Good Sunday everyone. Not that the blog has ever been accused of being “normal”, but we are getting things back in that direction now that Hurricane Irene is winding down. We are also getting closer and closer to the busy season around here and we will begin to focus more and more on the fall and winter aspect of the weather world… starting with this update. 
-The rest of today continues to look awesome with partly to mostly sunny skies. Highs in the upper 70s to low 80s for the east with mid 80s in the west.
– A nice breeze is blowing out there and this will carry over into Monday. Temps Monday will be a degree or two cooler than today as we should have a much lower starting point. Wake up temps Monday morning will be in the mid 50s for much of the area.
– It is Tuesday morning that temps can hit their coolest mark of the summer. Readings from 50-55 look to be common with some of the cooler valleys possibly dipping into the upper 40s.
– The heat will continue to bubble up across the plains states and will make a run at us for the second half of the week into the upcoming Labor Day Weekend. This will give many a shot at 90 again with western Ky. surging back into the low 90s for a few days.
– We will find ourselves on the cusp of the plains heat meaning a few scattered showers and thunderstorms will likely fire up late this week into the weekend.
– A cold front will dip in here late Sunday into Labor Day Monday and should crank out some decent showers and thunderstorms. Here is a snapshot from the GFS for Monday afternoon…
– That front may be able to tap some moisture streaming northward from the Gulf of Mexico and will also deliver a nice shot of cooler air behind it.
– Speaking of cooler… I have been talking about cold cool and cold air building up in Canada in recent weeks and that trend continues. Look at the blue showing up across our neighbor to the north on Labor Day…
If you are playing along at home… that blue is snow. Looking farther down the road, the GFS actually tries to put down some snow fairly far south in Canada during the first two weeks of September…
If you are a fan of winter weather around here… you have to like seeing flakes flying so early in the fall season across Canada.
Are you happy to have the blog back to ummm “normal”? 
Have a great rest of your Sunday and take care.
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As far as Irene and the medoa, I think this article (from England, of all places) sums what I was saying yesterday.
Key point is a CNN reported over exaggerating the weather event, while people were playing in the background and riding bikes- behind him. Sad event for the media and a telling example of various agendas.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100102355/perfect-storm-of-hype-politicians-the-media-and-the-hurricane-irene-apocalypse-that-never-was/
Media, not medoa.
I will only post this one, but there are many more examples of reporters trying to support the hype they built up. Funny and sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS2zkguTs3g&feature=youtu.be
The reality is that this was forecast to be a Cat 3 hurricane which could have had terrible consequences. Besides, any hurricane making land fall in the U.S. post Katrina is going to get the same type of coverage. No agenda there.
Political points aside, the most important point the article makes is
“The resultant perfect storm of hype over Irene runs the risk of making Americans even more like to ignore warnings in the future.”
Psychology tells us that if you turn everything into a crisis, people will start to ignore you.
Preparation is always good, but marketing and reporting a bunch of BS after it is obviously not Cat 3, 2 or 1, supports an agenda. May it be an issue of pride after pumping the event up, or supporting a more broad agenda (whatever it may be).
Sad thing is if a Cat 2 or 3 does hit, far less people will listen to them.
Point is the media is pushing a disaster event, AFTER it is obvious it is not. The New York reporting is pure comic gold’ along with the mayor and Governor touting tens of billions in damage.
Sad thing is if a Cat 2 or 3 does hit, far less people will listen to them.
What a beautiful day. Just love these warm, low humidity afternoons like this..
Drought conditions in parts of Casey and Pulaski counties. I would like to see a rainfall map for the last couple of months for the state. We desperately need rain here!
good evening from the town of wayne, wva. at just before the 6pm hour the temp is in the upper 70s with a bright sunny sky and very low dew points. i just wanted to say a big thanks to chris bailey for all the neat little tracking toys for hurricane irene. i also want to bring up a couple of points about the hype with the hurricane. point 1…..i do not believe you can over hype any storm that is capable of causing millions of dollars in damage and even if it only takes 1 life, that is 1 life too many. 2nd point………..most if not all forecasters were only going by what most of the models were printing out, intensity wise and also track wise, i mean, heck, if we would have went with the models when the storm 1st developed, most of them had this hurricane going into the eastern gulf of mexico but some of the forecasters did not bite on that and good for them. 3rd and final point……..joe bastardi is 1 forecaster that is known for over hyping any thing but 1 thing he did point out about this storm that made it so historic is this……how many storms or hurricanes do we ever see take the route that this one took….the i-95 route with massive power outages along the way, with some people possibly being without power for a week at a time. thank you for allowing me the time to put my 2 cents worth in if it is indeed worth that much. god bless.
