Good Sunday, folks. This has been quite the stretch of chilly temps across the bluegrass state. The well below normal temps have one more day before they finally scoot on out of here. That will set the stage for much warmer air to flood in here for the upcoming week. That warm air may have a fight on its hands to hang around and that could lead to some storms for the holiday weekend.
Temps this morning may be in the frosty mid and upper 30s… again. Sunshine will boost afternoon readings into the middle and upper 60s for most areas. 70 is likely in the west.
Those 70s will take over by Monday with the 80s moving in for Tuesday and Wednesday…
Clouds will increase on Wednesday as a front enters the picture from the north and northwest. This will likely lead to a few rounds of thunderstorms working into the region…
The push of cool air behind that boundary may never clear the bluegrass state and that could spell trouble for our Memorial Day Weekend. With the cool to our northeast and very warm air to our southwest, this could put our region in line for clusters of thunderstorms.
That setup shows up well on the 10 day European Rainfall Forecast…
Enjoy your Sunday and take care.
Seems like we always have one memorable instance during every summer where we get multiple clusters of storms forming on a boundary and riding into the area from the northwest. We have had a lot of flooding problems in the Big sandy region from systems like that.
I used to live in Tampa, Florida and I have noticed that the amount of precipitation per year is just about equal to here. But I wondered why if I thought it rained a lot more over there, and I noticed Kentucky doesn’t have a legitimate dry season while Tampa does. Average rainfall per month from June to September (wet season) is around 7-9 inches and the rest in the other months. Here in Lexington, monthly precip totals per month are more distributed evenly throughout the year. Less rainfall in the fall months, but not by that much. Around 75% of Tampa’s rainfall falls within a few months. I just found this very interesting.
What a glorious weekend it’s been. I’m recharged and ready to tangle with heat again (not humidity). As to rainfall, I grew up in the Appalachians and rain, fog, and clouds seemed to stick to the mountainsides for days on end. Here no system lingers. They are always hustling through the region, and they drop a ton of rain when they are over your area, but often just a few miles separate storms and no storms.
My goodness, what a beautiful day today. Absolutely perfect!
Severe Weather?!? BRING IT!