Good Friday to one and all. The rain arrived on cue Thursday with widespread showers across the south and east and some tropical thunderstorms in other areas. The rain kicks into high gear on this Friday the 13th as a weak area of low pressure lifts northward across the eastern half of the state. Our weekend will then bring more in the way of scattered boomers.
The steady rain of today will be more common across central and eastern Kentucky and much more scattered in the west. Locally heavy rainfall will be likely today and there may be a corridor that produces enough for some local high water issues. Where will this set up? Radar will eventually tell all.
A tropical air mass will remain in place through the weekend and this will help spawn more showers and storms. These will be common during the afternoon and evening hours and can cause some problems of their own. That action is likely to carry us into next week.
The latest 5 day Rain Forecast from the HPC continues to advertise some high totals…
That’s a thing of beauty! It’s time for mother nature to deliver the goods and help our brown grass turn blue… or green. (Apologies to Crystal Gayle :)) PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT EVERY AREA WILL NOT GET A TON OF RAIN EACH DAY. It’s a total over a several day period.
I will have updates as needed here and via twitter. Follow me @kentuckyweather .
Have a great day and take care.
Bring it on.
We have finally been getting some decent rains in the Nashville TN area. Will try to send some of this love. 🙂
Far western KY and northwestern TN have the most serious drought conditions, although the HPC map shows those areas may not get as much rain as places just to the east.
As an alumnus of Western Kentucky University, I stumbled across this article about WKU meteorology students researching the March 2 eastern Kentucky twisters.
http://wkunews.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/tornado-research/
WXman, perhaps this brings back some memories?
Thank you Chris. It feels so nice to wake up to rain hitting the roof and windows. Ahhh.
I’ve tried to post twice and they never show up.
No rain yet in Frankfort area, the radar looks like most of this rain today will be Lex area east. No big surprise here at desert central.
yea rain setting up in this area, u see all way back in western tenn NE, so not widespread but SE/E got yesterday so good see others getting a slow rain as that the best.
The rain is about 10 miles south and east of my area of Frankfort, now that it’s close it is drying up and moving more east than north, how can they forecast a 70 percent chance of rain and we still get nothing??????
lol todd i live in stamping ground and the other weather networks said rain should be ending by 2:00 and we havent had the first drop yet.
I’ve noticed that it just can’t make it past Interstate 64. I’ve had dark clouds for two days now and so far, no more than a handful of very light sprinkles. The trees are really starting to look bad and I’m afraid we’re going to lose tens of thousands of them here in Louisville, if not more. I was in Frankfort last week and noticed that it doesn’t look any better there. I feel your pain and frustration. I guess I’m going to have to water the plants and trees tonight since I had been holding out the last few days thinking it might rain. Silly me for thinking that.
Whoa, what’s that stuff they are getting down in TN? Don’t think I’ve seen such a huge swath of light gray bordered by pink/red ever on the radar. Is that accurate?
Your going to have an area north of I-64 from Frankfort to Louisville, stretching just along the western side of the KY river that has been, and looks like they will continue to not receive a .10 of rain in a long time.
The rain has been a beautiful thing here in my neck of the woods. Thank you Mother Nature.
I guess I will be watering tonight, like Kelly said earlier I to have put off watering the last couple of days due to the promised rains that have been forecast, all you folks getting rain are very lucky, most of the rest of us north of I64 are still high and dry!
The forecast was a bust for Frankfort area, I have rarly seen a forecast of 70 percent chance of rain and never saw a drop, Chris says most of ky has seen good rains, sorry, this just is not true, maybe from I75 south and east.
E-Town’s gettin the shaft too. Nice of pretty dark scary looking clouds though…but just a sprinkle here and there. Never seen anything like it in my life.
Our 80% chance of rain yesterday and today is a bust.
*bunch of*
Yeah, the parts of the state that really need it just aren’t seeing it. Every station here in Louisville, along with the NWS, totally blew this one. Kind of pathetic. If I did my job like that it wouldn’t be a good thing.
Spot on! Maybe they should have said some parts of the state is so dry rain may have a hard time forming in some areas, I’m wondering if the very bad drought in Indiana is having a effect on the rain development in the nWest parts of central KY??
I see that the local weather folks are doubling down on their wet and rainy forecast for tomorrow and Sunday. They’ve gone all in on this and they own it. Not one of their better weeks. I’ve decided that the only forecast I’ll trust is that there is a 100% chance that the only moisture that hits my lawn will be whatever comes from my dogs.
Now that is a forecast I can trust 🙂
STILL no rain in Frankfort! There is five miles away in Versailles though! The rain dome is strong this year!
North central ky and southern indiana are so very dry that the precip is just getting eaten up by the drought conditions. Very frustrating and quite concerning granted we are in a unstable atmosphere but the drought conditions here in north central ky and southern indiana are winning this battle so far. I hope in the coming days we get some good widespread rainfall if we dont get the rain between now and Sunday are chances here fade fast. Western ky and north central ky southern indiana will see triple digit heat fairly quickly again.