Good Tuesday to one and all. Near record high temperatures are blowing across the bluegrass state on a strong southwesterly wind. This wind will eventually blow in some rather dramatic changes over the next few days. This will include our best rain chance since August, and the coldest air of the young fall season.
Highs today will generally range from 80-85 with winds gusting to 25mph at times. That said, I can see how we get isolated showers and storms to pop across the region.
A cold front nears from the north on Wednesday and could touch off scattered showers and thunderstorms…
Winds will be very gusty with upper 70s to low 80s in many areas.
A powerful cold front then sweeps into the region on Thursday with widespread showers and thunderstorms. Some areas will pick up 1″ of rain through Friday as the rains slowly move east. Winds will be very gusty as temps tank…
That could produce the first flakes of the season across the highest West Virginia mountains.
Check out the temps behind that front…
With a northwesterly wind flow aloft, we could see another weak shower maker skirting the area at some point Saturday…
The European Model has another weak system on Monday…
Temps will rebound early next week ahead of another potent weather maker. The setup for a big storm system is on the table. Here’s the European Model for next Wednesday and Thursday…
The GFS also has a big signal for that same time…
Have a great day and take care.
@ TennMark
The last comment you made about 1962 and Lexington’s all time low. A couple of winters ago we had those temps. There were a lot of us on this blog commenting deep into the hours of the night, hearing our houses pop from the wild cold. Lots of us were having -20 to -25 temps. People were saying they would drive their car from one part of Fayette county to the other, and the temp would go from -15 to -25. I guess with temps that low it won’t be consistent from one street to the other- So I would say that some part of the county broke that -21 all time record low. I can’t remember what the airport reported but I think it was -17 If I’m not mistaken.
We have a fireplace insert and burn wood during the winter months. That winter we didn’t have much of a wood pile & had to buy several loads to get thru those nasty temperatures. Thank goodness we’ve had a couple of big old oak trees fall & we’ve got enough wood cut for whatever this winter brings.
Yes, I think it was Feb 2015(?) when a KY Mesonet site in a rural area (and in a shallow valley IIRC) of Madison County KY outside Richmond was much lower than other nearby thermometers. Even those other sites had bottomed out around 10 to 15 below. I’m at work and don’t have time to look it up, but wasn’t that one Madison County site something like 30 below?
So officially Lexington has “only” dropped to -21, Louisville to -22, Nashville to -17, Memphis to -13, etc. I was not fully aware how super cold air can change across very short distances until recent years. However, I understand such differences are quite common in central areas of Alaska and Canada.
January of 1994 was the coldest I can ever remember in Kentucky. Louisville was -22, Lexington -20 and Shelbyville state the state record with -37!!! There were some unofficial reports out of Oldham county of -40.
my kinda weather chilly,chilly,chilly!!!!!!!!!
“METEOROLOGICAL TSUNAMI HITS BRAZIL”
I’d never heard of this phenomenon before.
http://plus55.com/culture/2016/10/meteorological-tsunami-hits-brazil
More background
http://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2016/01/17/what-is-a-meteorological-tsunami-and-did-a-city-in-the-united-states-just-experience-one/#163bc30f2bd0
The trees are not turning out so pretty in Harlan, Co this year…too dry down here. The colors are mostly dull compared to the pictures I am seeing from areas to the North and West in KY:(
Well Louisville officially broke a 107 yr old record high of 87 degrees thanks to the airport being the place with the official temp is taken and biasly warmer by 3 to 5 degrees, what a joke!
It is warm down in SE KY too but nothing that I have not seen before. I remember back to 1991 (I think) when it was in the 80s on Halloween; I couldn’t wear my costume more than a few minutes because it was too warm
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