Good Wednesday everyone and welcome to another day of summer temps. We have another shot at setting new record highs across the state today. Tuesday brought another round of records with some cities topping numbers from 118 years ago. Wow! Changes are ahead and this means an extended period of rainy and cooler weather.
The short-term features temps back into the low 80s today and this will put us near record levels yet again. We will see a touch more moisture in place and this should allow us to fire up a scattered shower or thunderstorm.
The threat for showers and thunderstorms will begin to increase later Thursday as a super slow storm system moves our way.The upper level low will meander its way across our part of the world through the weekend and will bring an increase in showers and storms and some cooler air. Here’s how the upper low looks on the GFS…
Some locally heavy rains will be possible during this time. The GFS suggests more than an inch of rain will be possible for many areas through this time…
High temps from Friday through Sunday will likely stay in the 60s. Don’t sweat it… it looks like the 70s return early next week as we continue to blaze toward a top 5 warmest March on record.
Have a great Wednesday and take care.
see a DRY SUMMER setting up, last year wasnt no drought talk,but come july thru august u hear we NEED RAIN thias year.
tx CB.
Do we get big snows in APRIL? the answer is yes…
a clip from the washington post April 7,1987
Joe Brown Heldreth, who is 92, can recall bigger snowstorms. The ones in 1929 and 1947 come to mind, he said. But none came as late in the spring as the 30-incher that engulfed his home town, Tazewell, and other communities in far Southwest Virginia during the weekend.
yep I remember that storm very,very well…..30″ in East ky, and Tn…hard to believe with this weather we are having…
and here is a website of some historic april east coast storms…http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?/topic/131872-past-significanthistoric-april-storms/
The April 1987 snow even buried Alabama, including Birmingham:
http://www.talkweather.com/forums/index.php?/topic/15617-the-dogwood-snowstorm/
I was only about three years old at the time, in east Tennessee. But seems I much later heard of a heavy wet late snow around this time period that broke many tree branches as the leaves/buds were out.
We named it the “dogwood snowstorm” for obvious reasons. The snow melted quickly later on April 3, but it was a sight to remember forever.
That large slow-moving low-pressure area moved on to the NE from April 3 through April 5 and produced some unbelievable snow totals. In the Great Smoky Mountain Park, 60 inches accumulated on Newfound Gap. That is the largest single storm snowfall in North Carolina history–at least up until that time. As much as 36 inches was recorded in SE Kentucky. In Charleston, West Virginia, 25 inches easily broke the previous record for the entire month of April which was only 6 inches. Akron, Ohio got 21 inches–an all-time record. I-40 was closed by the snow for the first time since it had opened to traffic 20 years earlier.
Do you remember?
I remember I was a freshman in high school and in Lexington for some reason on a Saturday and it was snowing but not enough to impact traffic. I had no idea it was snowing nearly that much in the mountains.
Anything cooler now than high’s in the 60’s will feel cold at this point, as I now have full blown spring fever. Bring on the snow in December?
Look like we got a popup storm. There’s one approaching Lexington, moving N/NW.