Good Sunday to one and all. Ugly is the weather word of the weekend with a lot of clouds and rainy weather around. Unfortunately, we have more of the same coming our way over the next several days. As a matter of fact, the heaviest rains may be yet to come for central and eastern Kentucky.
Showers continue out there today, but some dry hours look to sneak into the northern half of the state. Temps in these areas stay in the 40s as the front pushes into southern Kentucky and puts the brakes on. This boundary then surges northward with an increase in temps, winds and moisture for Monday and Tuesday.
As a matter of fact, thunderstorms will be possible on the first day of December. Watch how quickly the action blows up late Monday through Tuesday…
Rainfall totals from today through Tuesday are high across central and eastern Kentucky…
That’s showing better than 3″ of new rain across southern and southeastern Kentucky. High water issues would be possible with those numbers… Especially Monday night and Tuesday.
This whole mess is courtesy of a monster of a cutoff low that works out of the Rockies and into the high plains with a monster snowstorm. That upper low then hits the Ohio Valley by Wednesday…
As that swings across the region on Wednesday, temps come way down with the potential for some rain and snow showers…
That moves away as temps recover by the end of the week. We will have to watch another system diving in here about a week from now. I’ll try to touch more on that and signs of a wintry pattern by the middle of the month in a late day update.
For now, let’s track more rain…
Enjoy your day and take care.
Lexington received only a half inch of rain yesterday. Looks like very little will fall today. Thankfully, we are well above normal for the year!
We only had 0.2 in Knox County as of 7am
We are barely even for the year in Harlan Co., but the year is not over yet…
Also interesting to note, this will be one of the ten warmest November’s on record for this area. If you have time Chris, how did the winter temps rank, following a record warm November. The November’s I found that are as warm as this one are: 1931, 1985, 1909, 1902, 2001, 1994, 1999, and 1987.
Mercer, I always appreciate you bringing the met data info and analysis here to complement the blog. Sometimes when things don’t go as expected around here, the follow-up seems to get lost in the woods. If you ever think of starting one of your own, please let us know!
Always great to see your stats, Mr. Mercer. I didn’t realize it had been all that warm this November. How did those winters do snow wise? Thanks for your expertise.
I sure hope we do get the 3 inches plus in the SE part of the state as pursuant to forecast; we actually need it after a dry November (down over 1 1/2 inches at the house right now) and last 2 weeks of October went without measurable precip!
This is one time I think the ground can handle 3 inches of rain. We have been bone dry here in southeast Ky..
We got about an inch here in greenup…looks like more heavy rain on the way