Good Tuesday, everyone. We are tracking a cold front across the bluegrass state and this is spawning showers and storms, and a drop in temperatures. This front is likely a small preview to the front moving in next week. That one should unleash a period of much cooler air that could rival or exceed what we had last week.
Today’s showers and storms will be more common across central and eastern parts of the state. This won’t be all day rainfall, but locally heavy downpours are a good bet and we could even see a few local high water issues develop. I will have your tracking tools in a bit.
This front slows down just to our south as our trough splits over the next few days. That keeps the threat for scattered showers and storms going, especially in the east and south. The NAM is showing some hot spots of very hefty rain totals through Thursday night…
Temps won’t be too bad at all during this time and generally come in under where they should be…
What happens this weekend may depend on what goes on off the southeast coast. There’s a weak system that may try to become better organized and the National Hurricane Center is watching it and another system well out in the Atlantic…
I do think temps recover some this weekend, but the threat for a shower or storm remains.
The next front shows up at some point next week and should be much stronger than the one blowing through here now…
Check out the blast of cool showing up behind that front…
I leave you with your storm tracking tools for the day…
Have a great Tuesday and take care.
So far in my county of Taylor we received 0.01 inches of rain. Three drops on a brick bat lol. As the cold front gets closer late this afternoon I’m expecting it will add to that total. I hope the stronger cold front forecast to arrive next week will clear our region and go all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. I’m still impress with the huge upper level high pressure system out west and doesn’t show any signs of changing. Hoping for a colder and drier earlier Autumn with lots of foliage color ?
I’m going to study the tropics over the next few days as disturbances off the west coast of Africa are beginning to show up and with the surface sea temperatures being well above normal I wouldn’t be surprised if there is significant development over the next three months ?
I just hope that strong cold front that Chris says will move through here at some point next doesn’t leave behind a cut-off low!
The cold front for next week should not hang up because of the intense high pressure to our west. What could hang it up would be tropical development along the Eastern Seaboard moving around the western edge of the Bermuda High Pressure System in the Atlantic Ocean.