Good evening, gang. We are rolling into the weekend with all eyes on a tropical system in the Gulf of Mexico. This system will likely bring a few showers into parts of Kentucky before the weekend is over. From there, we get a potent cold front to sweep in with strong storms for Monday. And then… 🙂

Tropical Storm Nestor continues to churn toward the Florida Panhandle and should make landfall early Saturday. Here’s the latest from the National Hurricane Center…

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This storm heads toward the Carolinas, but will throw some rain into Kentucky. The main area will be across the southeast. Here’s the rainfall map from the NAM…

This sets the stage for a very strong cold front to blast the state on Monday. Showers and storms become widespread and some of the storms may be on the strong side and produce high winds…

Heavy rainfall is also likely with these storms.

Temperatures come down quickly on a gusty northwest wind behind the departing front. After a rebound in the numbers, we focus on the next system rollin in by the end of the week into next weekend. The models continue to vary on how to handle this, but they all agree on some cold air getting involved in a low pressure system…

The cold look continues to show up very strongly on the operational models and the ensembles. Check out how far below normal the average the numbers get from the 21 member GFS ensembles…

Enjoy the evening and take care.