop with a wave of low pressure scooting in…

NAM 3

That trend looks to carry us into the weekend. Pinpointing the exact placement for these showers and storms will be the task as roll forward. Several models are trying to key in on western parts of the state getting some much needed rainfall. Let’s hope that’s the case.

Speaking of rainfall, the latest 40 day rainfall forecast from the CFS looks like this:

CFSThat certainly offers more hope across western Kentucky. The setup above argues for storm clusters developing across the plains and rolling southeastward. It also shows the potential for additional tropical development just off shore.

As far as temps go, readings will come down some late week into the weekend. Timing the next big buckle of the jet stream is difficult with so much going on in the tropics… both with the Atlantic and the Pacific.

The models continue to try to do that next week. The European Ensembles…

Euro 2

Enjoy your day and take care.