Good Tuesday, everyone. It’s another day of tropical rains increasing from west to east as the remnants of Hurricane Barry turn the corner into the Ohio Valley. This action looks to hang around for a few more days before a few days of real deal heat move in. Following that, we continue to see growing signs of a trough becoming established in the east.
What’s left of Barry is taking center stage today as rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms target the western half of the state. This is an area that can fire up a few strong to severe storms going up. Here’s the Severe Weather Outlook from the Storm Prediction Center…
Farther east, the action is more scattered in nature, but any storm going up will put down torrential rains. Here are your tracking toys for the day…
Showers and storms are fairly widespread for Wednesday and we will continue to watch for torrential rains that can cause flash flooding once again.
Scattered showers and storms will be noted on Thursday and Friday as a surge of heat moves in for the weekend. Temps may very well hit the low 90s with a heat index several degrees toastier than that.
This shouldn’t last long as a strong cold front drops in from the northwest early next week. This could bring some big time boomers in here…
That unleashes a cooler brand of air and some of the models like that hanging around a while…
We shall see how much staying power it has, but I’ll take it.
Make it a great day and take care.
Here in Southern Ohio it’s been in the low to middle 90’s every day for quite awhile now. There saying the heat index will be as high as 111 degrees later this week.
I thought Barry would be better organized.
Is it possible that some areas in the state might not receive any rain?
The negative part of Barry is back where the low started maybe it will go back to the Gulf and start again. Impossible ? Maybe not.
The negative part of Barry is back where the low started maybe it will go back to the Gulf and start again. Impossible ? Maybe not.
All I know it has been a major disappointment so far.
Yep. One of the least impactful tropical events for KY in recent years as most have at least brought widespread rainfall, some heavy events. Barry has brought only isolated rain and most of it is due to a stalled frontal boundary! Main factor was a too far west track with the main low, and this affected the forecast for KY.
From the remnants of Barry, Taylor county received only 0.01 inches of rainfall yesterday evening. What I call three drops on a “brick bat.”
The coming ” Heat Wave ” forecast to develop this weekend will be brutal but I was expecting this, because it’s Summer in the Ohio Valley. The cooler weather models later I would call ” Eye Candy. ” LOL
The coming heat wave will be rather ordinary, by heat wave standards, and short-lived. Gotta be prepared for it but it shouldn’t last too long. Barry may yet provide us some rain in the Central/Eastern part of the state. At least, that’s what my drying tomato plants are hoping for.
Imagine that… saying we need rain… I actually don’t remember the last time I said that around here.
It is still very wet on the year as far as year-to-date , but it is dry short-term in some areas which is just as bad for a garden than too much. Harlan is actually about perfect right now as most of the rain is missing but not all of it since mid June with a few rain events at my house. Look at how close I live to Knox Co. It has been storm after storm there and always moves towards Harlan Co when weather systems move out of the west. Since late June, almost every storm in Knox Co. has died out in Bell before reaching me as the topography shears the cloud tops to death. It is all about LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION more so this time of the year than the cold season!
What is an ordinary heat wave ? And what are heat wave standards ? I’ve given up on Cyclone Barry for any significant rain events for my county of Taylor. I guess everything that’s green will likely turn brown where I live. Now, I will have to worry about forest fires around my home. You need to water your tomato plants or they will get blossom end rot due to higher night temperatures in the mid- 70’s along with higher dew points in the upper 70’s-80 degrees. When it comes to gardening you don’t wait on rain. 101 horticulture
Schroeder, take a deep breath and relax.
I would call low-mid 90s an ordinary heat wave around here. Anything upper 90s and above like we had in 2012 I would call extraordinary. That’s the only reason I said “ordinary.” Just my opinion.
As for the tomatoes – yeah we’ve already decided if Barry doesn’t bring us anything, we’ll get out the sprinkler.
Jamie, I didn’t mean to come off as rude. I hope you gets some rain today and tonight for your tomatoes.
I had to use my city water to wet the rest of the ground surrounding my plants. Unfortunately, just watering around the base of my plants with collected rain from my barrel is not enough. Since I’m growing sweet potatoes, also, I don’t want the area just beneath the ground to get too dry…still only 0.02″ for July and the 13th consecutive day without measurable rainfall at my place.
City water contains a compound called chloramines. It’s treated to drink not to irrigate gardens. It may be okay only in the short term. Also the pH is likely too high for any plant. When I had my nursery I had two 5000 gallons tanks buried in the ground to irrigate my plants with rain water and to propagate Azaleas. I hope you get rain soon on that garden nothing worse than doing all that hard work and ending up with a poor harvest as no one really knows how long this heat wave is going to last and I think it has already started.
Yes, I’ve noticed a huge difference in using collected rainfall…increases yields. I only have a 66 gallon barrel and a modest 200 square foot garden. But over the past 4 years, rainfall here has been mostly consistent, so no need for tap watering with city water, and my barrel had always been between 70 and 100 percent of full capacity. But my tomato plants and my pepper plants are not as robust this year compared to the last 4 years, and the barrel presently is at about 20 percent. Looking forward to some much needed rainfall
Everyone have a great evening !
You too!