Good Thursday everyone and welcome to a massive late June heat wave across the bluegrass state. Temperatures over the next few days will be among the warmest readings ever recorded in the month of June in parts of Kentucky. Triple digit heat begins today and will likely show up somewhere across the state each day through the upcoming weekend.
There isn’t a whole lot more for me to add to all this so here’s a brief breakdown…
– Temps today will hit 100-105 in the west and will range from the mid 90s to around 100 for much of the central and east.
– Similar readings will be noted for Friday and Saturday with some areas adding a degree or two from today’s highs.
– The all time June record temp for Kentucky is 110 degrees. That is in jeopardy. 114 is the hottest temp ever recorded in the state.
– The silver lining with this heat wave will be the fairly low humidity levels. This heat will basically be like what you feel when you open up an oven door.
– We will be watching for scattered storms firing up just to our north Friday and Saturday. Some of these MAY drop a little farther southward into Kentucky at some point. If that happens… it will have an impact on local temps.
– The hot weather looks to last through much of your 4th of July week. Some of the models do try to bring a better chance of scattered boomers in here next week. #fingerscrossed
Today’s heat trackers…
Current Temperatures
Today’s Highs
Here’s what you need to know about the heat…
Stay cool and have a great Thursday. Take care.
In about 10 hours I am getting my wisdom teeth cut out, so I will likely be laid up through most of this heat wave, lol.
In all seriousness, please be careful out there, people. And be sure to check on pets, elderly, and the disabled.
Thanks for the update, Chris. I might be heading for the Smokies this weekend. The temps have got to be a bit cooler at 6,000 feet!
It’s gonna get hot folks. Keep a check on outdoor pets and be smart in this type of heat!
I’m still skeptical of 100°F here, but it will obviously be hot regardless. Model trends have been a little high on afternoon peak temps. here lately, which is surprising considering the lack of moisture in the soil.
102°F at a couple of mesonet sites already in west KY. Here, we’re in the mid-90s. Can we hit 100 or not?
It’s right at 99F at my house in the big heat island of Louisville. The local teevee stations are reporting 97 and 98 in the metro so it might as well be 100.
What we need is a good three day soaking rain without the threat of thunderstorms and severe weather—unfortunately that looks like too much to ask for right now.
Looks like I am WRONG this time. Mesonet sites are hitting 100 as we speak. The dry ground is just torching the air.
And to think we have two more days of this to go!
Looks like will all save money on lawn care this summer, my yard was just recovering from the drought of a few years ago, oh well, all we can do is hope for rain??
Dry HOT air must be easier on the AC than HUMID HOT air. My AC is having no trouble this afternoon keeping the temp at 71 and it’s 100 exactly outside right now.
I noticed the same thing. Our AC is not running all that much today.
I am worried about our horses but they are actually standing in the sun. They have a huge field full of trees but they are in the sun. The breeze is helping, I’m sure.
I hung out some laundry to dry and checked about 20 minutes later and there was no dampness to be found.
So this is what they mean by “dry heat”. Being from south Texas, it was a phrase I heard a lot because the Gulf Coast is never low on humidity. I can tolerate this, but am hoping for rain ASAP.
Over a 100 here and by far the warmest day of the year, but I must say it feels better today then it has some other days we have had this year. This dry heat isn’t that bad.
Quite frankly, It is HOT out, but I think a 90 degree day with high humidity feels a lot worse than this.
We are sitting at 102 at my house in northern Jessamine County. However, I had to drive to downtown Lexington and watched the temperature rise 4 degrees on my car temperature gauge by the time I got around Triangle Park. I then watched it fall back four degrees as I got back out into the countryside.
I was told that 23 acres in Bourbon County burned today. The location is very close to me. The wind that is making the heat somewhat less intense is not good when people are careless with fire.
This is Southwest heat. It reminds me of being in the desert in California (or walking down the strip in Vegas in Aug).
At my house in Lawrenceburg, we topped out at 101 today with a heat index of 104 at 16:43 this afternoon.
I agree that its not that bad.. Yea its getting all the big headlines because its triple digits but the thick, sticky air with high dew points feels much much worse. I was out earlier and broke a sweat, sat down to rest and was com-pletely dry in 10 minutes. The big story is not the heat but the dry conditions farmers are facing.
104.2 deg in the shade at my house. in the sun it said 120 deg! atleast the humidity isnt bad! but this dry heat makes it hard to breath!!
Both Owensboro and nearby Evansville are 106.
St Louis is 108, even if a dry heat.
It’s fun to see how much temperatures on outdoor bank signs vary. Driving home from work, I saw two readings of 103 and 108 within minutes of each other! Nashville is officially 102 at the moment (down from a high of 104), but the dewpoint is only 48 so heat index is just 99.
If our country ever goes metric, perhaps the 40 degree Celsius mark might become the new benchmark for heat, although 40 C equals about 104 F. Still, a couple of places have even hit 40 C.
According to http://www.weather.com, the official high for Keavy was 101° recorded at 5:25 p.m. It is showing 106° for tomorrow here in Keavy. Again, this is what TWC is predicting for us here in Keavy. Hearing talk of possible 110° around here in a few spots. We will see. Good job Chris with the heatwave and you stay cool too. You warn us, we warn you. LOL