Good Monday, everyone. Strong storms and high winds are rolling across the state to begin the day. This is ahead of our potent storm system we’ve been talking about for about a week. It’s also ushering in much colder air and that could bring a touch of winter weather this week. Sigh!
Let’s begin with what’s going on out there this morning then look ahead. A line of strong to severe storms is possible ahead of our deepening low. The winds are going to continue to crank with our without storms. Quite a bit of wind damage has already been reported.
Heavy rains may also cause some local high water issues. Here are your tracking tools…
Colder and drier winds blow this afternoon as temps drop into the upper 40s and low 50s. Tuesday and Wednesday are cold days around here and we have the chance for a wave of low pressure to bring some light rain and light snow late Tuesday into Tuesday night. The best chance of this is across central and eastern Kentucky. Watch how the NAM sees this well and sees another snow system just to our north after that…
Another freeze may follow that up Wednesday morning as temps drop into the 20s…
Temps stay way below normal into the weekend as another chilly shower maker sweeps through. We aren’t quite done with the chilly shots, but the pattern starts relaxing through next week. As a matter of fact, when this pattern breaks, it’s likely to break toward very warm and humid.
I will have another update later today. Have a good one and take care.
Tornado in Atlanta area. Wow!
Mike, just got through watching live video out of Atlanta, Georgia. They are waiting to access the damage as it get lighter. It looks like a lot of trees down all over.
Thanks Chris, It started raining here in central Kentucky late yesterday afternoon. No wind, no severe weather to report from my area. According to the Kentucky Mesonet we received 1.36 inches of rain, storm total in last 48 hours. Forecasters are predicting a “quiet weather” week ahead. I sure hope we do not go from Winter to Summertime weather, but to tell you the truth I’m ready for Summer with several warm and dry days as I have lots of outdoor work to get done.
As a few of you know, my parents live in the Chattanooga/Cleveland TN area. Other than losing power, they were otherwise fine.
It will be interesting to see what the NWS survey turns up. Looks like the tornado near Chattanooga may have been an EF2 with mostly EF0/EF1 damage….. if my non-professional observations of news coverage are correct.
Hope everybody is staying safe.
Thanks for sharing…thought of you and your family. We had family that lived near Chattanooga about 7 years ago. We used to stop there on our way back from Florida. Best I can remember, it was a few miles past the I75/I24 split, becomes I75 North to a highway US 11 and US 64. It was in a ritzy subdivision about 10 minutes from the Cracker Barrel. But, if you could have heard the concerns from the first responders on the the scanner, it was such a helpless situation, debris blocking roads, flooding, trying to reach residences, some responders saying it would take at least an hour or so just to reach those most affected, and some had injuries that needed immediate attention. Kudos to those men and women for their efforts.
Update: NWS Morristown TN has preliminary indications of an EF3 at Chattanooga. Unfortunately, two fatalities.
I know US64 and that Cracker Barrel very well.
My siblings and I spent our teen years in the Chattanooga area although we were closer to Cleveland TN.
At least my parents and I have easily contacted each since this EF3 hit.
But in the aftermath of the infamous April 27 2011 outbreak, downed lines/towers and overloaded circuits made phone communications impossible. A long unnerving eternity seemed to p`a`s`s before my brother finally discovered our parents were safe. Turned out an EF4 tornado missed our parents by less than eight miles.
It always seems in Kentucky over the last 8 years that we are always just a week away from the pattern breaking.