Good Wednesday everyone. Soaking rain has been falling across parts of southern Kentucky over the past few days. This action will stay concentrated across many of the same areas today before spreading northward over the next couple of days. The setup ahead may bring a lot of rain to many areas of the state that desperately need it.
Let’s start you out with the weather of today. We should see another wild temp gradient setting up and it’s being fueled by the past week’s worth of rain… or lack thereof. Take a look at the past 7 days of rainfall…
That map is showing the departure from normal and you can clearly see how the areas from western Lexington to Covington toward Louisville got very little rain. It’s not a coincidence those areas hit the low 90s Tuesday as the baked ground did its thing. Something similar may happen with our temps out there today.
Showers and thunderstorms will be more common across the southern half of the state with some isolated action farther north.
The front across Tennessee will slowly lift northward by Late Thursday into Friday. That will hang around here through the weekend and the showers and storms along it may be enhanced by a few waves of low pressure. The HPC updated 5 day forecast…
The GFS is a bit farther eastward with the axis of heaviest rain during the same time period…
The wetter pattern is going to try to hang tough into next week. #keepyourfingerscrossed
Have a great Wednesday and take care.
As said in many previous posts, I’m not getting my hopes up here in Versailles! Until we have actual rain, I’ll keep watering my plants.
Looks like the rain is a bit further south today than yesterday
Strange, but true! My Mom called about 2:15 and said that it was raining very hard at her house and the sun was shining. I live less than a mile away and it wasn’t raining at my house. The sky over Irvine was very dark. It is now raining at my house, the sun is shining, wind blowing very hard from the east. A strange weather day!
Etown ky. Still dry as a bone.
Yep.
Temp made it to 95 last hour here at my location in Frankfort, about .60in. Of rain in the last 4 weeks here, ground is desert dry, bring that rain Chris, if we miss out on this next few days of rain chances it will get very ugly, possible water restrictions!
I’ve been impressed by the high temperatures well into the 90’s so far this week when everybody was telling us over the weekend that we would see 80’s for highs all week long. 😉
Still beats 104 degrees that is for sure!
LOL! That “strong storm” you mentioned “on top of Bardstown”….??!
Dream on!
1 dark cloud, 3 thunder-claps, and (est.) 32 raindrops….
We are still brown/yellow and “crunchy” over here, Chris! It doesn’t matter~ if there’s rain or snow showing up on top of Bardstown/Nelson Co., you can bet your last DIME it’s going back UP in the clouds, because it’s sure not falling DOWN!!! 🙂
So tomorrow, we want to go fishing in Stanford, ky…….. Will it be raining there all day tomorrow or dry in the morning for fishing?