Good Tuesday, folks. We have a weak cold front on top of the region today, touching off scattered showers and thunderstorms. Even with the storms, today is another warm day and things will only get warmer from here. In addition to the warm, I’m also tracking more storm chances.
Today’s boomers will kick into high gear during the afternoon and evening, with some locally heavy rains. Temps ahead of the storms will spike well into the 70s…
Storms move out of the area early Wednesday, with skies becoming mostly sunny by the afternoon. Highs range from 70-75 for most of the state.
Thursday will see mid and upper 70s with a small threat for an afternoon storm.
There is a slightly better chance for storms on Good Friday…
Even then, it doesn’t look anywhere near a washout.
That kicks off a VERY WARM Easter Weekend here in the bluegrass state. Check out the forecast highs…
Those numbers are flat out awesome!! But, can we keep the storms away as the Easter Bunny hops into town? That remains to be seen because of a weak front dropping in from the north. That may spit out some showers and storms…
The pattern next week is one to watch for a renewed severe weather threat in our part of the world.
Enjoy your Tuesday and take care.
This is great early gardening weather for sure with no complaints from me! Hopefully, these temps will continue into May and we don’t go back into either a chilly pattern or straight into high summer heat which tends to happen after Mother’s Day!
April showers may happen today, but I don’t expect any in the state tomorrow. Showers, may return on Thursday. It is a great time to get your garden in shape, but don’t spade up your soil if it is still wet, and don’t plant your tomato’s too early because the soil temperatures are too cold. Usually, tomato plants are best planted around May 15 th to June 1st. Have a great day.
Anybody else ready for October?
No
yes
Absolutely not! I’ll enjoy the spring and summer months. Time goes by way to fast.
Agreed, Prelude!
Always ready for October.
I love fall but not ready for another winter yet, especially if it is 5 months of no snow!
The Palm Sunday Tornado outbreak of 1965 occurred on this date. The ‘twin twisters’ photograph taken in Dunlap IN is one of the most famous tornado photographs ever taken. One famous quote from that day was from a weather observer at the U.S. Weather Bureau in South Bend, IN during the most chaotic part of the event when he said, “Reports of tornadoes and funnel clouds have become so numerous that it is impossible to keep track of them.”
The Palm Sunday outbreak was a major day in my life. I turned 9 that day, received a stingray bike as a present, sang solo in church (that was scary), and I was well-aware of the weather. Growing up in NW Indiana I remember it being hot that day, the energy somehow skipped over us, but the death and destruction that occurred just to our east was incredible. I remember back then I wanted to be a storm-chaser even though they “weren’t invented yet”….but I guess my stingray couldn’t really cover that much ground.
Maybe not a push pedal schwinn stingray but a Corvette stingray your covering some ground now. Just not the proper car to storm chase in.
Chris: On 9 April, 2017 @ 11:27 pm you responded to my post or comment on El nino and La nina. You told me in my discussion on the former was not true, and what I wrote was nothing. I researched all my findings and I post this comment to be true. Calling it nothing is like calling me nothing. If, you prefer that I not post anymore please let me know.
Oh, geez. Really!?! Smh
exactly… smh … hahaha
Schroeder, please stop posting because you are very annoying and nobody cares what you click, copy and paste from other weather blogs…
No, what he said was nothing you posted was true, he didn’t say you or your post was nothing. Like he said, he has given you lee way on posting that Ive not seen few enjoy on here. I think you need to re-read that comment again. You have to understand it gets annoying when 85% of the time someone posts on your site either directly or indirectly contradicting you. Get out of the Kitchen if you can’t take the heat.
I think CB would be okay if you had some different opinions from his discussion at times as long as you could back it up with actual scientific sites to share. But, I would not like it either if I were in CB’s shoes and someone disagreed with me 90% of the time without backing up their opions with some facts.
What I love is seeing that Blue line retreat further and further north on the week out forcasts…..
This front that is literally crawling if not inching it’s way on by has poo-poo any thoughts of me doing any yard work. Temperatures have stayed in check 57-62 depending on if it’s raining, which it has been doing all day along the river county’s. I swear this front hasnt moved 5-10 miles since this morning.
Sucks for central and western KY today while I am enjoy 80 in Harlan!
It was 80 in Richmond.
CB, I read your tweet about the Reds being a fun team. The Reds do this every year start off fairly hot and by sometime in June they completely falter. Let’s talk around All-Star break and see where there at.
Thank you for a fantastic, up-to-date, insightful blog. This is the most in-depth weather blog I have seen. Some blogs post only every so often, and information is surface level. I love the detail of your blog. I will admit, winter snow threats are my favorite, but I do enjoy the daily updates all year round because I know what to expect. Thank you for your diligence. Hope everyone gets to church this weekend to celebrate.