Good Sunday everyone. All eyes in the world of weather are on the soon to be Hurricane Isaac. This storm is rolling across the Florida Keys today and will head toward the central Gulf Coast over the next few days. There’s the chance this storm even brings us some rain before the week is over.
Let’s break down how things are looking:
– Temps today will be hot again. Readings in the upper 80s to low 90s for central and eastern Kentucky with low and mid 90s in the west.
– A little more cloud cover may have an impact on temps where you live. I also expect a storm or two to go back up in the afternoon and evening hours.
– A cold front heads our way late Monday into Tuesday with scattered showers and thunderstorms.
– The weather for the middle and end of the week is all up to what happens with Isaac. I mentioned a day ago that I fully expect this storm to really intensify once into the Gulf. The conditions are there for this thing to potentially grow into a major hurricane. Landfall looks to be somewhere between New Orleans and the Florida Panhandle.
– There is a better than even chance we see the remnants of this storm bring rain to Kentucky. Exactly how and when this happens remains a mystery, but I do like the odds.
Here’s the latest you need to track Isaacr:
![[Image of 5-day forecast and coastal areas under a warning or a watch]](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0912W5_NL_sm2+gif/234710W5_NL_sm.gif)
I will have an update on Isaac and the possible impact on our weather later this evening. Have a great Sunday and take care.
Well look at that a further westward movement so much for it going off the east coast
Thanks, Chris. Sounds like an interesting week of weather coming up. Rain would be a good thing, but I hope that the destruction that comes with a major hurricane landfall is minimized. Have a great Sunday, all, and We will be watching for updates, Chris.
One thing that interests me with the projected more westward track of Issac is that once the system gets inland it would move over an area that has a worse drought situation going than we do here in the central/northern part of Kentucky. The Mississippi River, she’s a runnin’ dry.
The models are still all over the place with each run, anyone jumping on the exact path is only fooling themselves at this point! If it goes west it will miss most of KY to the west and then curve north into the great lakes area!
It looks like the Euro is the only model tracking the storm towards the commonwealth. Which might be good because the euro has had the best record of all the hurricane forecasting models. This reminds me of a winter storm track. Will the Euro or the GFS be correct.
Isaac beginning to ramp up.
Remember 2008, parts of KY had hurricane force winds with lots of damage from a tropical system, but little if any rain fell from that storm. I will believe it when I see it in my rain gauge. As you can tell we have been left high and dry to much this summer for me to have any rainfall forecast confidence?