Good Wednesday to one and all. The weather we have going out there continues to be one heck of a cool and showery pattern. This setup is giving us some of the coolest high temps on record for so early in September to go along with the on and off showers.
Lexington and Bowling Green both recorded their coolest high temps ever for so early in September. Tuesday’s highs barely cracked 60 in both cities! Think about that for a second. The coolest highs ever recorded so early in meteorological fall and those numbers coming just a few days after temps hit the upper 90s in Lexington and 100 in Bowling Green. WOW!
The cooler than normal temps will continue out there today and for the next several days as what is left of Lee sits and spins over us for a while. Highs in some areas are going to struggle to reach the low 60s in some areas again. This cutoff low pressure will bring us on and off rounds of showers and some isolated storms to go along with the cool air.
If you want to see a textbook view of a closed upper low… look at the NAM forecast…
Our afternoon and evenings will see the highest chance for these showers and rumbles of thunder. This chance looks to continue right on into the upcoming weekend as our temps slowly moderate.
The tropics are in full bloom with several systems on the map…
Katia will be a miss along the east coast leaving us to watch the system in the gulf and the one behind Katia in the Atlantic. We will see how these two influence the overall pattern into next week.
In the short term… let’s track the damp and cool weather…
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Have a great Wednesday and take care.
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It’s almost 7:00 a.m. & no one has commented yet? What’s wrong with this picture?
Anyway, I got my issue of the Farmer’s Almanac a few days ago & they are saying that it looks to be a very wet & very cold winter.
Good, cause wet + cold means….. SNOW!
Woohoo! Can’t wait to see all the snow lovers on here again! 🙂
Always love those things! Wonder what last years said?
Have people forgotten Labor Day weekend from just 5 years ago already? We were in the 50s much of the day…topped out in the low 60s. It was very cool then too. We’ve seen this before…ruined a lot of plans for the weekend.
Yes
This pattern we’re in is a bit dismal, but I’ll take it over temps in the 90’s.
Not even close. 2006 saw Bowling Green and Louisville with only one day with upper 60s for highs. No record Low highs were set anywhere. We are talking about the coolest temps EVER recorded for highs this early in September! These are upper 50s and low 60s for highs right now and not just for a day… but today will make 3 in a row with some areas likely hitting 4 in a row tomorrow.
We simply have not seen this cool of a period this early in the fall season in a LONG time, if ever.
good morning from the town of wayne, wva. at 10:35am the sky is cloudy with few spits of drizzle from time to time. the temp is doing alittle better today than previous days but not by much. at least by 11am we have almost hit 65 with the temp being at 64 right now. no additional rain fell last night so the total this week stand at 2.50 inches. thanks for your time and may god bless you and your family.
I was just asking people yesterday if they didn’t remember that Labor Day! I enjoyed it like I enjoyed this one.
Jake
We need the rain, but…….it is a bit tiresome to me already. I need to see some sunshine!
Louisville? Where’s that? 😉 Well, I wouldn’t say “not even close”. That weekend in 2006 saw a daily average of 62…only 4 degrees different from yesterday here. My point was only that we have seen VERY cool weather in early Sept. before. And if you want to talk cool…we’ve seen upper 50s for highs as early as late August in LEX before per official records. 😉 Now that is crazy right there! We all agree that we needed this tropical system though…
Despite a few high water instances, this rainfall was a good soaker for many in eastern KY. Glad to see some could use it.
‘Maria’ looks like a potential threat later along the east coast…again.
Can’t figure out the tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico. NHC says likely chance for this becoming a named storm soon.
GFS has Maria curving well east of U.S. and does not develop this tropical disturbance in the Gulf very well.
GEM, I think, has a better handle on the disturbance in the Gulf, bringing it as a tropical storm near Mobile AL in a few days, Then a familiar trek up through Kentucky with heavy rains for the state. Maria may stay out to sea if this tropical disturbance comes to fruition.
really starting to need some sunshine. I still dont understand the whole drought index issue with a severe drought in parts of ky with the wettest spring on record and a above normal summer how can some areas be anywhere near below normal?
here is something of you may enjoy on this rainy day http://www.kentucky.com/2011/02/16/1637275/change-in-the-weather.html
good afternoon from the town of wayne, wva. at 3:55pm the rain has started to fall again after it quit for almost 24 hours. the temp did make it to 68 degrees and it now stands at 66 degrees. not much wind to speak of today so a little better day today until the rain began to fall again. we wait to see what the rest of the day today holds and into the day on thursday. thanks for your time and may god bless you and your family.
Yes, this is the earliest “cool” period we’ve seen in a long time. However, it is not indicative of things to come. Simply put, we’re in an anomalous pattern at the moment. Wild weather patterns occur when you have significant anomalies present. A cut off low in the Ohio Valley in early September is an anomaly for sure.
Forget the GFS at the moment with respect to Maria. The thing to watch with Maria is to see where she is at with respect to Peutro Rico in 96 hours. The pattern over the Atlantic has not really changed all that much since Irene. If Maria passes very close to PR, then a close path to the east coast is a good bet. Katia passed well north of PR and she went out to see. Also, you can’t forget Nate in the Gulf. That storm will also have an effect on the eventual track of Maria too. 12Z Euro has Maria coming very close to the east coast…somewhat like Irene’s track.
Last years, from what I can remember, was pretty accurate. Some of their precipitation actually came earlier than what they predicted but other than that, it wasn’t too far off.
If there’s one thing this crazy weather of late has taught us, it’s that there is NO knowing “what is to come.” Maybe it’s just me – but it sure does seem like the weather is tending more toward the extreme in the past few years. So this winter could be epic cold & snow – or it may end up like 1982 when it was 70 degrees on Christmas day.
Tommy, you have to remember that most of that rain ended up in the Mississippi since the soil can only hold a certain amount of water. With evaporation and transevaporation in full swing during the summer, that water won’t last long with out being replenished. After that wet spring, the rain turned off. So while the region was above normal for the year, it was way below normal for the past 90, and even 120 days. The area’s agriculture was really taking a hit and even the streams and rivers were starting to get very low. I definitely understand how it is hard to grasp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEnq-eJU8Zw&feature=share
just wanted to share