Good Friday everyone. We are kicking off our weekend on a very warm and windy note across the bluegrass state. Today’s weather isn’t a sign of things to come over the next few days as we do see some big changes blowing in later tonight. This will set us up for much cooler temps for the next several days.

High temps today will warm well into the mid and upper 70s with an 80 possible for some areas. Skies will be partly sunny with a little more clouds as we head into the afternoon. Stray showers and storms may develop across the region, but the bulk of the action comes in from the west this evening. That’s when a cold front works our way.

A slow-moving line of showers and storms will move eastward across the state tonight into Saturday. The rain will slowly end from west to east during the afternoon hours and some folks could see some decent late day weather… especially in he west. Temps will drop off in a big way with readings in the 40s to start and struggling to get out of the 50s during the afternoon.

Sunday will see us in between systems with some sunshine and temps near 60 for highs.

A few showers may drop in from the northwest Sunday night into Monday as a stronger push of chilly air works in. The new GFS is coming back around to a mega storm just to our east…

Taken verbatim… that’s a heavy, wet snowstorm for parts of the Appalachian Mountains.

Monday should be our coldest day of the bunch with temps in the low and mid 50s for highs. That will go along with a gusty wind.

Temps will slowly recover to normal by Tuesday and Wednesday. That should lead us into a very warm period for the end of next week as a heat ridge builds across the plains states…

We will need to watch for some northwest to southeast moving thunderstorms later in the week into next weekend. Those storms tend to fire up on the cusp of the heat and can often cause rounds of severe weather.

Have a great Friday and take care.