Good Wednesday to one and all. We are dealing with a round of very windy and warm weather across the bluegrass state. This awesome air will roll on for the rest of the week, but some big temperature changes show up for the weekend. All this takes place with a powerful hurricane impacting the southeastern US.
Temps today and Thursday will mainly be around 80 with gusty winds kicking up. Keep in mind, it’s the fall forecast fire season, so abide by all burning restrictions. Can we get a stray shower to pop up? It happened yesterday, and I wouldn’t be shocked to see one today…
Friday will be very windy with some increase in clouds and the chance for a shower or storm in the west before the day is over.
A strong cold front moves in here on Saturday, but will only give us a scattered shower or thunderstorm to go along with very gusty winds. Temps will generally be in the 60s for highs, and will be falling from west to east in the afternoon.
Sunday’s weather looks rather cool and windy with partly sunny skies. Highs should range from 60-65 degrees in most areas. Lows Sunday night have a shot at getting below 40 for the first time this young fall season.
Hurricane Matthew is going to have a HUGE impact from Florida to the Carolinas. Here’s where the storm is now…
To complicate things even more, you will notice Nicole has formed northeast of Matthew, and there could be another named system developing behind it.
The latest from the National Hurricane Center includes Hurricane Warnings for the southeast…
The east coast of Florida is likely to take a pounding Thursday into Friday. This will be a major hurricane as it basically hugs the coast all the way toward the Carolinas. The European Model has a crushing storm…
For more than a week, I have used the word extreme to describe this setup and Matthew continues to go above and beyond that. As a matter of fact, there is even the potential for this storm to get even wilder.
Some of the recent models have Matthew missing the trough to the north, and looping back toward the Bahamas and Florida for a second time. The European started this idea on Tuesday, and the overnight GFS went ballistic with it. Watch this loop and notice the times and dates…
That loop starts tomorrow and goes through October 16th. This is absolutely NUTS and would be catastrophic if it were to play out that way.
The Canadian Model is similar with the initial track, but shows Matthew getting picked up by the trough and carried away after the weekend…
I will have a TON of Hurricane tracking tools in the days to come, so check back. I will also focus more on our weather, but this is a big weather deal.
Have a great day and take care.
That is absolutely crazy.
Yeah, most of us in KY either have friends/family in that area or simply go there frequently for vacation; these people need our thoughts and prayers!
The looping scenario does have history of occurring with storms like this. Last time I saw that happen, a Storm acted like Matthew but then looped back across Florida and headed toward Mexico.
There are at least 5 or 6 models showing this loop. There is also 1 model, the XTRP that shows the storm going right over eastern KY….
We moved to Florence, SC a year ago from KY and I still go here to check out the “real weather”. Our forecasters here aren’t talking about anything past Saturday. No one has even mentioned looping around again as a possibility. The schools are already shut down here so they can be used as evac shelters for people living along the coast and they start evacuations tomorrow. I sure appreciate any help and heads up you can give us. We stayed just a few inches above the flood mark last fall and we only got 8″ inches of rain from that first storm. Exactly a year later, and we don’t know how much to really expect yet. Thanks for all of your time and effort!
My brother is in Summerville(just inland from Charleston), and is asking me the same thing. What is Chris saying? He is also saying the local mets are not saying much other than evacuations. Interstates are parking lots, 26/40/95 inbound from the coast are not moving. Hotels are full, stations are running out of fuel. Makes one wonder why another local met feels the need to travel and report on a storm 600 miles away, using critical goods/fuel/hotels that the vacationers trying to get out and the residents need to survive.
Meanwhile here in Central Kentucky we continue an amazing pattern of warmer than normal temperatures. August was a Top 10 warmest, September was a Top 10 warmest, and October is starting out that way. The coolest temp we have seen so far is 48. The normal low is close to that now. With more days in the 80’s coming up, October will continue to be much warmer than normal