Good Wednesday everyone and welcome to what may become a fairly active severe weather day. A cold front will spark a line of strong and severe storms that will come calling this evening into tonight. We will set you up with the tracking toys for that and have the latest on Hurricane Irene.
A stout cold front will cross the region late tonight into Thursday. A scattering of showers and storms will be possible ahead of the front today. Temps outside of the boomers should really take off. Highs will reach the mid and upper 80s in the east to mid 90s in the far west. Winds should gust up as well.
As the front moves closer this evening… I expect a line of potent thunderstorms to fire up to our northwest and come racing in here. The prime time for severe weather looks to be mid evening into the wee hours of Thursday. This setup has a damaging wind look to it, so please stay up to date on this threat.
Here is what you need to follow along with the strong and severe storm threat…
Today’s Severe Weather Threat
Current Watches
We also want to get you the latest information and tools to track Hurricane Irene. This storm should continue to blow up today and should likely become a major hurricane as it churns through the Bahamas. Here is how this storm looks right now…
The latest forecast and information from the National Hurricane Center…
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That is a dangerous track that could impact tens of millions of people! I will have a ton of cams and tracking tools as this storm gets closer to coming ashore.
From the “strange but true” files… Tuesday’s earthquake was the strongest on the east coast since 1944. Days later a hurricane grazed the outer banks of North Carolina en route to making another landfall on Long Island. How spooky is that?
As far as the storm threat for today goes… I will have updates as needed so check back. You can also give me a follow on twitter… Kentuckyweather or follow along in the twitter feed on the right side of the blog.
Have a great Wednesday and take care.
Wow! That “strange but true” fact is pretty creepy. I wonder if it was also in August as well?
I agree…very strange. I just looked up the info on that earthquake in 1944 and it happened on Sept. 4. Pretty close….
I believe it was Mark Twain who said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme a lot.”
hurricane will make no landfall in united states will skirt coast.
front we have coming thru will keep it off mainland.
Storms to the NW are having are hard time getting going so far, I wonder if this will be another 3 am BOOMER wake-up tonight in Central KY??
Well, it’s entirely possible the eye itself could miss going over the US mainland, and would skirt the coast–but that’s not going to minimize the costal impacts at all–because Irene is still not at her largest predicted size.