Good Friday and welcome to the big holiday weekend that is Labor Day. Things look to become very soggy across the bluegrass state as the remnants of Hurricane Isaac move in. This system is likely to bring rounds of tropical rain producing showers and thunderstorms to our region into the early part of next week.
Isaac is now a Tropical Depression as it tracks across Arkansas into Missouri today. This system is pulling up a tremendous amount of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and this will touch off scattered showers and thunderstorms today.
The action will kick into high gear later tonight and continue through Saturday and Sunday. Showers and storms will become common and these will put down a lot of water in a short amount of time. It’s not going to rain all the time, but when it does, it will REALLY come down.
Isaac continues to look like a very slow moving system as it crosses the Ohio Valley this weekend. The updated track of this storm may bring it right across northern Kentucky by Monday. This will increase the risk for, at least isolated, flooding rains. Here’s my latest rainfall forecast through Monday…
If Isaac’s track comes a little farther south than the map shows, the heaviest corridor of rain will also shift southward. Flash flooding is possible across the state this weekend… especially for areas getting in on repeat thunderstorm action.
Let’s track Isaac…
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I will have updates as needed, so check back. Have a great Friday and take care.
can someone tell me what the number code is
What number code are you referring to ?
the code on the one thing above the radar
OK Chris, your map is showing the low moving over St. Louis area and then curving east, the latest look at the radar shows the low much closer to the Kansas city area, Is it me or is this thing moving much further west and north than the projected path from yesterday, I don’t see how we get1-4in. Rains out of this at this point??
It’s not quite as far north as KC yet. The center Is just west of Springfield but it is on the western edge of the guidance and still moving NNW instead of NE. It will be interesting to see how much rain falls across the state. No solid rain shield, just bands of storms. I have a feeling some people will get very lucky and others will get next to nothing. Will also be interest to see how the main system holds up just sitting there in the heart of the drought, that dry ground may do a nimbler on it before it makes to Indiana and Ohio.
Agree with you on that, banded heavy rains have a big variability in just a few miles apart. I think 4in rains will be rare but hopefully we all get an inch or 2??
Yea, can’t help but feel the extremely dry ground in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri sapped a bit of energy, at least at first. But there were flood warnings for northern Arkansas. Despite this flood problem, one could perhaps almost hear the parched ground and vegetation in Arkansas desperately lapping up the moisture.
http://www.droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
The remains of Isaac still have to cross the Wabash river valley – very hard hit by the drought – before nearing northern KY.
My hunch is that the dual-pol radar upgrade for NWS Charleston WV might be postponed, but perhaps a small price for getting badly needed rain.
If the drought stricken areas get a nice soaking rain, will that help moisten up the atmosphere around here? It seems many nice rains have evaporated as they approach my part of the world. (Bourbon County) Maybe if we get back in balance to our west, we can get more rain????