Good Tuesday, folks. Summertime air continues to rule the weather across the bluegrass state this week. It’s a pattern that has been stuck in place for a while, but some cracks in the armor are starting to show up over the next week and change.
The weather through Friday is pretty simple. Daytime temps will be well above normal and could hit 90 by the end of the week. We will watch the east and southeast for a stray shower or storm from the system along the east coast.
The models now have a few changes for the upcoming weekend. We get a “backdoor” cold front making a run at us on Saturday. It’s called that because it actually comes at us from the north and northeast. That could touch off a scattered shower or thunderstorm along the boundary. Here’s what that looks like from Saturday into Sunday…
Notice how the front only gets so far into the region before slamming on the brakes. How far south and west that thing actually gets will have a huge bearing on Sunday temps. Here’s what the GFS is seeing for weekend highs…
This new found front on the models then has an impact on the front coming our way for Monday. It will increase the threat for showers and storms, but may only knock temps down to normal by Tuesday. The second front we talked about yesterday shows up right behind that with the bigger push of cool…
The GFS continues to advertise some very chilly air…
Of course, it has been advertising that for a while now, and it never shows up. Still, I think we can get some decent cooling on occasion over the next few weeks.
The overall pattern is currently skewed warmer than normal and looks to be into, at least, the first half of October.
Have a great day and take care.
“It’s a pattern that has been stuck in place for A WHILE”.
That might be the hardest undersell I’ve read recently. Heh.
If we hadn’t been dumped on with rain during the spring, I can only imagine how much higher the temps would have been with a dry ground.
On another note, if you happen to be somewhere and there’s a TV with the local weather on, stop and watch it for a minute. I was prisoner to one of the other Lex stations forecasts during dinner and I swear it could have just as easily been an AI chat bot doing the discussion instead of their met. CB gets a lot of kudos for the skill set on the forecasting side of things but he really needs an equal amount of credit for the presentation side.
And people don’t still don’t believe in global warming! We’re not going to have fall folks!
We should put people in prison who don’t believe in global warming! Oh, wait, there is already talk of that.
We have had as many as 18 90 degree days in September and 3 in October. The year was 1939. And the warmest winter on record here was 1889-1890. I do think the planet is warming, but I do think you can point to “short term” climate anomalies as proof.
We go through this every single year with some people “we’re not going to have fall winter is over by January 1st because we didn’t get a foot of snow in December blah blah blah” The sun will rise Fall will come and Winter will be here before you know it, rather it be sooner or later it always happens. Let it be warmer than normal in late September and October and people are writing Fall and Winter off. Smh
We’ll have fall it just gonna run late and it’s not the first time in my life it has happen.
Agreed!!! And it most definitely will not be the last.