Good Wednesday, folks. It’s a true summer pattern delivering late June temperatures to our region. It looks like the overall pattern continues to be skewed warmer than normal, as we track an increase in showers and thunderstorms.
Highs today can hit the low 80s with a mix of sun and clouds with just a small chance for a shower or thunderstorm.
A better chance for, at least, scattered showers and thunderstorms rolls in Thursday into early Friday. The Hi-Res NAM simulated radar…
Temps will still be in the 70s for both days.
The weekend forecast still looks good with partly sunny skies and warming temps. Highs on Saturday are in the 70s, with an 80 possible by Sunday. A word of caution about Saturday, there is the chance this Friday system slows down enough to cause some showers to linger.
The pattern will slowly ramp up the storm chances into next week and beyond. The GFS two week rain forecast…
The WeatherBELLÂ European Ensemble Mean rainfall numbers offer a similar look with an active pattern from the plains into our region…
Enjoy your day and take care.
My KU billing cycle ends usually around the 18th of each month. I just checked my bill and it was $88.21 after all taxes for 32 days. Considering these temps and my bad AC habit, that won’t last.
I usually have a personal contest as to how long I can take it before turning on the AC. I think I made it until June 21st one year. I think it was a month earlier last year.
Of course it won’t last, KU raises rates as often as Charlie Sheen makes toasts at bachelor parties. đ
If you like warmer than normal weather, the past eight months have been for you!
Since September here is the score:
Warmer than normal: September, October, November, December, February, March
Colder than normal: January
April will wind up, more than likely, warmer than normal.
Mosquitos flying around in late Feb was not something I wanted to see.
Let’s hope that map CB put up the other day pans out and May is cooler than normal.
Mosquitos are my enemy. They love me though. A lot. Some odd years back a friend of mine joked that the reason I was always asked to go fishing was that those things only bothered me if I was there. Literally they would eat me up while nobody else had an issue. I must be special to them. Oh, I really wish I wasn’t.
Seems like a lot of bugs and stuff are abundant this year. Wasps are so bad that we cannot go outside without killing 20. And then you go out the next day and there are a ton more starting new nests. Starting them in the riding mower, on the porch, in the wheel well of the vehicles, and everywhere else.
If April ends up warmer than normal then the CFS will have ended up being wrong although trying to forecast 30 days worth of temperatures has to still be extremely prone to errors.
National weather service jackson put something on their Facebook page we was 3 inches behind on rainfall , and drought conditions wa starting to happen , and tomorrow and Fridays around half inch of rain probley won’t do much to help.
Late on April 19 and early April 20, 2011, a string of confirmed tornadoes across Southern Indiana and Central Kentucky occurred. Definitely a scary moment as this all occurred between 10:30 pm and 12:30 am for much of the region. Thanks to NWS Louisville for the reminder.
Next Wednesday, on the 27th, will mark the 5-year anniversary of the tornado outbreak in Central Alabama including an EF-4 monster that struck Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. It really doesn’t seem that long ago.
Ive watched Youtube videos of James Spann’s coverage of that outbreak in Alabama several times. Him and Chris Bailey are my favorite active Meteorologists
It was indeed James Spann that I watched via livestream that day as the Tuscaloosa twister ripped through just south of town, barely missing the Univ of Alabama campus. Both Spann and his on-air colleague were incredibly professional that horrific day.
Time has indeed flown by since 2011.
I was stunned to watch the Tuscaloosa twister live as it happened via the net. A few hours later, a high-end EF4 leveled much of Ringgold Georgia then crossed into Tennessee. My siblings and I were so relieved to later hear that our parents (between Chattanooga and Cleveland TN) were fine but it turned out the tornado missed them by only about eight miles. Yet another twister that day p-a-s-s-e-d relatively close (15 miles?) to my brother and his family in north Georgia.
I later saw the incredible devastation in Tennessee, something that I won’t ever forget.