Good Saturday and welcome to the weekend. We’ve had some awesome weather days across the region for the past several days. Another fall front is on the way later Sunday and this will bring even cooler air for the first half of the next week. We could see the coolest air since spring.
Today is another winner of a weather day with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s for many. Isolated showers and storms will be around the far west and south later in the day.
The next front arrives Sunday afternoon and evening with a broken line of showers and storms…
Winds will really gust up as this front moves through here, but the temps will steal the spotlight. Watch the temperature crash from Sunday into Monday…
Highs in the 70s should be common from Monday through Wednesday, at least. Overnight lows could drop into the upper 40s on a couple of mornings. Some of the model forecasts are pretty chilly…
All of this fits the pattern I’ve been describing for the past several months. Remember all those later Summer cool shots I’ve been talking about? They’re here!
Have a great Saturday and take care.
Thanks Chris. You think maybe Mother Nature is a football fan? Not ready for cold weather. We’ve barely had hot weather it seems like. In any event I going to enjoy what we have and live it! Have a great Saturday everyone!
Just think, 40s in August would translate to below zero again this winter, if we have the exact same magnitude of the northern branch in say January or February.
It’s only Augs and we are talking and reading about fall weather. Heck, summer is not over with yet. I hate the cold and snow. I’d move to Florida today but I can’t afford a divorce to do it. 🙂
So does this mean the pattern is not about to skew warmer? Hoping the 90s are over and done with for this year.
I still think it does… I think. 🙂
A close relative of mine has had their furnace turned on the past few days. It’ll definitely be cranking next week if 40’s are in the offing.
While we have obviously not had too much heat this summer, such was not the case back in 1936. Louisville and Lexington hit record highs on this day that year with temperatures of 101 and 104 respectively.
Indeed, Chattanooga had five days of record highs in late August 1936, including on three straight days (one day up to 104). Lexington had a whopping eight days of record highs in late August 1936 (one day up to 105).
But 1936 was even more crazy – and unfortunately deadly – as it was extremely hot almost all of the summer and even into early fall. Lexington’s all-time record monthly highs in June, July and August were all in 1936 (not to mention the all time high of 108 set on multiple occasions the same year). Furthermore, 1936 was consistently hot for so much of the summer and for so many widespread places east of the Rockies, from the northern plains (Omaha, Minneapolis/St Paul) and even into Canada, to Pennsylvania and Virginia and also into Deep South states like Alabama.
In so many ways, the 1936 heat wave still remains in a c*l*a*s*s by itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave
85 and balmy here in Southern Kentucky 😀 SUPER!