Good Tuesday, everyone. Rounds of showers and thunderstorms continue to increase across the region, and these could cause some additional local high water issues. This is part of a very active pattern that throws more storms at us this weekend, ahead of a much cooler blast of air.
The storms today may be on the strong side with local wind damage. The bigger threat comes from lightning and heavy rainfall. These storms are capable of putting down an inch or two of rain in an hour or so.
Similar conditions are possible for Wednesday, with scattered stuff around on Thursday and Friday…
Notice the action increasing across the plains states on Friday. That’s ahead of a cold front bringing additional strong storms and heavy rain this weekend…
Much cooler air comes in behind that from late Sunday into Monday. Temps may be well below normal…
The GFS Ensembles keep the cooler than normal look around through the end of the month…
Here are your tracking tools for the day…
Have a great day and take care.
Every morning I look at the radar and it looks exactly the same!!! The poor people out to our west and north have had rain constantly! And every day I think, today will be the day it rains here…and it never does!! BUT I am not complaining, muggy…hot…sun…I will take it ANY day over cold and dreary 😉 summer can hang around as long as it likes in my book! Thanks for all you do, Chris!!
Thumbs up to all of this, including the kudos to Mr. Bailey.
bgbecky, I think our luck is about to change it’s raining at my neck of woods. just waiting for the cooler air to filter in next week.
NWS in Louisville is now questioning about the weekend front. The 16.00z ECMWF holds the surface front to our west/northwest through Monday while the GFS solution washes out the boundary across Kentucky. Both solutions at this time would rule out the sweeping high pressure and relief from the high humidity and warm temperatures, at least for Monday. A model consensus brought up lows some and kept highs still in the 80s. Given its still 6 days out, details on whether a refreshing reprieve from summer humidity is in store will be fine tuned a lot this week. Well that’s a big change from yesterday.
How many on this message board have a spouse that likes the opposite weather of yourself?! 😉
My wife is counting the days to cooler weather and wants at least one good snow. I, like bgbecky, will hang on to summer as long as I can although even I would not mind the humidity being knocked down a notch or two.
This all can lead to “discussions” about the thermostat among other things…. 😉 😛
I’ll take CB word in what he saying about the cooler temps filter in next week. The weather channel were giving the same forecast as CB has mention for next week.
I’ll also will take take what CB has to say all day long CB is one of the best around. I also cannot discount or dispute that the NWS in Louisville are also pretty spot on. I’m pretty certain CB would agree with that statement in general. NWS caution last week about the models spitting out excessive rainfall amounts for KY. NWS was very skeptical if that would occur in there forecast discussion due to the SE ridge. Sure enough they were correct. So I also give them prop’s. As with weather a lot can and will change.
No one has a monopoly on truth, accuracy, or anything else. Your attitude is healthy. Keep it up.
And to be fair to a lot of mets the computer models have been garbage it’s like watching the Reds play both have been nothing short of just terrible. I know a lot of meteorologist have taken some heat for the forecast for this past weekend. Which is mystifying to me I guess some folks wanted a possible flooding rain.
Only mother nature knows the accuracy!!!!
How come it’s only snow forecasts that “bust”? I’d say the rain forecast for central KY starting this past weekend until now qualifies as same.