Good Sunday, everyone. It’s another hot and humid day with scattered storms out there. This setup will roll on for a few more days, but some cooler changes are now showing up strongly for the beginning of the Labor Day Weekend. That’s some good news… right? 🙂
Highs today will be back into the upper 80s to low 90s with scattered showers and storms going up. Similar to Saturday, any storm blowing up can put down a lot of rain in a short amount of time. A few could also be strong. Tracking toys in a bit.
I like this forecast so much, I’m going to play it again for Monday.
Temps by Tuesday and Wednesday come down just a few degrees with the threat for scattered storms continuing.
With a different evolution of the tropical system likely in the Gulf of Mexico, this allows for a cold front to drop in here on Thursday. That front may not have much moisture to work with, but a nice push of cool is showing up behind it by late Thursday into Friday…
The GFS highs for Friday…
Lows by Saturday morning look gooooooood…
Temps should rebound for the rest of the holiday weekend, but not to the levels we are seeing now.
All of this depends on the tropics and what exactly happens with the future Hermine. The models have been all over the place, but some are going back to a bigger Gulf solution.
The Canadian Model…
That run does bring some rain into the eastern part of the state.
The European Model is an absolute nightmare for the Labor Day Weekend as it takes the storm into the Florida Panhandle then slowly up the east coast…
Your tropical trackers…
Looking down the tropical road… there’s a TON of potential in September as winds in the Atlantic are forecast to become much more favorable for development. We’ve had some lean tropical years of late, but my gut says this one won’t be remembered as such. The GFS for the following week has been advertising a huge storm threatening the east coast…
The European Model doesn’t quite go out as far, but you can see the same storm coming on the day 10 wide view…
Your daily dose of storm tracking tools…
Have a great Sunday and take care.
Four days to go in meterological summer and the average temperature for Lexington stands at 77.3–tied for the sixth warmest summer on record. The average will likely end up about 77.4 or 77.5 falling just shy of the fifth warmest summer on record.
Of more interest, this is now the fourth consecutive season that has registered in the Top 10 Warmest. Autumn 2015, Winter 2016, Spring 2016, and now Summer 2016. That has never happened before.
It is terrible. No relief. Just hot, hot , hot. Good thing we found another planet. We may need it.
Thank you for the update. I’m really not buying another promised cool down, but we’ll see.
Check out these cloud pics from an airport in Denmark last night.
http://vejr.tv2.dk/2016-08-28-se-billederne-imponerende-skyformation-da-tordenvejret-ramte-koebenhavn
Looks like maybe they are undulatus asperatus
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/10/11/undulatus_asperatus_a_new_category_of_cloud.html
It helps that in recent years the thermometer that’s used to calculate those temps at the airport is regularly much warmer than surrounding weather stations.
I don’t disagree. I have no other basis on which to compare though. The “official records” for Lexington date back to the 1870’s (with small gap in the 1880’s). You would think the people in charge of those records would want to make sure they are accurate.
Imagine if the official temp recording stations were downtown…that would probably even be worse than the airport.
It’s right over my house – this is a mean storm! But temp dropped drastically……It was so hot…..
Officially no rain today in Lexington as of 8:00 P.M. I drove past the airport three times during the “flood warning” and there was no rain in that area. Seems like a legit recording, believe it or not!