Good Wednesday and Happy 4th of July. Red, white and blue are the colors of the day as we celebrate our Independence. It looks like mother nature is also in a patriotic mood as she cranks out a few of her own fireworks in the form of scattered thunderstorms. These boomers will go along with another hot and humid day.
The storms of Tuesday were scattered across the state and did deliver a heck of a drink of water to some with a few spots getting more than an inch of rain. We should see more of the same today as the stuff stays fairly scattered for much of Kentucky. We will need to keep an eye on later today into tonight for the potential for a more organized cluster of storms working across the state. Anything that organizes can produce a lot of high winds and heavy rain and that would cause some issues if it cranks.
Highs today will run well into the 90s with 100 possible in the west. The humidity levels will be high and this will make it feel even hotter than it actually is.
The heat continues for the remainder of the week into the start of the weekend. Any areas that get in on a full day of sunshine may make a run at 100 degrees. A few more rounds of showers and thunderstorms will be possible during this time.
The pattern begins breaking down this weekend as the heat heads west and a trough digs in across the eastern half of the country. That should bring an active cold front into the state by Sunday with showers and thunderstorms along and ahead of it. The setup behind it looks like this on the GFS…
That looks much better! Let’s just get it to work out that way. 😉
Let’s get back to tracking the weather of today…
Current Temperatures
Today’s Highs
Happy 4th of July and take care.
This is encouraging. Perhaps the possibility of rain will reverse the current fire bans so that folks can enjoy the fireworks.
Have a safe 4th everyone and Semper Fi to all fellow veterans who watch over this country while we sleep.
Don’t give up hope, y’all. We had the tiniest storm ever yesterday but it rained an inch on our parched farm. I watched it on the Defender app and it could not have been ten miles north to south and maybe five miles east to west but it really put down the rain. We were lucky to be right smack dab in the orange colored part of it.
Breakdown of the hot pattern is also good news. Things are looking up on this patriotic holiday. Enjoy yourselves!
Well i’m glad somebody is getting rain Lord knows we aren’t its probably been close to a month maybe since anything measurable at my house
On Monday, Bowling Green got almost two inches rain (I’m visiting there for the holiday). Even if the storm came at a price in the form of downed trees, some power outages. But the ground is still moist in places this morning.
If that set up occurs like the GFS is saying, watch for derechoes from the northwest. June and July is derecho season.
that is what the states of indiana, ohio, wva, virginia, maryland, and pennsylvania just witnessed last friday evening that brought the most destructive storm in history as far as power outages go, i know cause i was 1 of them from the huntington,wva. area where i stayed without power from friday 6:45pm to sunday at 9pm. what made this worse was the fact we were and still is having the biggest heat wave since 1988 in this part of the world.