Good Saturday and welcome to the final weekend of August. After a very nice past several days, we are heading back into a rather steamy and stormy pattern to close out the month. Scattered boomers are on the move this weekend and will only increase as we head into the new week.
Not everyone will see showers and storms today, but we will be watching the northwestern sky for the action to drop into Kentucky. Any shower or storm that goes up could put down torrential rains before moving on.
Track away…
Scattered storms will continue to develop into Sunday as very steamy air continues to move into the state. Areas of the west can make a run at 90, with low and middle 80s in the east.
Locally heavy rains are possible this weekend and that’s showing up on some of the model rain numbers…
Does that surprise anyone? Look at how far above normal we are on the year…
Yep, those are some 20″ above normal rain spots showing up.
Steamy temps will be standard into early next week, with a scattering of showers and storms continuing. The action will really increase by the middle and end of the week. Tropical moisture is streaming in from the Gulf of Mexico as a trough inches closer from the northwest. The end result could be rounds of heavy rain producing showers and storms through the start of the Labor Day Weekend…
Another system may dive in around Labor Day, with some additional action into the first week of September…
We will also need to watch the Gulf or the southeastern coast for potential tropical development.
Have a great Saturday and take care.
Jeepers, the weather forecasts last night (not CB) said it was going to be a nice weekend- CB’s makes more sense. Can’t we all just get along?
I notice that Harlan is about the driest county in the state for 2018 and I am still at 46.10 in year-to-date☺. As wet as it has been this year, at least I have seen more dry spells down my way than Centrral KY. Some of you all have to already be at or exceeded annual average rainfall through August 25th!
Actually,which I find it hard to believe,Louisville is near normal.
Not even close. Louisville is 12.46″ above normal for the year. The 43.13″ through Friday is just shy of the annual norm of 44.91″.
Perhaps you were referring to the annual norm that ends December 31. Going by that, we are near normal…as long as it does not rain more than 1″ for the rest of the year.
A drought is bound to happen in the Ohio Valley within the next few years if an El Nino develops. This all depends if the AO and NAO stay in the positive phase.