Good Sunday, everyone. Rounds of showers and thunderstorms continue to dump heavy amounts of rain on the commonwealth. These storms will likely lead to additional high water issues in some areas. If you are thinking the flip of the calendar to September means things will turn dry… thing again. More boomers are head of us in the next week, at least.
Watch for the potential for flash flooding today. These storms are loaded with tropical moisture and can easily dump 2 or 3 inches in a short amount of time.
The threat for scattered storms will take us into Labor Day, but some dry hours are a good bet. Another round of heavy rain producing thunderstorms arrives Monday night and takes us through Tuesday. The pattern continues to favor waves of storms coming at us in the week ahead. Check out the rainfall forecast from the Canadian and European models…
General rainfall forecasts from models don’t really take into account torrential rain totals that come from individual thunderstorms. This is also a pattern that could eventually feature a tropical system down in the Gulf. Some of my analog years had a tropical system impacting our weather later in September. We shall see.
Let’s track some storms…
Enjoy the day and take care.
What are the analog years you are looking at for this fall and winter?
Does anyone want to build a Snowman!?
Thanks Chris. How about building a mud man with all the rain that’s been falling. We’ve picked up an inch and a half overnight here in my part of Pulaski County. Sun is trying to break through the clouds right now. Muggy outside. Have a great Sunday all.
I’m at .21 inches for the weekend! Not what I was expecting but no complaints.
Agreed – certainly an under-achiever. But, since it’s the weekend, no complaints 🙂
I just brought up the 10 day forecast on weather.com. It’s showing highs of 71 and 72 next Monday and Tuesday the 8th and 9th. That’s a drastic change. You seeing any signs of this Chris? Is autumn air in sight?
Unofficially, I have Bowling Green at 11.34″ for the month…smashing the all-time wettest August record by 2″. Wow.
Lexington may be hard pressed to get much higher than where they are at now, securing the #3 spot with at least 9.53″. Don’t really see them getting to 10.00″ for the #2 spot.
Not sure how much it has rained here since I don’t have a rain gauge but its certainly very wet.It was raining when I went to bed and still raining when I got up.Has rained most the day.Nothing heavy,just some light showers.Not a peek of sunshine all day.Temps have stayed in the mid 70s.
According to accuweather the normal high/low for today is 84/62.Then I checked the records and it has 96 in 1957 and 46 in 1976.So I guess there have always been extremes,we just tend to forget or never know due to our age,etc.
Looking forward to Fall temps but can wait awhile on the very cold.