Good Wednesday, folks. We’ve made it to the middle of the last week of August. Labor Day Weekend is staring at us in the face and it’s looking more and more like storms will play a starring role. A surge of tropical moisture even tries to get into the mix by Sunday and Monday.
We have some things to talk about before we get to that point. A cold front is moving into the region from the north today and will ignite a few scattered storms. This action will become more prominent during the afternoon and evening hours. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… I can’t rule out a few strong storms that can put down torrential rains and a lot of lightning.
The threat for a few storms will carry us into Thursday with temps down a few degrees in most areas. A storm or two will also pop later on Friday.
The main action arrives over the weekend as low pressure works across toward the Ohio Valley from the west. A big surge or tropical moisture from the Gulf moves our way ahead of this. Check out the increase in showers and storms from southwest to northeast…
That could lead to another round or two of torrential rains later in the weekend.
A similar flow will be in place for Labor Day…
93 degrees in Louisville at the airport day number 8 of 90+ degrees heat indices in Jefferson County are well over the 100 degree mark
Looks like the Louisville heat island attracted some nice downpours this afternoon.
Great thunderstorm came thru frankfort over 1 inch of rain, love it!
I noticed on the radar that there was one storm cell system over Lexington moving to the southeast and another near Louisville that was moving southwest. Is there a specific term for this? Just thought it looked odd.
Upper air wind patterns and upwind propagation factors can be different over a 100-mile distance. This setup was actually similar last week, and a couple of days ago. Somewhere there’s a split, and that place might get less rain than everyone else.