Good Sunday everyone. Showers and thunderstorms have been doing their thing over the past several days and that is helping put a dent in the drought. Saturday’s action hit a lot of the areas that had been left out from the previous days of rain. Patience is a good thing! 😉
This pattern isn’t close to shutting down and we have more boomers in store for the state today and this action may be similar to what we had Saturday. Storms will hit their peak in the afternoon and early evening hours and may drop another inch on some areas.
The tropical air mass will continue into the week ahead and that means some afternoon storms Monday and Tuesday. Temps will begin to ramp up toward the low 90s during this time.
A cold front is slated to arrive on the scene by Thursday and this front looks to be very active. Rounds of showers and thunderstorms will be likely from late Wednesday through Friday across Kentucky. The GFS…
Strong storms and very heavy rains will be possible during this time as that front plows into a super-duper hot and humid environment. Yes, that setup is likely to bring more beneficial rainfall to much of the region. I wouldn’t be surprised to see parts of the eastern half of the state removed from drought status after this week. Yes… I said it.
Here’s our beloved regional radar to track today’s storms…
Have a great Sunday and take care.
Chris, your service and dedication to the people of Kentucky is to be commended. I was reading this post and it hit me just how blessed we are to have someone so willing and eager–and knowledgeable–to help his community and those near him. Keep up the great work; this gardener appreciates you.
Weird, the morning rain is splitting around my house in Nicholasville again, just to the north and just to the south. If the drought around here wasn’t so serious it would almost be comical! We haven’t even come close to the amount of rain Lexington has got.
E-town = sprinkles.
The storms just fizzle before they get to us. Its enough to make you laugh & cry at the same time, lol.
Praying & hoping we get some decent rain soon.
The rain is doing that around Frankfort to, FIZZLE is what has happened with our drought busting hopes in this area! I know plenty of rain has fallen mostly over east ky, but the drought is in full swing around here, .35in total for 3 days, a far cry from the 1to3in. That was forecast!
Chris i miss the winter talk i dont know about everybody else but i need some i hate this hot weather are we ever going to cool off and i just want some fall and winter stuff hate summer…..
Yesterday, I said it hadn’t started to rain here near Hazard. Just a short time later, it stormed and rained hard! LOL
Thanks for the updates Chris!
Radar looks very unimpressive so far today, with that being said Frankfort area will remain dry, less chance of rain is forecast the next couple of days, so it looks now as me and mr. Water hose will be busy again.
Can’t believe it’s dry in Frankfort, it’s been raining pretty hard in Versailles for at least an hour now.
Yes Patience is a Good Thing.
And I love summer. Just wished it would rain more this year than it has.
Very windy here rigth across the river where I live in Northern Garrad County. I was surprised to see more rian earlier this morning. I’m not sure how much we have gotten, but it has been pretty moist here. All the yards and fields were brown and most have really greened up. Just hope we can keep it that way.
Watching the latest in a series of promising showers to our west fade away is it approaches Frankfort, this is just evil at this point!!
What part of Frankfort are you referring to? The mesonet site out of Franklin Co had over an inch yesterday. I live about four miles from the Anderson/Franklin line and I’m closing in on two inches since this began on Thursday.
I had another good downpour this afternoon.
Hope this stuff comes your way!
I live east side by Franklin co high school, we were the one little spot in Frankfort that got the least amount .35 yesterday and .15 today.
Looking at the five-day running totals from KY mesonet the lowest total is .08 inches in Union County (I believe that’s close to Henderson) and the highest is 4.66 inches in Morgan County. Most places seem to be in the one to two inch range.
all we have had is a sprinkle here and there, it seems to just keep missing us
Bg airport has has around 3 inches in the past few days. My part of northwest Lex may have had 1/2 inch I’m guessing