Good Sunday, everyone. High winds are coming at us today as a potent little system crosses the Ohio Valley. The system will be a much bigger deal as it moves in here for Halloween and the first day or two of November. That one will bring heavy rain, thunderstorms and high winds with cold air to follow.

Let’s start with today’s system. Low pressure is zipping across the Ohio Valley, bringing high winds and a few showers and storms. The winds are the main factor and may gusty from 40-50mph at times. This would be enough to cause some power hits and could cause some tree damage. There is also a local strong to severe storms threat across the north and east…

Here’s regional radar to track the gusty showers and storms…

Monday and Tuesday look really good, but that goes downhill very quickly on Halloween. A major storm system will wrap up and move right on top of Kentucky and the Ohio Valley through Thursday and Friday. This storm will be intense and bring the potential for flooding rains, strong thunderstorms and high winds. The European Model shows our monster storm…

Excessive rains can easily cause flooding and flash flooding issues…

The European is consistently showing wind gusts of 50-60mph along and east of the track of the low. Wow! We may also see strong to severe storms in in some of the same areas east of the low.

The GFS is now fully on board…

The Canadian concurs…

Much colder air wraps in behind this powerful storm and has the chance to throw a flake into the region before all is said and done.

Still, the Wednesday-Thursday storm may be a headline maker in our region. I will have updates later today.

Have a good one and take care.