Good Monday, everyone. We’re rolling our way into another stormy week across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Rounds of showers and storms may pack a punch in the upcoming days. The overall setup shows little signs of change in regards to the thunder threat.
Temps out there today will surge into the 80-85 degree range for some under a mix of sun and clouds. The skies can throw some scattered showers and storms at us any time, but we should see a lot of dry hours. We will have to watch western Kentucky for some strong to severe storms from late today into tonight. I’ll have your tracking tools in a bit.
Instability increases on Tuesday and that could give us some strong to locally severe storms. The NAM is forecasting the best instability to stay to our southwest…
That changes on Wednesday with lifted indices really ramping up across the western half of the state…
That could help fuel some strong to severe storms during this time.
A strong cold front is going to move in here on Thursday and could also provide us with some booming showers and thunderstorms…
Much cooler air comes in behind that for Friday with another front arriving Friday night and early Saturday. That may have another round of storms along it…
Next weekend has a rather chilly look to it and could be similar to the temps we had around the middle of last week.
As that chill lifts out by next Monday, that will likely lead us into another stormy setup…
It appears our local “drought” mongers may be foiled again. Not that rain stops them… They were yelling drought in the middle of the wettest summer on record. 😉
I leave you with your Monday storm trackers…
Today’s risk area
Current Watches
Possible Watch Areas
Make it a great Monday and take care.
15° temperature difference between Cincy and Richmond. Impressive.
SPC has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for far western Kentucky including Paducah and Mayfield. Also a Tornado Watch which includes northeastern Arkansas just across the river from western Tennessee. Perhaps a little taste of things to come on Tuesday for much of Kentucky and Tennessee although the SPC feels the tornado threat will wane somewhat by the time this system gets to our area.