Hello everyone and welcome to August! For a lot of people… the title of this blog post has a totally different meaning. 
For me, it just means I don’t have a whole lot of time to post. 
We need to continue to look to the northwest later Friday into Friday night for the chance for a complex of showers and storms to develop and roll our way. These can cause some gusty winds so keep that in mind.
The weekend actually looks pretty good. Temps should not be that bad at all with mid and upper 80s. Saturday should see the coolest temps and lower humidity levels.
The heat is on for early next week, though.
I will have a full weekend update coming a little later on today.
Take care.
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Thanks Chris for the update…looking forward for the full update.
AHH !! I’m always looking forward to those late night quickie’s…LOL..LOL… When you got a busy schedule,and a house full of kids thats how it usually pans out…Oh well..lol…ON TO THE WEATHER.. I just heard that Jackson reported above normal rainfall for the month of July (av. is around 4″ and they ended up with alittle over 6″. The wettest above normal month on record at Jackson since SEPT. 06″!!!! now thats impressive. That bodes real well for the drought issues, hopefully we can carry it into the month of Aug. which is usually the a HOT,Miserable month. Well off to do some work, and if my yard dont dry up enough to mow soon I’m gonna have to bushhog it..lol…
HERE’S THE ACTUAL STATS ON JACKSON AND LONDON FOR THE MONTH OF JULY
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=jkl&storyid=17060&source=0
Lots of little cumulus clouds out there this early afternoon, and it looks like 80% of the state is seeing this summertime cloud coverage. Thunderstorms not associated with the aforementioned MCS that may form later this evening into tonight, may actually develop over Kentucky later on this afternoon with the heating of the day.
Dewpoints ranged from 68 degrees to 70 degrees from east to west across the state.
CAPE values are currently ranged from 1,500 to 3,000 from east to west, where the 3000 high values are across extreme western and northwestern Kentucky.
Lifted indexes are at -5 for most of the state right now, which is around average for this type of year, in this airmass, but other pockets rising to -6 have been reported as well.
Current relative humidity shows most of the humid air banked towards the eastern portion of the state, where most of central and eastern Kentucky is in 70% to 90% relative humidity. Obviously, if humidity is over 90% and there is little in the way of cloud coverage, thunderstorm chances are definitely in the forecast. With no major trigger in the vicinity, the storms that do form this afternoon will mainly be localized to the central and eastern portion of the state. Again, this is outside of any potential MCS that may roll through this evening.
Bottom line—isolated to scattered thunderstorms are possible for the central and eastern half of the state as we roll through the rest of the afternoon.