Good Friday to one and all. We haven’t had a lot of normal summer weather this year across the bluegrass state, but that looks to change in the days ahead. Temps will steam up as we tracking typical afternoon and evening pop up storms. In true fashion for the summer we are having, ‘normal’ isn’t going to last very long.

Highs today will generally run in the middle 80s in the central andย east to upper 80s in the west. Skies will be partly sunny with a small threat for a popup storm.

Saturday’s forecast looks similar as temps rise a few degrees.

Sunday into early next week will find daytime highs ranging from the upper 80s to low 90s across the state. A couple of systems dive in here from the northwest with some rounds of showers and storms trying to fire up. We will have to watch and see if that setup can give us some decent storm clusters.

This normal version of summer heat should get wiped out pretty quickly later next week into the first few days of August. A deep trough looks likely to dig into much of the eastern half of the country…

Euro

That’s an idea strongly supported by the various computer models I look at. The GFS Ensembles even try to spin something up down in the Gulf as the trough develops…

GFS TEMPS 1

That model shows another trough digging in several days later…

GFS TEMPS 2

European Ensembles also like the cool start to August…

Euro 2

All of that matches up well with what the CFS has been advertising for a while. It continues to do so…

CFSYour scaled down version of the tracking tools…

Have a great day and take care.