Good Monday to one and all. We’ve had quite the run of colder than normal temperatures for the past week and change. This looks to continue through the rest of the week before the pattern flips to warm over Kentucky Derby weekend. That’s a warm pattern that may dominate much of May.
We continue to flirt with the potential for frost this morning and again Tuesday morning. Lows will drop into the low and middle 30s for the coldest valleys.
Afternoon temps on this Monday will only recover into the upper 50s and low 60s for many. Similar temps will be noted for Tuesday as some clouds roll into town. Those clouds are ahead of a southern, slow-moving storm that works up the east coast. That should come close enough to throw some rain our way Wednesday into Thursday…
That keeps temps on the very cool side of things and may even allow for one more morning in the upper 30s on Friday.
That should then set us up with a breezy and sunny Kentucky Oaks Day. The European Model idea of a slower warm up is likely the correct way to go. The GFS has now come way down with high temps for Oaks…
Kentucky Derby Day finds the warmer air really beginning to surge in…
That is likely to begin a very warm first week of May across much of the country…
Yes, Please!
Enjoy your Monday and take care.
This is long, but I wanted to share an interesting experience I had…
Went through an insane wx-coaster on Saturday! When I had arrived at Bowling Green around 9am and it was cloudy and cool. A couple hours later it got sunny and warm. When I left Bowling Green around 4pm to go back to Lexington, there was a nearly cloudless sky, humid, and hot with a temperature of 81°. I got a slushy on my way too! I checked the radar and there was nothing. Near E-town, that’s when it really started to get cloudy very quickly and the temperature plummeted to 60° within a time span of about 15 minutes driving past E-town. Clouds got dark and all of a sudden I start seeing a whole lot of lightning to my right. I check radar again and radar blossomed with storms left and right of me in about 10 minutes. An alert came to my phone and said I was in a tornado warning! I check radar again and I was super close to pulling over one of the exits. Thank God I saw that I was driving away from the storm. I was on the outer fringe of the warning so everything was ok. Temperature kept dropping on my way and when I got to Lexington, it was 48°! It was a HUGE shock to my system because I never checked the temp before I got there. Never seen such drastic changes in weather before. From 81° and sunny to 48°, windy, rainy, and cold!
Thanks for sharing that story Israel and glad you had a safe trip. Lexington really got lucky with all those storms going mainly south of us.
Yup welcome to Kentucky. CB said there was going to be a crazy tight temp gradient within 10 to 15 miles a 20 to 25 degree difference depending on where you live.