Good Thursday, everyone. We continue with our run of colder than normal temps, but the pattern is showing signs of slowly shifting around again. This is a process that will likely take us from skewing colder than normal to warm and fairly humid as we get ready to flip the calendar from April to May.
Temps are back below the freezing mark to begin the day and will wind up in the 50s this afternoon. Outside of the chill in the air, today’s actually a pretty nice one.
A cold front works into the region late Friday and will give us a healthy temperature spread from north to south. A quick shot of 70 is possible in the south as the north reaches the 50s before dropping late…
Gusty showers and a rumble of thunder will be possible with late Friday with that system rolling out quickly Saturday morning…
That’s bringing a snowstorm to the northern Ohio Valley and I can’t rule out a flake around here as the rain ends. The rest of Saturday looks and feels better.
The Sunday-Monday system does bring a few showers our way, but the models are less organized with it than earlier…
Temps next week are much milder than what we’ve been dealing with this week and could even hit the 70s for a day or two. We are likely to see another shower and thunderstorm maker rolling in here by the middle of the week…
The pattern is likely to flip much warmer than normal as we head into the final week of April. The Ensembles are showing a nice ridge developing that week…
Yes, please!
Make it a good one and take care.
Thanks, Mr Bailey. Nashville dropped to 30 yesterday morning. A bit better now, currently 40.
On this date was the infamous April 16 1998 outbreak. Kentucky and Tennessee had several F3 tornadoes, including one through downtown Nashville. Bowling Green had grapefruit size hail but an F3 tornado remained southeast of town. The so-called “Forgotten F5” occurred in south central TN, one of only two F5s ever recorded in the state (the other was in 1923 at Pinson TN near Jackson TN).
Thanks Mark for sharing the history of notable tornado outbreaks. As I have been reading your post on tornadoes, I have been getting interested in studying these destructive storms and there is still much to learn. Still studying snowstorms and blizzards and finding out that in the coming decade these storms will occur more frequently at the time of the year that they would not be expected to occur.
Thanks Chris, Another hard freeze here in central Kentucky. Current temperature in my backyard is 28 degrees. Some damage was noted on almost every tree that has leaf out and some landscape plants that are not hardy have extensive damage and may not recover. Looking forward to more Spring like weather in the coming days and getting out of the house into the great outdoors.
26.9 degrees on my deck in the Ashland area.
Yess please is right!!!!!
Thanks Chris. It is a beautiful morning this morning! A little cool but the sky is a beautiful springtime blue! You know, the kind that makes you want to go on A picnic! Maybe soon…. I’m glad to hear you talking about warmer weather. It’s about time. Have a great day!
For late tonight through Friday morning, there are Winter Storm Warnings for Western IL for 6 to 10 inches of snow, and Winter Weather Advisories for much of Northern IL, including the Chicago Metro area (except for the northern suburbs near the Wisconsin border).
Here in the SW suburbs, 3 to 6 inches of snow is predicted. Our biggest snowfall this season has been 6.2 inches on March 22nd-23rd. We’re certainly making up for the snow we didn’t get in December, January, and February.
All of this just one week after it hit 80 here last Tuesday, and 74 last Wednesday.
The Lexington official low (and my thermometer at my house) hit 25 two consecutive mornings. That’s only happened twice before this late into the Spring–1983 and 1875. Impressive! As a cold weather fan anytime of year, I like these kind of records.