Good Thursday everyone and happy first full day of summer. Temps over the past few days have been running on the toasty side with 90 or better across much of the state. We have one more really hot day today before we change things up with a cold front. This is the first of two fronts to impact our region in a big way over the next 5 days.
Highs today will be close to 90 degrees yet again. We will see more juice in the air and that will lead to a better threat for some isolated storms going up at any point today. Your regional radar will find whatever is out there…
Our front sweeps in here tonight and Friday and will cause an increase in showers and storms. Locally heavy rains will be likely with some of the storms. Highs for Friday will come way down with low and mid 80s for many.
Saturday looks like a pretty good weather day across the state with lower humidity levels and temps running in the 80s. The GFS shows the 90s being pushed way south for Saturday…
We will warm it up on Sunday and may flirt with 90. Winds should crank up as well ahead of a strong cold front that arrives on Monday. This bad boy will usher in a refreshing air mass that will send our temps below normal. The setup on the GFS shows an anomalous dip in the jet stream across the eastern part of the country…
That’s not a map you see very often in the summer months. The heat heads well to our west with cool, Canadian air working southward into our region. Something tropical may also get cranking down in the Gulf of Mexico. That sounds a lot like September and the GFS Ensembles continue say it may feel like it…
It will be interesting to see how low we can go with the temps during this time. That’s assuming the models are correct and whatever is in the gulf doesn’t bully the pattern around.
Have a fantastic Thursday and take care.
I think it was June 2003 where we saw temps in the 50s for HIGHS. Looking forward to a cooldown.
Keeping my fingers crossed for a little rain.
Thanks, Chris. Don’t mind some heat, but we could really use some rain! Looking forward to a little cooler weather, but NOT ready for fall….theres too much good summer left yet! 😉
Still, we are trying to reinstall some accent lighting in our yard around the flower garden, since someone cut the wires and ripped half of our other ones, so a coupl eof fcooler days might not be such a bad idea! 😉
Have a great Thursday, everyone.
Chris check out these maps – amazing. I put together some comparisons to 1988
Maps
http://weatherobservatory.blogspot.com/
D0 .. I’ll bet we are in D1 here in the LEX area within two weeks.
Lake behind the house is really starting to drop, looks like another drought is likely for most of KY this summer, Crazy KY, record rains last year, we should of known a dry summer would arrive this year! Maybe something tropical will help us out???
Still waiting on at least a few drops of rain watering the garden every single day has gotten way past old