Good Sunday everyone. What a weather weekend we are wrapping up across the bluegrass state. A big blue sky and plenty of sunshine have been with us over the past few days and that trend continues out there today. This is ahead of some scattered showers and storms that move in later tonight. Those boomers will usher in a very warm pattern that has a hint of a summer look to it.
High temps today should hit the low and mid 60s for most of the state. There is the chance for some late day showers and storms across far western Kentucky and this action slides eastward overnight. Check out the NAM Simulated Radar…
The initial action should move through pretty quickly early Monday as warm air pushes it to our east. We will clear the skies out in the afternoon and this may allow for some additional thunderstorms to flare up. We will need to watch for a strong storm or two during this time. High temps will reach the mid and upper 60s in the east and low 70s in the west.
Did someone say 70s? We have a super warm pattern ahead of us this week that will feature daily highs in the low and mid 70s. Upper 70s will be possible on any one day that features enough sunshine. We will even throw a touch of humidity into the mix to give us a March version of summer.
Check out the GFS Ensembles average temperature departure for the next 7 days…
Wow!! That is a serious case of spring fever breaking out for most of North America with many areas seeing temps running more than 20 degrees above normal.
Things aren’t all good as this is also a pattern that will feature a daily threat for some showers or thunderstorms through next weekend. The 7 day rainfall forecast from the GFS shows this well…
Let’s see… warm temps… an increase in humidity and a daily threat for scattered storms. Yep… sounds like summer to me.
Get out and enjoy this awesome weather day and take care.
As long as those storms don’t get severe! Looks good Chris!
Thanks, Chris. Yesterday was a gorgeous day. Really got Spring fever. Sounds like we are going to be treated to a little more of the same today. Hope any storms we get don’t go severe! Like the way the pattern looks, just hope that a lot of new growth don’t wind up getting killed. Have a great Sunday, all, and GO CATS!!!!
I found this link interesting:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=pah&storyid=80411&source=0
The NWS in Paducah has mapped the tracks of the 21 tornadoes that have been confirmed in their CWA thus far in 2012. Only 5 of those occurred on March 2nd. February 29th was much more active in that area.
Really nice March day out there today. Hated to see the Cats loose today :(. The last time Vandy beat Ky in the final game of the SEC tourney was 1951. Ky went on to win the NCAA tourney that year. Could history repeat itself?
Not if they play like they did today.
UK is gonna be fired up going into the tournament. They hated losing, and they know that they’re gonna have to step it up and I know they will.
Wxman,Mitch,or anyone that might know do you think we will see any bad storms this week I’m still very scared…..
Marsha, all of us are a bit nervous. For the short term at least, only an isolated strong storm or two Monday. We still have to be on guard as nature can throw wild cards, but a large severe wx outbreak does not seem in the cards for the next week or so.
Did you see my reply to you a few days ago?
https://kyweathercenter.com/?p=2766#comments
Hope it helps some.