Good Saturday to one and all. We have a seasonally blast of chilly air moving across Kentucky today. This may even knock a few thermometers down into the upper 30s in a few spots over the next couple of mornings. This is happening as Hurricane Matthew continues to batter the southeastern seaboard.
There is a small shower chance across the central and west, but a few showers should fire up in the east. Winds will be gusty and could reach 25-30mph at times early on. Skies will become sunny this afternoon with temps in the 60s.
Temperatures drop quickly into the 50s by sunset with some upper 40s showing up before midnight. With clear skies the next few nights, the models continue to show readings dropping into the upper 30s and low 40s…
Patchy frost is a possibility in some of the sheltered valleys, especially Monday morning. Highs will be in the 60s through Monday. This shot of air has been on our radar for well over a week now. What’s next on the radar?
Temps will be back into the 70s by Tuesday and Wednesday with partly sunny skies and gusty winds. A cold front moves in early Thursday with gusty winds and the chance for a shower or thunderstorm…
The core of the cold stays to our north, but it should knock temps down into the low and middle 60s for Thursday and Friday. As temps try to rebound by next weekend, we have to watch for some rain trying to develop.
The models are then going for another cold front to follow that up the following week…
As blocking continues to get going, these cold shots will be capable of some early season fun across the country late in October into early November.
Lots of winter talk in the days to come.
I leave you with all your Hurricane Matthew tracking tools…
This includes the interactive radar that includes a ton of awesome tools such as live video streams from storm chasers in the path of Matthew…
Have a great Saturday and take care.
It still looks like models are thinking Matthew will curve back around and possibly hit through the Bahamas again?? What are your thoughts on that, Chris??
Thanks Chris. I gotta say, when we have severe thunderstorms, they do damage but they are here and gone. Matthew sent us home three and a half days early and my sisters who live on the east coast of Florida got hammered pretty good. But it went on for them for over 12 hours. The preparation you see on TV was what we saw in person. The canopy of a 7-11across the street from our condo was destroyed and even one lane of the coast highway is gone for a quarter Mille. Love the beach, but I’ll take a Kentucky thunderstorm over a hurricane any day! By the way, we had a couple of those before too. Have a great Saturday everyone and Go CATS! P.S. I am looking forward to hearing some of that winter talk now.
Thankfully, the hurricane wasn’t a fraction as bad as is was made out to be a day before the storm rode the FL coast but it was because the storm both weakened and stayed a little farther away from the coast than it could have (east FL)….even 25 miles makes a huge difference when considering core winds. Overall, it is a blessing that this didn’t turn out to be catastrophic as it will stay take weeks if not longer to repair damages.
No measurable rain…but, I am getting some decent wind gusts and drizzle here near Harlan.
Excited for the winter talk and potential early season fun!