Good Monday, everyone. It’s the first full week of August and things are starting out in pretty normal fashion, but that is about to change as a series of cold front settle in. These fronts will increase the rain chances and decrease the temperatures, with some shots of the good stuff blowing in.
Showers and storms drenched parts of southern and western Kentucky over the weekend, but today shouldn’t find as much action. Still, isolated showers and storms will be noted in some spots with temps ranging from 85-90 for many. Humidity levels continue to run on the “not bad” side.
Our first cold front rolls in here late Tuesday into Wednesday, bringing an increase in showers and thunderstorms…
Temps come down with this front then come down a little more with the next front arriving by Friday…
Temps will feel pretty good with that, but bounce back up a few days later. That’s ahead of another cold front by the middle of next week…
This setup is courtesy of those deep troughs digging into the eastern half of the country. These troughs will bring some VERY pleasant temps with them, taking the numbers below normal for this time of year. All of this is happening just in time for the start of the school year. Speaking of… How many of you teachers are already wondering when the first snow day will be? 🙂
I leave you with your isolated shower and storm tracking toys…
Have a great Monday and take care.
Thanks, Chris. Can we now turn the rain taps back on for a bit now?
Sincerely,
Mike
Dry here also in central Kentucky. Temperatures not bad but the high dew point makes it feel somewhat uncomfortable. Could be worse if we had that huge upper level High pressure ridge to our southwest over our region of the country. Speaking of such, that upper level ridge to our southwest could be the big player in the up coming Fall and Winter ?
Weak disturbances ridding the northern edge of the upper ridge to our southwest are producing better chances of thunderstorms just to our northwest but weakening as they move south southeast with very little temperature change and only slightly lowering the dew points. The same as it has been for several days.
My lawn is thirsty.
I hope it can get a drink of water this week.
The Tropics are extremely quiet at present in the Atlantic. Nothing is coming together. Still early though for major development. If we are lucky maybe there won’t be any hurricanes or tropical storms this season ? I was told a number of years ago by a meteorologist if the Atlantic is quiet the Fall and Winter in the eastern half of our country will be colder than normal but I don’t know how valid this theory is ?
With NTI days is there any such thing as a snow day anymore?
Let me ask you this question : Is there ever going to be any real snowstorms ( 12-15 inches) again in the state of Kentucky ? If you check out the twelve month forecast prepared by NOAA you would say NO.
Lexington’s temperature paradox shows up in a big way for July.
‘Officially’, Airport registered 15 days in the 90’s and 8 days of 89 (or almost 90). Mesonet site just twice (3 times if you round up). Can’t blame it on precipitation departure, because there was measurable precipitation for 10 days at both locations.
Greatest anomaly I found was on July 25…Airport 85/58; Mesonet 80/62. Airport was 5 degrees warmer for high temperature, but 4 degrees COOLER at night? Then again, there were several instances of Mesonet readings registering higher low temperatures than the nearby airport. And, then again, there were several instances Mesonet registering low temperatures that were lower than airport. Very inconsistent.
At least in Louisville, the discrepancy between Standiford Field (official) and nearby Bowman Field is pretty consistent…the official location was 0-5 degrees warmer than Bowman Field for BOTH high and low temperatures.
I found out that the digital thermometers can give very inconsistent readings even when they are located correctly, both on the high and low. I like the old mercury thermometers from years back which everyone had hanging in the shade of a Maple tree or just out their north window for being the most accurate. Also for taking a child’s temperature to see if they had a fever.