Good Saturday and Happy Halloween!! The final day of October is upon us and that means ghosts and goblins will be filling the streets across the region. While they fill the streets, a few showers will fill the sky from west to east later today.
Showers develop into western Kentucky this morning and slowly work eastward this afternoon and evening. The leading edge of the action dissipates some as it works into central Kentucky, but could get into the Lexington area around the time the Breeders’ Cup runs.
The showers this evening look to be more of a nuisance than anything in central and eastern Kentucky. Still, if you’re going out for anything this evening, grab the rain gear to be safe. Winds should also be fairly gusty.
The rains grow more in coverage and intensity later tonight into Sunday morning. I will get to your radars in just a bit.
We may catch a break in the rains for a while on Sunday as skies become partly sunny. That action then picks back up across central and, especially eastern Kentucky Sunday night into Monday. Here’s the NAM…
The Canadian Model is very similar…
Both deliver some healthy rains to the eastern half of Kentucky. Leftover showers continue into Monday before we dry things our for Election Day. That’s when temps head toward the 70s for highs and stay there through Friday.
Moisture starts to return by Thursday and I can see a shower or storm trying to pop by that time. Otherwise, we wait for a stout cold front to work into the region late Friday into Saturday. That one will wipe out the very mild temps and may knock our temps below normal for a few days…
Looking farther down the road, there’s a growing signal for a significant amplification later in week two. The GFS has been showing a big system for a few days now…
The Canadian Ensembles for the same time…
Just something to watch as we roll ahead. Speaking of watching, let’s watch some showers spread eastward today…
I will have another update later today. Have a great Halloween and take care.
Thanks Chris. Maybe we will get the activities in without being soaked this afternoon and evening. Hopefully the Breeders Cup can run in dry conditions. Thank you for still using both radars. The new one has more bells and whistles but for now the old one works for me. Have a spooky Saturday, but a safe one, everyone. Go CATS!! Beat UT!
Thanks CB for the update.
Yesterday was definitely not a “Chamber of Commerce” day in Lexington and the skies were not spectacular until very late in the day.
Neither did we get the high winds forecast for mid-week (thankfully).
Seems fall weather is becoming as tricky to forecast as winter weather around here. ; )
Thursday was the chamber of commerce day referenced and winds in Lexington hit 30mph as forecast. Other areas in my region pushed 40. My forecast area is much bigger than any one persons backyard.
I guess I just can’t read ; ) I took “today’s weather” to reference “Friday” since that’s when you posted.
Good Friday, everyone. We’re rolling our way into a huge weekend on a great weather note. Today’s weather is “Chamber Of Commerce” type stuff with gorgeous skies and crisp temps.
Already raining at 10:45!
Shame about the weather. The best Halloweens were the one’s with a warm wind and storms with cloud-to-cloud lightning without rain coming down.
Halloween City is useless!!! All I’ve wanted is to have a scary costume and go door to door and tell people what the weather currently is outside. For instance, tonight would be very warm and clear with a lunar eclipse. Every year I keep going and asking for the same scary costume and every year I get the same response, “Sir, PLEASE STOP COMING HERE AND YELLING AT US! We don’t have whatever this ‘Voice of Reason’ costume is that you keep asking for!”
My back-up costume is “Weather Channel App”, so maybe I’ll go to the party with that one instead.
Definitely funny:()