I Love The 80s

Good Tuesday everyone. It’s time to put on the leather pants and members only jackets while playing with your Rubik’s Cube as you jam to Madonna and enjoy the flavor of a new Coke. Yes, my friends… the 80s are back. Ok, Ok… it’s not the decade I’m talking about, but I take every opportunity I get to talk about the era. 🙂

Record highs are likely to bite the dust again today across Kentucky. Readings should top out in the low and middle 80s and these readings may break records dating back to the late 1800s.

The NAM says the 80s should hang tough into Wednesday…

Wow… what a pattern!

Changes are brewing for later this week into the coming weekend as a slow-moving storm system rolls our way. This is the same bad boy producing flooding rains and severe weather in the plains states. The low will cause an extended period of scattered showers and thunderstorms for us from late Thursday into the upcoming weekend.

Watch how slowly this closed low works through here…

Systems like this can produce some heavy rainfall and that’s something we will be watching out for. It should also knock our temps down with highs in the 60s for a day or two. That’s still above normal, by the way.

Next week may see another round of very warm temps as mother nature continues to run in fast forward.

Like, totally have a rad first day of spring and take care.

15 Comments

WXman on March 20, 2012 at 6:40 am

2/3rds of the way through the month, and our avg. temps. are running just a shade under 10 degrees above average for the month. That’s just crazy.

BBS79 on March 20, 2012 at 7:25 am
Does anyone know what the long range is looking like for April and May? Are we going to get shocked with highs in the 40s and 50s?? Hope not!

80's lady on March 20, 2012 at 6:46 am

i love the way you have fun with your forcast…all other are just so bogus….lol

Teacher Nate on March 20, 2012 at 7:16 am

I love it. What I would love even more is that when winter comes badk for its last horah….(1st week of April hopfully…) I’ll be in Florida. HAHA!!!

Peace

gtwister on March 20, 2012 at 9:23 am
May be a minority here, but I like cool sunny springs. If anything, I’d rather do ski trip to the Rockies than a Carribbean beach. But at least this warmth is not a more humid kind of heat like in July.
Oh, GO CATS!, both men and women! Although the women narrowly avoided snatching defeat from jaws of victory last night, got to do better than than against the likes of UConn, Baylor. Can’t wait for the guys to do avenge against that team in the Big Ten! 😉
- Teacher Nate on March 20, 2012 at 12:43 pm
  I’ll take the Caribbean anytime…even the dead of summer. But we’ll be playing softball in Florida. If its gonna snow..rain etc., I’d rather it happen while I’m gone.

Shawon on March 20, 2012 at 8:40 am

Chris…here’s a question.

When are you going to have a blog post titled “I love the 00’s”???

I could be talking about temperatures that are in excess of 100 degrees or I could be talking about single digits… 😉

gtwister on March 20, 2012 at 9:41 am

Perhaps the experts here can give their two cents here.

As a child growing up under the greats of Brad James and others at WKYT, we were told a ditch was better than car during a tornado. I remember the 1979 Wichita Falls Texas twister, the pics of that thing haunted me as its width was much more than its height, later learned that many of the deaths were in cars. However, in recent years there has been safety advice if you choose to stay in your car (as a last resort). I’m puzzled, which is better, a car or a ditch?

Mark on March 20, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Not an expert, but current expert consensus may be a tossup between a car and ditch. Can’t recall the source, but read of a study of car-related tornado deaths in countries like Canada where seat belts came into vogue much sooner than here. To cut to the chase, it appears seat belt/airbag use greatly helps your chances in a twister.
But if possible, a strong building is better than either a car or ditch. EF4/5 tornadoes can turn cars into wadded up balls of metal or long range projectiles. At the same time, even a ditch may leave one exposed to lethal flying debris.

blizzardtim on March 20, 2012 at 9:47 am

oh my!! flash back to the high school days of the 80’s…lol… im totally loving this weather …hopefully we arent gonna get a rude awakening before may 1st…after that rude awakenings are just nice cool downs…:)

Pollen is high too yellow coated everything…sneeze,sneeze…cough,cough,cough!!!

Jenn on March 20, 2012 at 11:28 am

Thanks Chris I think your one narly weather dude!!

