Good Wednesday, everyone. Rounds of showers and storms will continue to amp up over the next several days. This action has been well advertised for the past week, and it could bring some issues our way. Heavy rains and some strong storms will be our headline makers in the coming days.
Today will feature more of the same with storms going up in this sticky atmosphere. I will have your tracking toys in a bit.
A trough digs into the Ohio Valley over the next few days. This brings a couple of low pressures through the region, with waves of heavy rain producing showers and storms…
Here is one model rainfall forecast through Friday…
Additional showers and thunderstorms should be around this weekend into early next week…
We will need to be on guard for possible flash flooding through this time.
The pattern remains active next week into the first week of August. That’s when the GFS has been showing a big trough digging into the eastern part of the country…
Here are your tracking toys for the day…
Make it a great day and take care.
I’ll be looking forward to that drop in temps (and humidity) if it happens. I wonder what is driving the heat this summer. It’s not as bad as 2012 but much hotter than the last 3 summers. I’m also curious why Lexington has not had any Heat Advisories. With most of July being in the 90s and heat indexes going over 100 I’m disappointed. It has been far too hot for young children to spend significant amounts of time out in the heat but some preschools rely on those advisories to determine whether to send kids out to play for extended periods of time. I’ve seen them for Louisville and Cincinnati.
The criteria for a heat advisory here is a heat index of 105 or higher. The highest heat index in Lexington so far has been 104. Close to advisory criteria, but not quite there. Louisville has exceeded 105, and Cincinnati has a lower criteria. Hope that helps.
95 here in Corbin town….Wish we had the storms south of us!
Harlan County could use the rain, too. 🙁
Towns in southeastern Tennessee and northern Georgia are saying that water restrictions may soon be needed if water use is not cut back (my parents live in Chattanooga/Cleveland TN where it has been very dry).
Even Nashville has improved in the last month or so, but southern Tennessee remains very parched. Amazing the short distance between places with too much rain and drought.