Good Sunday, everyone. A weak cold front is dropping into the region today as offshoot tropical moisture streams into the region ahead of Barry. This tropical moisture will increase in the days ahead as the remnants of Barry roll into the Ohio Valley, bringing heavy amounts of rain our way.
As always, we begin with today and roll forward. Our boundary will combine with some tropical moisture to kick off a few showers and storms. This isn’t an all day rain and not everyone will even see rain, but any storm that’s out there can put down very heavy rains in a short amount of time. Local flash flooding issues may very well develop. Here are your trackers for the day…
What’s left of Barry rolls this way from Monday through early Thursday. This won’t be constant rains, but a general 1″-3″ will fall across the state during this time. Higher amounts will be possible for some areas and those are the areas that can experience flash flooding issues.
Humidity levels will be sky high, but high temps come way down.
Once the remnants of Barry slide to our east, a surge of heat is building into the plains and Midwest. This setup can sometimes produce thunderstorm clusters riding the ridge into our region. Some of the models are hinting at this potential next weekend…
Hot temps are likely to surge in here into next week and could give us a nice little run of real deal heat before a trough tries to dig into the eastern part of the country.
I told you that tropical systems can REALLY alter the overall pattern and Barry is certainly doing just that.
Enjoy your Sunday and take care.
Need a good soaking here in Valley Station, since I’m part of the “have nots” club this month…only 0.02″ for July at my place.
1 day out of the past 19 here. Drove through the neighborhood and everything in now brown-no mowing, nothing. Really need a drink of water.
I thought the models were showing a couple of months ago that we were going to have a cooler summer.
Weather changes by the mili- second and weather models can’t keep up.
I was thinking the same thing.
I more or less discount Tropical Storm Barry for any relief in the form of any rainfall for my county of Taylor. I just wonder how much of the news on Tropical Storm Barry is overplayed ? Yesterday, Barry reached hurricane status briefly and back to Tropical Storm status. Has to be the shortest lived hurricane in history ? I have relatives that live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and they would have called me if there was any severe flooding due to excessive rainfall. Chris, in his blog this morning mention that ” real deal heat ” is on the way after the remnants of Barry has past to our east. I just hope we are not going into a weather pattern of frequent heat waves that last well into Autumn and Winter ?
Barry went even farther west than even the EURO first thought. Stinks! 1,000 miles west of SE KY. LOL
Terry your right now there showing further west of were I live here in far western ky. We might get the leading edge of but not the brute of it once thought
The famous NW shift has about always been a forecast bender, but since early 2018, it seems the model bias for weather patterns is WAY OFF to the northwest with both precip and temps days to weeks out! If we all lived about 500 to 700 miles NW of KY, we would have had an epic winter this past season as people in northern Illinois and Iowa on NW had a brutal, snowy winter. We are not even close to the cooler thn average July predicted back in early June. Models are terribly too far SE with both temps and rain predictions over the past two years:(
I think all the wind coming out of the Weather Channel people’s mouth’s had something to do with it. Lol.
LOL!
That’s funny, I watch the weather channel this morning and some of there reporters act like they were disappointed the storm didn’t come as strong they thought it would.. Sometimes I think they overreact just try get there ratings up
In my opinion it’s the warmer than normal Gulf of Mexico due to an active ( Sunspots ) cycle that we just came out of. Now we have entered a Solar cycle ( not as many Sunspots ) and it’s going to take years before we see any reduction in surface sea temperatures because water cools off slowly. My sister lives in Florida and I call her every week and she told me that the current temperature of the Gulf of Mexico is 90 degrees ! No wonder Terry that Kentucky hasn’t seen much winter here lately. We all will have to go north and far away from the hot water of the Gulf to get a normal Winter here in Kentucky. LOL
It looks like Knox Co. is hogging all the rain again! I hope some of those cells can move over into Harlan later as my new trees need water and I am in TN at the moment and can’t water for new root establishment.
What species of trees did you plant ? And when did you plant them ? Are they evergreens or deciduous ? Maybe someone could water them for you. If I wasn’t three hours away from Harlan I’d water them for you, but I don’t drive anymore. Trees are a great expense and I have planted thousands and always worried if they were getting enough water and fertilizer. I’ll pray for a heavy rain in Harlan today or tonight.
Have a great Sunday afternoon and a pleasant quiet evening everyone.
Looks like we’re going get this rain after all its headed right at us here in western ky. Sorry Chris I should have know better not to misjudge your work. It look like it was going further west of us at first.
I am jealous of all the people getting these brown tinted lawns. That is the way summers are supposed to be. It’s a lush green rain forest in Knox county. Rained 75% of the days in the last three weeks or so with many of the rains being downpours. I would gladly share a few of those days for the ones needing a lawn watering. My lawn and shrubs are all growing out of whack with all the moisture.
You really have there! Harlan typically does poor during the warm t-storm season as the topography shears cloud tops to death unless we have the right directional movement and atmospheric conditions…then a good cloud burst will happen. We are still getting enough though to keep the lawns green as we are getting a rainfall about once every three to four days. I am at 1.60 on the month.
Someone needs to head to northern Scott County and blow that rain 6 miles south where we need it.