Good Monday morning everyone! Here is hoping each of you had one heck of a weekend. I know it was a good one as far as the weather was concerned as we had a nice little taste of September. The weather of late has been making the famed “dog days of summer” look more like this…



There are soooo many things wrong with that picture. But, you get the idea of what I am talking about… this August has been rather wimpy so far and that looks to continue this week.

We are starting off this new week with another well below normal day. Temps this morning should be flirting with record lows across parts of the area. Lexington’s record low is 54 set back in 1967. We will likely be within striking distance of that. I hope it bites the dust, myself! Low and mid 50s everywhere to start out our Monday. Can I get an upper 40? I will definatly be on the lookout for one since I have been all over this cool snap for a while now.

Highs later on Today will top out in the upper 70s in the north and east to a low 80 in the south and west. Sunny skies will rule.

Clouds will be on the increase later Tuesday as highs temps hit the low 80s after another start in the 50s.

The clouds increasing will be in response to a storm system coming out of the deep south. This will take a track to our south and east giving us only a glancing blow at rain chances with the best chance in the east and south. Take a look…

NAM Wednesday Morning


NAM Wednesday Evening


That track means temps Wednesday could have a hard time cracking 80 in some areas due to a northeast wind and some clouds and showers.

Here is a look at the upper air charts for later this week…



That does not look very much like August!!! The setup above argues for a monster closed low pressure system across the Mississippi River Valley late week into the weekend. It is one that will bring an increase in humidity levels and ran and thunderstorm chances to the state during this time. Temps will rebound into the low and mid 80s… but that all depends on clouds and rain.

Heat lovers are hating this summer. Oh well… better luck year!!!

The tropics are going to crank over the next two weeks and this is something the blog has been on since we issued the August forecast back in late July.

I am going to be doing some work on the blog over the next few weeks as well to get it ready for the prime time fall and winter months ahead of us. Hard to believe we will soon be talking about winter. Say what? Oh… well… we have talked about it a lot this summer so never mind! haha

BTW… if anyone is having some problems with the blog please email me at chrisbaileyweather@yahoo.com.

Have a great Monday and I will update you again later in the day. Take care.