Good Sunday everyone. We are coming off a very stormy Saturday across the state that featured more flash flooding for several spots. Today looks to see a few more storms before the heat kicks back in for the first few days of August.
This final day of July will feature temps in the mid and upper 80s for the east with 90 or a degree better out west. We will still see scattered showers and thunderstorms going up… especially across our southern counties. Just like we have seen time and time again… any boomer that forms can put down a lot of rain in a short amount of time leading to local high water.
That is something we will be watching for today and you can too…
The pattern for the first half of the new week is one that looks familiar around here as we see the plains heat dome working into the Ohio Valley. This one does have a different look than the heat waves we have been seeing over the past few months.
This go around with the heat will feature a much sharper cutoff across the north and east as we see some subtle changes taking place with the jet stream. The jet will gradually sink southward this week and eventually squeeze the heat off around here toward later Thursday into Friday. That is when clusters of showers and thunderstorms return. We may see an active MCS period setting up around here or not too far away.
This appears to be the start of a North American pattern realignment for the middle and end of August.
Between now and then… it will get awfully hot once again. Highs Monday through Wednesday should range from 90-95 for many… with western parts of the state possibly hitting the upper 90s.
We always like keeping an eye on the tropics and things continue to look active. Emily is likely to be born today as it heads westward toward the Caribbean…
That should become the first hurricane of the season and may threaten the southeastern coastline late this coming weekend or early the following week.
On a weather related note… longtime forecaster Don Kirkpatrick has retired from the National Weather Service in Louisville. After 31 years of forecasting, all at the Louisville office, I’m sure Don is ready to kick back and enjoy life. We say a big thanks to him for his years of service and wish him nothing but the best in his retirement.
Have a great Sunday and take care.
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Thanks, Chris. Can’t say I am happy about mid 90s, but, we take what we can get. I hope it does get just a bit cooler. At least for a few days.
Wanted to tell everyone that the state Ky Firefighter Olympics were held in Owensboro yesterday, and one of our local volunteer departments won the State Championship.
We went and watched the regionals here in town and this is greatly great training for them. These guys and gals need a big thank you as they do the training and fight the fires, and much more because they love their community and the opportunity to serve.
So, to the Parker’s Mill Volunteer Fire Department, I say Congratulations, and to ALL volunteers, a big THANK YOU!
Thanks Chris, for allowing me to say this.
Congrats to Don! Mary Ann is going to have her hands full now! LOL! :)(btw: Don is married to my hubby’s cousin!)
It appears the iembot_lmk and iembot_iln Twitter accounts are suspended. Anybody (MJ, Chris) have any idea why?
iembot_jkl and iembot_pah are still alive…
I don’t think these are operated or maintained by the NWS proper. I’ll have to ask and see what the deal is.
East Frankfort missed the good rains of yesterday, hoping for some in the next few days, may start to get a little dry if we miss the next chances. NWS says about 20% chances for wed thru Friday???
wow!! never seen one of these issued before:A UK-based long range weather forecaster has issued a severe winter weather warning for 2011-2012. The advisory has been issued following one of the coldest winters experienced in Ireland and Britain more than 45 years
Looks like they are controlled by something called the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, and something similar has happened before, about 2 years ago:
“Back in mid August, many of the twitter accounts IEMBot uses to make noise were suspended due to suspected abuse. Twitter finally got back to me this afternoon noting that the suspension was in error and all of the iembot twitter accounts are working again, whew.”
Wow! Where is this at?