Good Tuesday morning to one and all. Let me start off by once again saying thanks for all the wonderful comments and for all those who have followed me over to the new blog. Our little weather community carries on!

Our Monday featured a few rounds of showers and storms that were mainly concentrated across the west and south. Some areas picked up very heavy rainfall to go along with some strong storms. It looks like Monday was the opening act to a stormy next couple of days.

Tuesday will feature another very humid day in the commonwealth. Highs will reach the middle 80s in many areas and showers and thunderstorms will once again go up. It looks like we will be seeing a greater coverage of the rains than we had Monday. Heavy rains will be a concern once again as the atmosphere is loaded with moisture right now. Some of the boomers could also go severe for a time so we will have to be on watch for that possibility.

Wednesday looks to be the day for the area to get a good soaking. Numerous showers and storms will be rolling across the state as a cold front dips into the area and checks up. A little wave of low pressure will try to form along the front and move right over us enhancing the rain potential. It’s a setup that can produce some very heavy rain totals and the models are all over this possibility.

GFS Rainfall Tue/Wed


As you can see… the potential for some very heavy rainfall will be with us here in Kentucky through Wednesday Night. We will have to keep an eye out on the flash flood potential during this time.

Thursday will see improving conditions as sunshine returns to the area with temps that will be in low and middle 80s for highs as humidity levels come down.

The heat ridge that continues to be in the western part of the country will try once again to reach our neck of the woods. That attempt looks rather weak to me… but temps will be fairly normal for this time of year with mid and upper 80s for the weekend. We will also have to keep an eye on some thunderstorm clusters forming to our northwest and rolling southeastward toward the state.

Another front looks to also make a run at us by late weekend or early next week.

Eventually the heat has to get in here for a little bit… right? I guess we will see… but I have a sneaking suspicion it will before this month is over.

This is Bertha…



Hurricane Bertha is a powerful Cat 3 storm with winds of 120mph. This is very rare to have a major hurricane so early in the season and usually portends an active season ahead. It looks like the storm will begin to move more northward in the coming days and may take aim on Bermuda. We will keep watch on this storm and have daily updates.

In addition to the daily weather update blog posts. I hope to get you guys some cool posts about some weather history and some long range outlooks. The long range stuff being a look at the months ahead with MAYBE a little peak toward the fall and winter months. That is of course if you ask nicely!

Updates will be coming as needed on Tuesday so make sure you check back. I also hope to add some new features to the blog as soon as I get a 3rd grader to show me how to write some html code!

Take care.