Good Wednesday and welcome to the last day of the month. We are wrapping up July with a few showers and storms going up, with temps a smidge cooler than we should be for this time of year. The scattered storms potential looks to roll into the first few days of August, as we wait for a stronger front and cooler push of air next week.
Today’s showers and storms will be much more prominent across central and eastern parts of the state. Just like yesterday,some of these storms may put down a lot of water in a short amount of time, leading to a local flash flood threat. I will have your tracking toys in a bit.
The weather for Thursday and Friday looks VERY similar, with the eastern half of the state seeing the bulk of the action. The models continue to hint at more heavy rains during this time…
Remember, models don’t handle thunderstorms very well, so some areas will likely come in much higher than that through Friday.
The weekend looks mainly dry, but we still can’t shake a storm or two as temps are fairly pleasant for this time of year.
It’s also at this point when the tropics may become more of a player in the overall pattern. One system continues to spin toward the southeastern seaboard, but the one behind it out in the Atlantic has the best chance at becoming a storm…
All of this is happening as a deep trough looks to dive into the eastern half of the country. How those two interact will be interesting to watch. The latest GFS shows the trough diving in here with cooler air and keeping the storm off the east coast…
That could make for a very interesting weather map!
As I wrap up this post, here are your storm tracking tools of the trade…
Have a great final day of the month and take care.
WOW! Although Harlan missed the bulk of the heavy rain that counties to my near west and in VA received per usual, I had a very mean storm hit my area yesterday around 12:30 daytime while I was away at work. It was by far the worst storm so far this year, and I missed it LOL. A locust tree in my yard was all twisted up, neighbors trees everywhere had limbs broken/twisted up, power was out a while, etc! Radar showed the storm as a very intense cell but no warning. I bet winds had to exceed at least 50 miles per hour with the localized damage my community had…not very late July like type of t-storms but more like spring for sure!
Terry, hope things get back to normal for you. We miss out on the storms just a little thunder in the distance and only 0.21 inches of rain recorded. A couple of weeks ago we had a storm that twisted the top out of an Oak tree in my yard. The damage look like an F0 tornado the way it was twisted. It doesn’t have to storm to take out our power. We had a power failure just the other day that lasted five hours and I had to start the portable generator. After that we totally lost our phone service for a whole week and just got back on line yesterday and no reason for the outage given. Terry, it’s always something that’s going to go wrong in life.
True. I hope things get better for you. Life is rough but we just have to focus on any blessings to get through. Easier said than done I know!
It’s been a rough year for my health and the little things that go wrong especially the month of July. I’ve been looking ahead at all the weather models and maps and it is looking like the Fall and Winter in the eastern one third of our country will be much below normal in temperature and near normal in precipitation. Good for snow lovers and ski resorts in the east. This is not a forecast just the conclusion I came to except based on my findings which are not scientific.