Good Monday everyone and welcome to a new week. This week is getting started off in one heck of a nice way as today might end up being the nicest day we have for a long time. Showers and storms will return over the next few days and those may cause some problems before the heat and humidity return later in the week.
Today will see partly sunny skies and temps that should stay in the 70s across much of the region. Those 70s will combine with lower humidity levels to make for a September feel to the air. Football anyone? 
The heat will be returning to the lower plains states on Tuesday. This air will surge to the northeast and meet up with a system working into the Ohio Valley from the west. Moisture will be surging northward toward this low pressure. Clusters of severe storms will then form Tuesday across the miwest and dive to the southeast toward our part of the world by later in the afternoon and evening. A “zone” of rounds of thunderstorms will set up from northwest to southeast across the Ohio Valley from Tuesday into Wednesday. Areas within this zone will likely experience severe storms and possible flooding rains.
Here is the GFS for this event…
Tuesday Evening
Tuesday Night
Wednesday Evening
As you can see… the “zone” on the GFS runs from central Illinios into northern and eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio and into West Virginia. That is clearly shown when we look at the GFS forecast rainfall for Tuesday into Wednesday…
It will be interesting to see exactly where this corridor of severe storms and flooding rains sets up. The GFS has been very consistent with it’s depiction in recent days.
I mentioned heat and humidity coming back by the end of the week and that is certainly in the cards. By “hot”… I am talking about temps pushing 90 degrees. Just like with the recent bout of “hot” weather last week… this will be remembered more for the humidity levels than the temps. Scattered thunderstorms should also fire back up in the afternoon and evening hours. I read a forecast discussion this weekend that used the term “hot and dry”. I don’t think this is the summer to use those two words together in the same sentence.
Have a great Monday and enjoy the awesome weather. Take care.
Thanks Chris. Today and tomorrow (for the most part) soundlike very nice days indeed, at least for parts of the Commonwealth.
After thr front passed yesterday, the afternoon was absolutely wonderful! the boat races were ablr to go on, and everyone seemed to enjoy them.
Gotta enjoy today, even if it IS “Tuesday Eve.” 😉 Have a good one, all.
Too bad this awesome weather falls on a Monday. Anyway the time has come for some rain to fall around where I live…the Mesonet site has recorded 0.14″ of rain since May 21st. But we don’t need flooding rains like what the GFS is suggesting. 🙁
Well, This is day 24 f the drought for my side of Woodford County, we have only received slighty over 0.30″ of ran since May 14th, The grass has already gone dormant in many yards, Im running up a hundred dollar water bill I know trying to keep mine looking semi descent, but if we dont see at least an inch of rain by the weekend, my watering will stop too, We are beginning to have several grass fires in the area, and if this is how this summer is going to go, then give me october, and cold weather again, at least everything would be asleep and not dead. PLEASE RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
May was exciting. June has been BORING. I hate the boring weather, although today is a beautiful day outside.
As far as humidity, we haven’t even gotten our dewpoints out of the 60s yet! Just wait until those 75 degree dewpoints and 95 degree air temps. hit…THEN you will wish for the humidity we have been seeing!
I was thinking the same last week. It didn’t really feel all that humid to me.
I agree! Yawn boring weather.
75 degree dew point??……UGH Yuck
We rarely have a 75 dew point in Eastern Ky.. Must be the hills, but still, I HATE 70+ dew points, that’s when it is almost hard to breath the air is so thick.. awful awful feeling.