Good Sunday, everyone. We have some showers and thunderstorms on the weather menu for this final day of June. That’s an appropriate end to what has been another super wet month here in the bluegrass state. Unfortunately, the threat for showers and storms may increase a bit into our 4th of July week.
Scattered showers and storms develop out there today, but we will need to focus on our northwestern sky before the day is over. That’s because some big clusters of strong to severe storms may develop and drop in from that direction.
You can see that setup on the current Severe Weather Outlook from the Storm Prediction Center…
Damaging winds and hail will be the primary players with any strong or severe storm that blows up. As always, these storms will also be loaded with lots of lightning (LOL) and torrential rains. The heavy rainfall may be enough to cause high water issues on a local scale.
Additional rounds of showers and storms will target the region over the first few days of July. No, it’s not raining all the time and not everyone sees a lot of rain over the next few days. But, you know the drill with these storms.
The 4th of July and long holiday weekend looks to feature an uptick in showers and storms. Check out the European Model…
Behind all that, we continue to see a signal for another round of cooler than normal weather…
Here is your daily dose of storm tracking toys…
Possible Watch Areas
Make it a great end to June and take care.
Good bye to June 2019. Yesterday, I was outside weeding around the house as I haven’t any landscape plants because they would be a liability here. The high temperature reach 91 degrees and there was only a slight breeze. Dew points are inching their way towards 70 degrees. The last few evenings thunder heads have been developing and been dying out, which is good. I don’t need any lighting especially cloud to ground.
I’m staying inside today where the temperature is a constant 74 degrees and work on my indoor hobby. I like that change to cooler and hopefully drier weather for mid- July. We or I will need a break along with the air conditioner by then. I just hope it pans out by then and last more than one day.
Wonderful weather lately – hot and sunny with the occasional pop up storm – just the way summers ’round here are “meant” to be.
I use to be able to tolerate the heat and work out in the fields in my nursery from sunup to sundown and not be bothered by it one bit and never complained because it wouldn’t do any good if I did. The work will still have to be done no matter what the weather is. That’s a fact. Now fifty or more years later I can’t take the heat anymore but the will to work is still there.
I am only in my 30s, so you must have had your nursery before I was born!
Nursery was started in the 1960’s.
I’ve always heard this phrase ” The Fourth of July is going to be Hotter than a Fire Cracker” while going up in the 1950’s. Back then Fireworks were illegal in the state of Indiana but people would bring them in from other states. How times have changed. I lived without them then and I can live without them now. My family got together every July Fourth for a backyard picnic with lots of food and homemade ice cream hand cranked. I miss though’s “good old days”
Thanks Chris. Trying to get fence posts in place so I am not unhappy that the rain has been scattered. It has been hot for sure but we’ve been able to cool off in the pool for a bit as we work! This is typical summer weather. I’ll take it! Have a great Sunday all. Getting ready to go to church.
WPC is highlighting a good portion of KY for a marginal flash flood risk this evening for training t-storms. While everyone want see a lot rain, it looks like the greatest risk for heavy rain is over SE KY due to upslope flow!
Terry, looks like a “backdoor” front is approaching near or east of Harlan with thundershowers. Your area is on the eastern edge of the high pressure ridge. That’s the way it looked on the water vapor loop about an hour ago.
I think the showers and thunderstorms will subside some as they develop into my area of the state central Kentucky. That’s the way it’s been going since this heat wave started.
Have a great afternoon and hopefully a quiet evening everyone !
It appears that the complex of severe storms in northern Illinois may make a run at KY tonight. It started way up in northern MN/Wisconsin last night and may soon be dubbed a derecho!
Coming back from Cincy my wife and I made a pit stop at Ky. Speedway and felt a few comforting droplets from that “line” that has been trying to form on radar all afternoon.
This stretch of high temps and humidity is something we didn’t have the last two summers. Maybe our normal winter will be back this up coming season as we are more of a typical summer season
What a storm. rained for about 10 min and got 0.75 inches