Good Friday everyone! Ok… raise your hand if you have had enough of this wet and wild weather pattern of the past few months!! This has been one heck of a soggy period and it looks like it wants to continue for a while longer.
The blog has been all over this pattern for a while now so if you are a regular reader… this pattern should not come as a surprise to you. Rounds of thunderstorms have been very common this week and Thursday featured no less than 3 clusters rolling across the state. These caused quite a bit of severe weather… especially across the southern sections of the state. They did manage to put down a ton of rain yet again. Severe flash flooding hit parts of Pike County yet again. Some of the same areas that were hit hard by the early May floods saw more flooding Thursday.
Take a look at a couple of radar estimated rainfall maps from Thursday…
Those maps are ugly considering what a wet spring we had!
The weather today won’t feature the intense thunderstorms we have seen in recent days. However… scattered showers and storms will develop during the day with parts of southeastern Kentucky having the best shot at seeing those. You can track them right here…
Saturday will feature partly cloudy skies and some isolated to scattered storms. We will see many dry hours through Saturday… especially the farther north you live.
It is once into later Sunday that the pattern becomes very active with clusters of thunderstorms developing to our northwest. Those will ride the flow into our region and this is a setup for clusters of storms that are known as MCS’s. The GFS continues to show these clusters riding in one after another…
Sunday Night
Tuesday Afternoon
Wednesday Morning
If the pattern is setting up like I think it is… severe thunderstorms and flooding rains will be coming back later this weekend into next week!
I will have more on all that with updates over the weekend so make sure you check back. Have a great Friday and take care.
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UGH!!…I’m tired of the rain and storms!!
I feel for all those affected yesterday in Pike co. I saw alot of video and pics from the last episode and alot of folks lost everything they had!!..I cannot even begin to imagine that happening AGAIN..but again this soon!!
Our weather patterns seem to go from one extreme to the other…its either feast or famine, drought or flood…before folks didnt have enough water for livestock,gardens,farming,etc..now farmers cant get into the feilds to seed them, cut the hay, and garden vegetables are rotting in the ground….
its enough to make your head spin..
oh yeah, my rainfall total from wed. at noon until this morning at 8am.. was 4.75″!!
thanks tim
Wow. That’s a lot of rain, Tim.
It’s raining hard at the moment here in downtown Winchester. Getting pretty squishy here, but nothing like the folks south and east of here are having to deal with. Bless ’em all!
We are sitting here in Preston getting soaked!! We are trying to have a summer court days but the weather is definitely not cooperating!!!
I’ve had enough. Our driveway washed out for the second time, $215. worth of gravel, gone. We can’t do a thing. The horse is in a pasture of mud. I’ve had enough. When,oh when will the rain stop?
I’m raising my hand!! I’ve had enough of the rain and thunderstorms already!! Looks to be no end to this madness
I do wish for slightly drier weather…HOWEVER…2007 taught us all that drought is HORRIBLE too. So let’s be careful what we ask for.
I’m with you WXman. I’ll not say a word against this rain. 2007 I was feeding hay in July and scrambling to find hay for the winter. Let it rain!
I hope to actually enjoy my pool this year! Last year was terrible!! I am just throwing money away!
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I fall into the camp that prefers too wet over too dry. It’s unfortunate that some have been flooded out though.
I hope we dry out, the soil can’t handle much moisture in it. I’ll see you all in a week, I’m off to Hopefully Sunny SC.
Shane, seeing as how much “fire damage” has gone on in the Myrtle Beach area of South Carolina, it’s kind of hard to see how you can take a trip down there without enduring some type of weather jargon being tossed around.
“We need rain to put out the fires,” or “it’s been so dry we’ve caught on fire down here!” Really? Well how about a good old-fashioned tropical storm to indundate the areas…then next, folks will be complaining about the flooding……
Overall, in Kentucky, we’ve had a slightly more active severe weather season and slightly wetter pattern for the summer. I think we’re better off this way, rather than being too dry. But this is simply my opinion on the whole issue…perhaps your thoughts differ. Input is appreciated.
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