Good Saturday, everyone. The most impressive heat of the summer has engulfed the bluegrass state here in the final days of August. I continue to see signs this pattern may hold into the early part of September, but a lot of that hinges on the tropics.

The weekend forecast continues to be dominated by the heat and humidity. Highs today and Sunday will range from 90-95 degrees with a hit index flirting with 100 degrees at times.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms will continue to increase, with the greatest coverage across the western half of the state. This is where the models continue to put down some pretty decent totals into the middle of next week…

GFS

In the coming days, I’m going to start focusing more and more on the fall and winter pattern. We’re almost to Labor Day, and I need to get cracking on figuring out which direction things may be going. I will share some thoughts and maps along the way.

The tropics are a mess right now, and the models are a scorching hot mess in how they’re dealing with it all. Our possible Hermine is working toward Florida over the weekend. Does this thing cut across and develop in the Gulf? Does it head up the east coast? Does it even develop at all? We shall soon find out.

Back here in the bluegrass state, I have you all set to track any scattered storms that go up today…

Have a great day and take care.