Good Tuesday everyone. The heat wave is just beginning to crank up across the state and will reach full strength by Wednesday and Thursday. Temps hit the low and mid 90s Monday and will easily reach the middle 90s for the next few days. I say bring it on. 
There isn’t much that can be said about the hot weather… it’s here and all we can do is sweat it out. Highs today will generally be within a degree or two of 95 in many areas. Track the highs today with the near real time information from the good folks at Kentucky Mesonet…
Wednesday into Thursday will be the hottest temps of this heat wave and could easily be the hottest of the entire summer of 2010. Highs in the middle 90s will be common with a shot at a few upper 90s. Factor in the high humidity levels and heat index values will likely top 100 degrees. That is dangerous stuff there so take it easy outdoors this week.
And just think… the core of the heat will be off to our east along the east coast where highs will top 100 degrees!
The good news in all this is a cold front will move in here later Friday into early Saturday. Showers and thunderstorms will increase during this time and the front will bring cooler air to us by the weekend. Here is what the GFS looks like Friday evening…
Highs this weekend will cool all the way down into the mid and upper 80s. 
That doesn’t sound cool… but it will certainly feel it after this week.
I mentioned several days ago to watch the tropics as they might try to pop something close to home. The National Hurricane Center is watching a couple of spots for possible development…
Ok… have a great day and try to beat the heat. Take care.
This weather is the reason I don’t mow my grass short in the Spring like the neighbors. My grass can now withstand this better.
Having said that… it’s still time for the sprinklers. Next week is looking slightly more promising for rainfall.
I have a question for y’all. How do the forecasters “know” that the high over the east coast will break down and move away by Friday? I’m not questioning that it will happen — I certainly hope it happens! I am asking how all the patterns come together to make such a strong system move. There have been plenty of summers where such a high stayed in place for weeks at a time. This one is very intense but won’t be around for long, thank goodness. I just want to know how the computers see what will happen days in the future. Thanks!
Grass is not supposed to be crispy. I’m working on my rain dance.
http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=KYZ086&warncounty=KYC121&firewxzone=KYZ086&local_place1=Heidrick+KY&product1=Heat+Advisory
my poor water bill is gonna be crazy!! trying to keep my yard from looking like the desert south west….:(
on a COOLER NOTE!! its only 168 days until winter!!!!…. 🙂
i hope this winter makes up for this summers boringness. and in past la nina’s, there have been huge snowstorms across the area. just a side note.
Well not all, but a lot of it is based upon what is known to have happened in the past. Once you learn A happened because of B…you can start to program that stuff into the model. Eventually, there is enough data in there that the model can get a picture of the entire pattern and what is likely to happen based on what we have already seen before. The model is thinking “So there is a high centered here…and a front there…and a trough there.. AH..I’ve seen this before!” and then it’ll spit out what should happen next.
Maybe the Fall severe weather season will make up for the boring Summer.
we can hope not
I’m sure the COLD FRONT that will be coming down has something to do with it 🙂
Usually it seems La nina winters have their biggest snows towards the end of the season i.e. March 2008. I wonder if Chris will soon share with us any winter thoughts….
I took my first home loans when I was 25 and that helped my relatives very much. But, I need the student loan also.