I think it’s normal for this area to get drought (ish) conditions this time of year (late summer, early fall)…But it’s typically relatively short lived.
Sunday, August 28, 2011 6:44 PM MarkLex wrote:
I think it’s normal for this area to get drought (ish) conditions this time of year (late summer, early fall)…But it’s typically relatively short lived.
This is not typical weather since it started two months ago. I would guess total rain during that period has maybe been 1&1/2 to maybe 2 inches if that. You could drop a match right now and it would burn here. Grass has gone brown/format. These are not typical conditions.
Hype. Some perspective. First, if you’ve never been through the eyewall of a major hurricane, much less any hurricane, you don’t have a clue. I have, repeatedly, and I’m not a chaser. Just a matter of where I used to live, and where I have happened to be. I’ve been assured that Elena was not coming for me in MS in 1985. It did, with six hours warning, and an increase from cat 2 to a strong cat 3. The eye passed over me and it was terrifying. I also waited for Florence in 1989, predicted to be a cat 2, and was hardly a bad thunderstorm. Had several strong tropical storms when I lived on MS coast, and two of those were almost as bad as Elena was. Was on St. Thomas in the VI in 1995 when Marilyn came in. Another eye wall. Cat 2, but staying high up the hill over Charlotte Amalie harbor. My room was rendered roofless, and there were bodies in the surf the next morning.
Bottom line. You never know what these storms will do. They all deserve all of the attention they get, sometimes more.
And if you want to accuse anyone about agendas, then why was Faux News on 24/7 with coverage over the weekend.
Someone posted a drought map last week(Maybe Belski in Louisville) that had the western 2/3 of KY in either mild or moderate drought. I noticed driving to Louisville yesterday the further west I went, the browner the grass looked.
In KY, September and October are normally the driest months of the year. Precipitation picks back up markedly in November/December.
Here is the latest drought monitor map for Kentucky. Portions of the state are now in a moderate drought…especially the south-central parts.
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DM_state.htm?KY
Between you and my mother-in-law, you both are like hurricane magnets.
She was in Puerto Rico when hurricane Georges struck and my family was with her when Charley slammed into Florida, the closed center literally going over our head just outside Kissimmee when winds gusted to 100mph.
I stayed outside during the storm in a relatively open area. No large trees nearby and we had underground utilities. Just got pelted with some shingles and paper. However once the screened-in porches broke free a few doors down and was flying through the air like a missile, it was time to head back inside.
We only lost a few shingles and minor structural damage to the garage, but neighbors on both sides of us suffered extensive damage.
Hype? No time. The hurricane went from a ho-hum weak Cat 2 to a major Cat 4 within 3 hours.
Yes, I’m a hurricane magnet. I won’t even get into my close brushes (and familial impacts) with Katrina, Ivan, and Hugo. Suffice to say that when you do marine insurance, you can find yourself in harms way.
The most scary ting about hurricanes, any hurricane, aside from the surge, is what they do the tops of pine trees. Just snap the tops off, and the tops become missiles. I was nearly impaled by one of these as the back side of the eye wall closed in during Elena.
The thing with Marilyn was just frightening. 120 sustained for about 12 hours. At Blackbeard’s Castle on St. Thomas. Roof blows off, guns firing, no info, no guidance, just praying for the sun to come up. Had to walk to the airport the next day, and there were bodies on the beach, sailboats with dead people tied up in the rigging.
I get tired of these people who think they know everything.
Chris, and anyone else who posts here, you may be interested in this link http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/27/do-really-need-national-weather-service/?cmpid=cmty_fb_Gigya_Do_We_Really_Need_a_National_Weather_Service%3F
i know i dont always agree with nws, but we DO need them. without nws, the apr 27th tornado outbreak could of had a lot more deaths without their warnings
i do not claim to know every thing. i was just pointing some things out and giving my own opinion for what it is worth. sounds like you r the 1 who thinks he or she knows it all. do me a favor and go back to bed and wake back up you WHINEY LITTLE CRY BABy!!!!!!!!!!!