Good Thursday everyone and welcome to the chill of an early fall. That is an old George Strait song and the title certainly applies to the weather we have out there today. Temps will spend the next few days well below normal with the threat for readings to approach record levels the next few mornings. Brrr!

I know most who visit the blog are fans of fall and winter and we have a touch of both within this post. The current weather has the fall aspect covered and I will touch on the winter part of it with some snow cover maps.

A few thoughts about where our local weather is going…

– Rain will slowly exit eastern Kentucky today as the chilly air rushes in from the west. Some leftover drizzle will linger across the southeast well into the afternoon. Central and western Ky will see the clouds break.

– Temps will spend the day in the low 60s for many. Parts of eastern Ky may have a tough time getting out of the 50s if clouds linger. Winds will be rather gusty giving us a blustery feel.

– Tonight’s lows are going to crash! Readings will head into the low and mid 40s and will flirt with record lows in some cases. The coldest valleys have an outside shot at some upper 30s. All this is dependent on clear skies.

– Friday will start off clear with some clouds going up into the afternoon hours. It will be another very cool day with highs in the low to mid 60s.

– We will start out the weekend on a chilly note with temps Saturday morning down into the low and mid 40s again. A milder wind will blow during the day with partly sunny skies. Temps will warm back into the low to mid 70s for highs giving us a great fall day.

– The weather for kickoff between the Cats and cards out at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington looks good. Readings will be in the upper 60s.

– Moisture will begin to return for Sunday and this may lead to a scattered shower or thunderstorm. Better chances for showers and storms will then move in for Monday and Tuesday.

I wanted to talk briefly about snow cover across North America. This is one of the things I follow as the fall progresses as I love seeing a nice snowpack setting up to our north. This is usually an indicator to how the following winter MAY play out as the more snow you have the better the chance at getting colder air moving south into the states.

The September snow cover doesn’t mean a whole heck of a lot, but it is still nice to see the stats inching into the above normal range…



You can see it spent much of the summer below normal with that blue blip of above normal coming over the past few days. This looks to spike over the next few weeks.

Now to today’s weather tracking tools…

Currents



Winds





Have a great Thursday and take care.