Good Saturday everyone. Widespread drought denting rains have been working across much of the state over the past few days. Not everyone has been getting in on the act, but this is only the start of a rather stormy period across the state. Everyone should finish the weekend with a nice drink of water as boomers do their thing.
Much of southern, eastern and parts of central Kentucky have already picked up 1″-3″ of rain over the past two days. Others… not so much. Take a look at the sharp cutoff in the radar rain totals for Thursday and Friday…
Areas of northern and western Kentucky have been shut out, so far. That changes today with widespread showers and storms going up across the entire state. These storms will be slow movers and that will combine with a tropical atmosphere to produce some very heavy rain. This may lead to localized flash flooding problems.
The forecast for Sunday looks very similar to today with storms blowing up during the afternoon and evening.
The weather all the way through next week will feature more of the same… a tropical feel with a daily threat for showers and storms. I wouldn’t be surprised to get into an environment that features more in the way of storm clusters working in from the west or northwest.
Let’s get back to the storm tracking of today…
Have a great Saturday and take care.
No rain yet outside etown ky.
By entire state, did you mean Indiana or Tennessee?
Here we go again, day 3 of the forecasted big rains and all the rain is forming north, west, south of Frankort area, Indiana getting in on some good rains and they were suppose to have a much less chance Of precip. than my area, go figure?????
I hope the rain south of Bowling Green makes its way to Louisville.
Well, the radar IS lit up like a Christmas tree. Now, let’s just hope none of the bulbs burn out!
The precipitation dome over Louisville has been ruptured. Liquid is actually falling from the sky.
Never mind, just a false alarm. Barely enough to make my back porch slightly damp. Sun coming back out. Shields are back at full strength.
Frankfort dome holds strong, just watched a nice shower south us fade to dust as it came toward are area, heavy rains developing over most of the state but it dies over Frankfort? Never seen weather pattern like this!
Sunny in Frankfort at 1:25 !
No rain in Richmond today yet, either—so don’t feel bad. We usually get more rain when there’s a 30% chance here than when there’s a 90% chance.
No rain in Shelbyville. It’s hard to believe looking at the radar that we won’t get wet but every single little cell is to the north, to the south, to the east and to the west. What’s up with that?
Just torrential downpours here in Louisville. The rain shield has completely floundered and we are just getting soaked. I never doubted you for a second Chris.
Here’s to it raining soon in Shelbyville and Frankfort.
this stuff is way too scattered. We need wide spread rains. Not hit and miss. Parts of Tenn last week got 4-5 inches like Chris’ map shows. We got notta. How’s that work??
RAIN in Frankfort, some places it is coming down hard, my area of town light to moderate with thunder in the distance! I’ll take what I can get at this point.
Still have only had a few sprinkles at my house in Nicholasville. It seems to go to the west and east of us and the stuff moving in seems to dissipate!
About .35in of rain here on silver lake in Frankfort, much more bark than bite for our area, but it is a start, I hope???
still nothing here today! : ( want some rain please!!!!!!
We have had over 2.5 inches of rain in Forkland, KY over the last 10 days! Time to gas up the lawnmower!
We picked up over 4 inches in under 2 hours according to NWS in Paducah. Many roads were flooded, but it’s a nice evening now though
Got two really good downpours here today. It’s a great start!
I had over an inch at my house. In yards where people had not been watering you can’t even tell that it rained. It either soaked in really fast or just runoff from the rock hard ground. I’m feeling lucky about Sunday.