Good Tuesday, everyone. As we get closer and closer to the start of April, the cold shot is looking more and more like the worst stays just north of Kentucky. Your friendly weatherdude won’t be complaining about that at all. Given how the buds and blooms are off to such a fast start, that’s a blast of cold we want no part of.
Highs today head toward 60 in the east and into the 60s across the west. Winds pick up a bit under a partly sunny sky.
Wednesday will find temps spiking even higher as clouds increase from the west. This is ahead of a potent storm system rolling our way Wednesday night into Thursday. Showers and storms increase quickly during this time…
Skies are going to try and clear some by Thursday afternoon. If that happens, temps can spike deep into the 70s on a gusty southwesterly wind. It could also fire up a line of strong thunderstorms along the cold front moving in…
Take a look at the hefty rain numbers from the NAM…
Much colder air filters in for Friday as showers come to an end. The super cold shot coming later in the weekend is now forecast to stay to our north and northeast. That would allow for a quick bounce back in the numbers by Monday…
From there, temps may surge again by the middle of next week as we wait for the next front dropping into the plains states…
Make it a great day and take care.
I have to admit that this forecast looks more encouraging lol.
NWS Paducah confirms that a tornado occurred near Crofton KY on Sunday. Preliminary rating of EF2, enough to remove the roof from the average home. Thankfully, no injuries.
Some weather history: It was on yesterday’s date back in 1984 that South Carolina and North Carolina had one of their largest recorded tornado outbreaks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Carolinas_tornado_outbreak
My hydrangeas are a lot happier with these model runs than they were with the model runs a few days ago!
People need to face the facts that the GFS simply isn’t cutting it on the long range forecasts for over a year a now. Back in the summer, the model kept showing 100s in which we barely hit 90 after the long range failure. As with this recent long range, I did not believe those teens showing up for lows last week, and I suspect many others on here have caught on to the GFS runs lately as well.
As far as rain goes, I know Western and most of Central KY could probably do without this week, but far Southeast KY is way down for the month. I have recorded 2.22 thus far and have only 2 more days to catch up to our 4.5 inch average here. Fortunately, the wet February has helped keep us on par for the yearly average, so far!