Good Tuesday, folks. We are rolling into our looooooong 4th of July holiday period with an increase in showers and thunderstorms. Obviously, that doesn’t bode well for all the outdoor activities we have planned, but it’s not like wall to wall rain. Still, make sure to have some backup plans. 🙂
Let us begin with where we are today and roll ahead. Scattered showers and storms will be noted once again. A few strong storms can put down torrential rains. I’ll have your tracking tools in a bit.
The threat for strong to severe storms looks to increase as we make our way into Wednesday. You can see that threat on the Severe Weather Outlook from the Storm Prediction Center…
Our 4th of July looks to feature scattered storms going up, with the potential for a few waves of stronger storms to work across the state. This isn’t all day rains, but the storms are likely to play a part in some of the parades and fireworks shows.
This pattern will continue through the rest of the holiday weekend. Rounds of thunderstorms can be strong and put down heavy amounts of rain from time to time. The models are still spitting out some hefty totals through Sunday…
Cooler air likely comes in behind that into next week and this is a trend that’s showing up on most of the operational models and then ensembles. It’s also showing up on the seasonal models like the CFS…
Here’s the same model for the final week of July…
How about the first week of August? Well…
That has been a very consistent signal for a while, so we will see how that goes.
Here are your July 2nd storm tracking tools…
Have a great day and take care.
If anyone read this please let me know your thoughts: It’s indirectly related to weather. Take the past few days where we had mostly full sun (for places that didn’t get storms)… At around 330 PM, you can sort of feel it get slightly warmer inside even with the AC running constantly at 90F outside. Here’s what I think – the attic heat. My air handler/ducting is in the attic, no large trees around our house…the attic gets blisteringly hot, and even though I see blown insulation all over the attic which looks adequate, I don’t think it’s enough to keep that hot attic heat from radiating into my single story house. Does anyone else with a similar setup as mine experience this on full sun hot summer days?
Yes. My house has almost no shade and the AC starts to run constantly during evening over 90 outside with my house getting slightly hotter than thermostat temp settings but cools back down at sunset!
1) see if you can find the rating of the insulation.
2) if it is not adequate you can try blowing insulation over top of the insulation you have now.
3) if you decide to blow insulation into your attic consider blowing it down into your side walls ( older homes were not insulating around outside wall)
I think blown insulation should be 6 to 8” above the studs.
Somewhat adequate but 18″ total is standard rule of thumb
MarkLex, You could install thermostat controlled roof fans to bring in air from the outside to push the hot air out ? This helped at my old house.
Our small starter house has one of these fans in the roof and it seems to make a big difference. Even on very hot days, it tends to shut off just before sunset.
We also has a whole house fan in the hallway that came with the house. That fan was one of the last things on our minds when my wife and I were looking at homes. But on hot days/evenings with low dewpoints, it’s fantastic and we save some on the electric bill. We did replace the original whole house fan with a new one as the original was very noisy and the louvers leaked in a lot of winter cold air. It was also a bit disconcerting that the original motor was several decades old.
“…..Mike S says:
July 1, 2019 at 2:55 pm
I am a fanatical data researcher/collector, Schroeder, but I do not know of any extreme amounts of snowfall like that in February 2016 for Taylor county or any other part of the state.
Is it possible you meant 2015? Some of us experienced back to back double digit amounts during mid February to early March. And was it snow depth measured or actual snow accumulation from a single storm? Those could be records for Taylor county, yet my research cannot verify such depths or actual accumulation…..”
Mike S, Yes, your right it was February 2015 when I measured the snowfall total at 28 inches in my backyard. And yes it was from a single storm. The city of Campbellsville, just ten miles southeast of where I live in the hills of Taylor County only had about ten inches of snow. In 2009 the year of the ice storm we had three inches of ice and Campbellsville didn’t have any ice just plain cold rain. Two different climates due to elevation go figure ??
There’s nothing close to anything being documented of that much snow falling from that particular storm in February 2015.
Well Prelude that’s what it measured right at 28 inches of snow. I might add that it almost cave in my back porch falling off the shed dormer. Since then I added a snow guard to the shed dormer so that will never happen again.
Also, MarkLex roofing shingles get hot and hold in the heat and that is a problem in our part of the world. Back in the 1940’s and 50’s, home owners would plant Sugar Maple Trees around their homes to shade the home and more important the roof from excessive heat build up. Opening windows both upstairs and downstairs would cause air to move throughout the home. Of course air conditioners came a lot later. When I was growing up we didn’t have central air conditioning until 1962.
Mike S or Prelude could you please find out for me the amount of snow that was officially recorded in 2015 in Taylor County from that single storm in February ? I’m not that computer literate. I would certainly appreciate it. I will check back later.
https://www.weather.gov/media/jkl/Winter%202014-2015%20Historical%20Perspective.pdf
Thanks Prelude, I must of measured a snowdrift in my backyard LOL. But it seemed like a lot of snow on my roof more than 8 to 12 inches. Wonder where they took the measurement in Taylor County. I would guess the Campbellsville Airport which is about 20 miles southeast of where I live. The record snowfall for Kentucky in a single storm was Simers, Kentucky at 26.0 inches on March third, 1942. The record snowfall for the state of Indiana was at Salem, Indiana at 33.0 inches on December twenty third, 2004. I was living north of Evansville near Dress Regional Airport at that time and at the airport they recorded 22.0 inches of snow. Most snow I ever seen on Christmas Day !
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/snowfall-extremes/KY/2
You can access 1-day, 2-day, and 3-day snowfall totals for each county.
By the way, Simers record of 26″ is for just a 24-hour period of time. Looking at some of these records, I saw a 2-day total of 34″ and a 3-day total of 41″ in the higher elevations of eastern KY
Thanks Mike S for looking this information up for me.
Nothing like talking about snow on the second of July to cool a person off LOL. Have a great afternoon and evening everyone !
If we can get consistent, reliable, up-to-date snowfall measurements from Black Mountain in eastern Harlan county, I can almost guarantee you the record books would be rewritten for snow depth, and the 1-day, 2-day, and 3-day totals for the state of Kentucky.
If they can put a Mesonet station at over 4,000 feet, surely we can receive reliable information for snowfall totals like the ones who provide us these at various ski slopes such as ‘On the Snow’
If memory serves me correctly I do believe it was the Winter of 2004 (don’t hold me to that) where a unofficial report of 34 inches of snow was measured In Shelbyville Kentucky.
It is a shame really as we can’t even get reliable data for small towns like Harlan in the valley either.
During the March Super Storm of 93, I recorded a non-drift total of 30 inches averages over a few different measures. I was a kid, so the data was “unofficial” lol.
I heard that Vlack Mt received 48 inches (non-drift) total from the 1993 Super Storm but I cant verify!
That 48″ on Black Mt is true of the 93 Super storm.