Good Sunday to one and all. Rounds of heavy rain and some thunderstorms are pushing back into the bluegrass after a brief break. This break is being accompanied by crazy high humidity levels and temps. Those warm temps are about to take a walk on the wild side with a HUGE temperature swing coming later today.
Last week I said I’ve never seen so much moisture in the atmosphere around here in December. The NWS in Wilmington, Ohio confirmed my thinking…
Tonight’s weather balloon set a new record for most atmospheric moisture ever sampled in Dec! Hence all the rain. pic.twitter.com/pcoGjs5x6f
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) December 27, 2015
I can’t stress enough just how anomalous the past week of weather has been around here. We aren’t through the with crazy weather just yet. A wild temperature swing and the potential additional high water issues top the headlines…
– Showers and thunderstorms work back in from the west and northwest through the day. With so much moisture in the air… these can put down enough water to cause some high water issues.
– Temps to start the day are absurd. Upper 60s and low 70s could set record highs before we ever hit noon.
– As our boundary slides in from the north… temps will TANK. Drops of 20-30 degrees in 1-2 hours will be likely behind this boundary. Your temperature map later today will look wild.
– A powerful storm works just to our west with rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms working in from west to east Monday into Monday evening. High water issues may develop, again.
– Winds Monday into Monday night will be very gusty and could top 40mph at times.
I’ll get your tracking tools in a bit.
Another system skirts the region on Wednesday with chilly rain that could put down some decent totals in the east. Cold air comes in behind this system as our pattern begins to flip in a hurry.
The GFS continues to show some snow flurries or snow showers for New Year’s Eve and Day…
The GFS high for January 1…
Winter then comes at us in waves into early January before it really settles in for the long haul.
Let’s track today’s wild before we get too far ahead of ourselves…
I will have another update later today. Take care.
I’ll take “wild” KY weather over other’s “wild” weather. From yesterday…
http://i.imgur.com/IJz5enT.jpg
Temps were in the 80s on the warm side of that mess.
If you want temperature contrasts, try 90 degrees in Laredo TX, a record of course, then snow falling at El Paso during the Sun Bowl yesterday.
My wife and little girl will be visiting Mickey’s Country today in Florida where temps in nearby Orlando set a record with 85 yesterday. They’ll be in for a shock when they come home by New Year’s day.
Too much rain. Flooded streets in southwest LouMetro. My backyard is a river.
If moron republicans can claim global warming is BS because of the last 2 winters then we can counterclaim with just this fall and first week of winter.70f last night at 10pm what a crock. But when this is over and the flip happens i guess we go into a drought. This part of the continent sucks. Has sucked since 1980. And if any of you republicans doubt global warming you are complete morons. This year will probably go down as warmest on record, after previous years of record setting. This place sucks.
You have 363 days to practice being nice before next Christmas. Doubt you make it.
What place? If climate change..then I guess the place your referring to is The Earth
Global warming has nothing to do with political affiliation.
77 at noon! Can we get an 80 this afternoon?
At least the SPC in its latest update has downgraded the “Marginal Risk” of severe weather that covered western parts of Kentucky and Tennessee long the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers; just some non-severe t-storms expected now in KY and TN at this time.
But still very worrying about the high water potential with very heavy rain expected.
NWS Louisville did not treat this heavy rain event with much respect as FF Watch products were not issued in a timely manner. Oh yea, issue the watch before the warnings. A lot of lowland flooding taking place in SW Jefferson county where I have received 3.33″ for the week before the surge of steady, heavy rain that has added more than 1.6″ this morning, giving me a total of some 5″ for the week.
Totally agree! I couldn’t believe we didn’t have so much as a floodwatch even as flooding was already occurring here in Warren County.
Ready for cold and snow … so says Rodger in Dodger!
Some sleet mixing with rain western Ky along the Ohio River. 1:pm cst.
Climate comes in cycles, the global warming is hoax .
Ever since the interactive radar has been on this blog I can’t get this website to work properly. Constantly freezes up and crashes.
I must admit SW Jefferson County in Louisville is getting way to much rain seems like Valley Station is taking the brunt. Flood concerns for that area look to becoming a reality if this stubborn rain band persists.