Sam on March 20, 2012 at 1:37 pm

Just an FYI, saw this on WKYT- the Chik-Fil-A stores in Lexington, Richmond and Georgetown are donating 20% of today’s sales to be used to buy new textbooks for West Liberty Elementary. Pretty cool how a local business has stepped up to help out the kids. 🙂

alena on March 20, 2012 at 2:04 pm

This weather is way too warm. I think we will get a really cold spell in April or May. I hate that too. Don’t want to see all the trees freeze. I remember back in 69 we had warm weather, then in May a really bad freeze and everything turned black. It wasn’t pretty.

rolo on March 20, 2012 at 2:33 pm

well NO MENTION of THUNDERSTORMS for today, well now WEATHER CHANNEL saying chance after the FACT.LOL

rolo on March 20, 2012 at 2:35 pm

BRAD JAMES/FRANK FAULKNER was the ISH back in the day with BRIAN COLLINS coming around as well.

WXman on March 20, 2012 at 6:40 am
2/3rds of the way through the month, and our avg. temps. are running just a shade under 10 degrees above average for the month. That’s just crazy.
- BBS79 on March 20, 2012 at 7:25 am
  Does anyone know what the long range is looking like for April and May? Are we going to get shocked with highs in the 40s and 50s?? Hope not!
80's lady on March 20, 2012 at 6:46 am
i love the way you have fun with your forcast…all other are just so bogus….lol
Teacher Nate on March 20, 2012 at 7:16 am
I love it. What I would love even more is that when winter comes badk for its last horah….(1st week of April hopfully…) I’ll be in Florida. HAHA!!!
Peace
- gtwister on March 20, 2012 at 9:23 am
  May be a minority here, but I like cool sunny springs. If anything, I’d rather do ski trip to the Rockies than a Carribbean beach. But at least this warmth is not a more humid kind of heat like in July.
  Oh, GO CATS!, both men and women! Although the women narrowly avoided snatching defeat from jaws of victory last night, got to do better than than against the likes of UConn, Baylor. Can’t wait for the guys to do avenge against that team in the Big Ten! 😉
  - Teacher Nate on March 20, 2012 at 12:43 pm
    I’ll take the Caribbean anytime…even the dead of summer. But we’ll be playing softball in Florida. If its gonna snow..rain etc., I’d rather it happen while I’m gone.
Shawon on March 20, 2012 at 8:40 am
Chris…here’s a question.
When are you going to have a blog post titled “I love the 00’s”???
I could be talking about temperatures that are in excess of 100 degrees or I could be talking about single digits… 😉
gtwister on March 20, 2012 at 9:41 am
Perhaps the experts here can give their two cents here.
As a child growing up under the greats of Brad James and others at WKYT, we were told a ditch was better than car during a tornado. I remember the 1979 Wichita Falls Texas twister, the pics of that thing haunted me as its width was much more than its height, later learned that many of the deaths were in cars. However, in recent years there has been safety advice if you choose to stay in your car (as a last resort). I’m puzzled, which is better, a car or a ditch?
- Mark on March 20, 2012 at 5:30 pm
  Not an expert, but current expert consensus may be a tossup between a car and ditch. Can’t recall the source, but read of a study of car-related tornado deaths in countries like Canada where seat belts came into vogue much sooner than here. To cut to the chase, it appears seat belt/airbag use greatly helps your chances in a twister.
  But if possible, a strong building is better than either a car or ditch. EF4/5 tornadoes can turn cars into wadded up balls of metal or long range projectiles. At the same time, even a ditch may leave one exposed to lethal flying debris.
blizzardtim on March 20, 2012 at 9:47 am
oh my!! flash back to the high school days of the 80’s…lol… im totally loving this weather …hopefully we arent gonna get a rude awakening before may 1st…after that rude awakenings are just nice cool downs…:)
Pollen is high too yellow coated everything…sneeze,sneeze…cough,cough,cough!!!
Jenn on March 20, 2012 at 11:28 am
Thanks Chris I think your one narly weather dude!!
Sam on March 20, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Just an FYI, saw this on WKYT- the Chik-Fil-A stores in Lexington, Richmond and Georgetown are donating 20% of today’s sales to be used to buy new textbooks for West Liberty Elementary. Pretty cool how a local business has stepped up to help out the kids. 🙂
alena on March 20, 2012 at 2:04 pm
This weather is way too warm. I think we will get a really cold spell in April or May. I hate that too. Don’t want to see all the trees freeze. I remember back in 69 we had warm weather, then in May a really bad freeze and everything turned black. It wasn’t pretty.
rolo on March 20, 2012 at 2:33 pm
well NO MENTION of THUNDERSTORMS for today, well now WEATHER CHANNEL saying chance after the FACT.LOL
rolo on March 20, 2012 at 2:35 pm
BRAD JAMES/FRANK FAULKNER was the ISH back in the day with BRIAN COLLINS coming around as well.

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