Good Tuesday, everyone. Hot and humid weather continues to rule the short-term pattern across Kentucky, but the tropics are flexing some muscle and will influence our weather the rest of the week. “Flash” Gordon is zipping through the Gulf of Mexico and is likely to throw moisture at us in the coming days.
Let me begin with the current weather and roll forward. Highs today are back into the upper 80s and low 90s with a heat index making it feel toastier than that. Scattered showers and storms will try to flare up during the afternoon and evening…
Gordon isn’t the most impressive storm ever created, but it has a chance to reach a low end Cat 1 hurricane before coming ashore. That track for landfall is centered around Biloxi, Mississippi, with the inland track continuing to get pushed farther east by the National Hurricane Center…
The GFS has been smoking many of the other models with the handling of Gordon, especially the European. The latest run of the GFS takes what’s left of Gordon north along and just west of the Mississippi River before turning the corner into the northern Ohio Valley this weekend. Watch how all this tropical moisture interacts with a stalled boundary around our region…
The Canadian continues to trend toward the GFS and is now very close to bringing what’s left of Gordon into western and northern Kentucky this weekend…
What does all this mean for us?
- Tropical moisture streams in here Wednesday through Friday and interacts with a stalled front. This type of setup can bring some major rain producing showers and storms our way.
- Humidity levels are going to be absurd.
- As what’s left of Gordon heads into the northern Ohio Valley this weekend, it will bring another big surge of showers and storms with it. That action will be maximized by a cold front moving in at the same time. This means heavy rain will once again be likely.
- Throw all this together and you get, at least, some local high water issues possibly developing at some point.
Temperatures behind all this will actually feel pretty good for a few days early next week, but it’s the tropics that will continue to dictate the overall pattern. Florence and a soon to be named system are out in the Atlantic…
Florence is going to have to fight off a couple of troughs if it’s going to make a run at the east coast of the United States next week. The GFS has it getting close, but recurving well offshore…
The Canadian is is MUCH closer to the east coast…
I will hook you up with another update later today. Make it a good one and take care.
Tropical Storm Gordon is affecting our weather in the Ohio Valley by keeping our skies clear for the time being. I hope this is not going to be our Autumn weather pattern ?
Ummmmm nooooo the high pressure that we have in place is keeping the Ohio Valley hot and humid with clear sky’s. Not tropical storm Gordon.
What energy that’s in the upper level high pressure system which is currently over the Ohio Valley is being robbed by Tropical Storm Gordon, thus the clear skies and easterly winds aloft. The current upper level winds over the US and Canada at the present do not favor for a very cool Autumn.
Schroeder there is no energy being robbed by Gordon in the Ohio Valley. We are under the influence of high pressure a complete separate identity that has zero to do with Gordon. High pressure is not allowing much of anything to come our way in the very short term. High pressure is controlling our weather right now, not Gordon. (Gordon will be a factor in a few days in the Ohio Valley.) Gordon has nothing to do with what’s going on in our weather at the present. It’s the ring of fire, energy that try’s to head our way gets shoved up and around us. This would still be the case if Gordon never formed.
All weather events has to do with electrical magnetic charges. Positive to negative and vice versa.
Whatever the case, seems most of KY is out of the main action and the pressure is actually making the flow go over over and around our state. Trippy.
Storms like water always follow the lease path of resistance. The weak cold front to our northwest will absorb what’s left of the low pressure and most of the rainfall will be west and north of the state of Kentucky unless the path changes more to the east as it makes landfall. Southeast Kentucky counties are on the dry side and could use a good soaking.
The current track is a bit too far NW for far SE KY to get much rain from Gordon but track is slowly correcting more east. Central and Western KY don’t need what appears to be setting up for those locations later in the week. Possibly a flood event!