Good afternoon, everyone. The axis of heavy rain will shift eastward later today into tonight. This means an increased threat for high water issues across western and central parts of the state.
The NAM rainfall totals tonight are a bit alarming…
That’s a lot of water falling in a short amount of time. It’s also falling on saturated ground across the western half of the state.
The WeatherBELLÂ HRRR model goes through 1am Friday…
That shows 3″-4″ totals for some areas through 1am. I would hope Flash Flood Watches would be expanded very soon to give people a heads up on the possibilities. That’s out of my control.
After a break in the rain on Friday, additional rounds of showers and storms return over the weekend. Here’s the NAM rain forecast through Sunday afternoon…
I will have the latest on WKYT-TV starting at 4, with another blog update coming your way this evening.
Your tracking toys to keep you company…
Make it a great day and take care.
Why do all these storms act the same as far as this:
Look at the national radar and notice that the more north you go, the more east the rain goes, and the more south you go, the rain has a harder time progressing east? It seems like it’s almost always like this.
It has to do with the circulation around the high pressure ridge…think of clocks how they are shaped…most are shaped circular and high pressure systems have the winds that force the weather systems from SW to NE around the ridge.
This is why where I am in Harlan Co., we may not get much rain at all, even through the weekend. You may have some flooding issues while I have a dry, dusty ground here. I only have .42 inches of rain so far this month, so this is the first dry stretch I have experienced this year. If this pattern continues a lot later this Spring, I may be down for the year on rainfall while the rest of the state has a surplus like happened last year before July came in very wet state wide.
the storm is cut off from the jet. The flow coming out of the gulf is south to north, and the further north you go, the more east to west the flow gets, so it’s pushing the northern part further east. The southern part is training from south to north, so the same places down there just getting hammered. Spring time is notorious for these big cut off lows
sorry… meant the further north you go, the more west to east the flow gets