Good Sunday to one and all. Here’s hoping this update finds each of you enjoying life to the fullest! We are putting the wraps on the weekend with typical early August temps and scattered storms. This action continues for a few more days before a couple of cold fronts drop in from the northwest. That will usher in a cooler setup across the eastern half of the country.
Today’s weather is similar to the past few days as scattered showers and storms go up. This action will be on the strong side and could put down heavy rainfall that can cause local high water issues. The best chance for this is across the south and southeast, but anyone is fair game to see a booming storm. Before you ask… No, it’s not raining all day or even close. 🙂 Your tracking toys will bring up the rear of the blog.
A series of systems will drop in from the northwest for the week ahead. That will bring a few rounds of showers and storms in here as temps drop behind each front…
The GFS wants to keep those fronts sliding in here for the following week, too…
Here are the cooler than normal numbers from the same model run…
Here are your Sunday storm tracking toys…
Make it a great day and take care.
Sounds good to me!
In my opinion, this is not a significant cool down coming up, not even close, especially compared to that refreshing stretch we had a couple of weeks ago. Humidity levels should be kept in check, which always feels great in August, but high temperatures look to stay elevated at or very slightly below normal for Louisville with perhaps a “refreshing” start to the day of low and middle 60’s outside of the heat island. No big deal. I’ve seen this before many times in August. With a dry ground in place locally, things will heat rapidly during the day and cool rapidly at night.
Hopefully, it will get wetter for you with energy diving in from the NW. I agree and think 60s for lows and 80s for highs look to be the coolest days with even the models shows surges of brief above average temps in between fronts!
This year is different from 2018 in that most areas were consistently wetter than average. This year, the precip since early Spring has been much more scattered giving some huge departures on the year while others only small departures above average. It looks like area wide, no one is below average on the year but we are not nearly as widespread way above average as last year was through early August. I am at 43.10 in right now on the year and still neck and neck with last year at this point in the year, but we/I will have to have a very wet fall in order to beat out 2018. Wet autumns like last year are unusual but seem more frequent in the past 20 years.
Lol you know the drill here. Always cooler, always rainy.