Good Thursday, everyone. We have made it to the month of August and that means school will be starting soon for kiddos across the bluegrass state. Anyone else find that hard to believe? Regardless, time is undefeated and the year rolls into a new month with a few scattered showers and storms going up.
Just like Yesterday, the storms today will feature the best threat for storms across the central and eastern areas of the Commonwealth. These storms can bring torrential rains that can lead to flash flooding issues in a few spots. Your tracking toys are coming your way in a few.
This same setup is likely to be with us as we roll into the weekend. There’s even the chance we see an uptick in the action…
You will also notice the action off the southeastern seaboard. That still has a chance to become something tropical, but the system behind it is likely to become the stronger of the two…
That system could make a run at the southeastern part of the country late next week. That could happen a fairly deep trough digs in across the eastern half of the country. The GFS continues with a fairly interesting look next week…
It’s going to be fun to see how that potential tropical system impacts our weather, likely from an indirect standpoint. With a deep trough itching to settle into the country, some wild weather maps may show up.
As usual, I leave you with your storm tracking toys…
Have a great day and take care.
YES! In response to Chris’s question, “Anyone else find that hard to believe?”, I have never seen a year go by this fast! Yes, I know time seems to go by faster as we age; however, this year has seemed to go by faster than ever and even younger people have commented to me on this lately. Is it technology that just consumes us and we FEEL like time is going by faster than it use to? Is it the rain?—-did it wash away our time, LOL:) Seriously, it does seem that time went by faster than ever this year.
Back to weather for I become judged as a rambling loon on here, I am at 42.90 inches of annual-to-date on the year with July at average here, 4.88 for my monthly total. Now, August usually begins the downward slope of LESS RAIN ON AVERAGE, but we all know how 2018 was wetter in the fall than during the summer! I actually received over 20 inches last year in meteorological fall! September through November is NORMALLY drier than the rest of the year but 2018 was insanely wet during that time. Will 2019 be a repeat? Right now, I am neck and neck with 2018 but have lost ground lately. The only way we will be wetter than 2018 is to have another super wet fall…we will watch and see. I think we stay wet myself!
Terry, I’m glad you commented about this year seeming to move faster. Now I don’t feel so alone in thinking this. I’m afraid to blink since I’m not ready for Christmas yet.
I am glad I am not 100% nutty:) I swear it seems faster than ever.
Ah, August! My least favorite weather month and in some ways my least favorite month of the year. August weather is usually boring……Maybe this August will be different.
I don’t know if August will be different for you, but last year we had a wet stretch of days in Louisville with nearly 4″ during that time along with a maximum wind gust of 52 mph. But, typically, August is boring weather and is my least favorite month of the year because I knew since summer was fading quickly, I would have to go back to school. I still have nightmares about trying to find my cl@ssroom in a school the size of Freedom Hall and a subject I wasn’t excited about, and finally showing up 5 minutes late, there’s a test waiting for me I must have completely forgotten about and did not study for, wondering is this how the rest of the semester is going to be?
Mine too. Not ever year, but some years, August through October gives us that boring ‘California’ weather. I hate endless sunshine, LOL.
It’s difficult to imagine being a meteorologist this time of year in the Los Angeles/San Diego area. Same boring sunny forecast for weeks if not months. At least closer to Arizona you get the summer monsoon which makes things somewhat more interesting.
But even in our part of the county, the typical t-showers from the mere heating of the summer humidity….kind of meh. This time of year, I have to look elsewhere for weather with interesting dynamics. True, hurricane season is starting to wind up which is very interesting although the devastating effects on lives and property tend keep any excitement in check.
I couldn’t live out in the Desert SW only for that reason! It is so neat looking out that way with desert flora and all but the weather (lack of) would kill me. I am too much of a weather Geek to endure endless sunshine and very little changeable weather!
The Month of August was always the month with the highest water bills after I ran out of rain water for irrigating my nursery stock. We never started school until after Labor Day where I grew up in southwest Indiana and finish for the year in late May when we all went to work on the farms. I wish I had a time machine so I could go back to my younger years. Today’s world I would like to forget.
Louisville recorded its 12th driest July on record with 1.31″.
I recorded 1.80″ for the month and am now at 37.41″ for the year.
My backyard in Knox County ended up with 8.44 inches of rain for July and for the year 46.46
Your precip-to-date is very close to Knox Co’s Mesonet. Mine is 9 inches less than Harlan Mesonet but my location is nearly 20 air miles away and about 3,000ft lower in elevation, LOL. I like following the data, but Harlan Mesonet just doesn’t reflect the weather that most in Harlan see as the temps are always at least 10 to 15 degrees colder way up there where no one lives compared to valley locations along with much more snow in the winter:)
I could care less what the Knox mesonet site says as its not in my backyard.