Good Sunday everyone. The leftovers of Isaac continue to SLOWLY work across the region today bringing showers and storms to those who missed out on Saturday. Mother nature must think it’s winter time as the dome across central Kentucky was in full force. Showers and storms impacted every other part of the state but that region. Oh well… it gets smacked around pretty good today and Monday.
Spiralling band of showers and thunderstorms will work across the entire state today. The tropical nature of these storms suggests torrential rains will be likely and this could lead to localized high water concerns. If the past few days mean anything… strong or severe storms can’t be ruled out today. That is something I will be keeping a close eye on as we have a lot of outdoor events scheduled for today.
Those of you heading out to Papa John’s Stadium to watch the Cats and the cards 🙂 will want to keep a close eye on weather conditions. It’s a setup that can have storms play a factor in the game and that’s never a good thing. Follow me on twitter for rapid fire updates on the game time conditions: @kentuckyweather .
Additional tropical showers and thunderstorms will be with us Labor Day and again on Tuesday. Just as the remnants of Isaac finally pull away… a cold front enters the picture by Wednesday with more shower and storm chances. I am also watching another system by the end of the week into next weekend that can deliver more rain.
Let’s get you all set up to track today’s storms:
Watches
Possible Watches
Don’t forget to hit the radar page and use First Alert Defender to track all the action right down to your street. I will drop by with updates as needed.
Have a great Sunday and take care.
Thanks, Chris. Hope to see some of those showers here in Somerset today and tonight. Strong storms can stay away, though. Don’t mind thunderbumpers, just nothing severe.
Have a safe and happy Sunday, all. Hope the CATS/Cards game is a good one.
Chris, thanks for keeping us up to date. You are one in a million. 😀
CB is not the only one that expected the rain to cover more areas in Ky by now. Seems though that the longer it takes to happen, the less we get, rather than a shift of the event window as a whole.
Hopefully not a cruel sign of the winter to come 😉
You never did say if your forecast for this yr differed from the last 8-10
I am sticking with the trends, since based on fact and too powerful to ignore. If any model for a forecast does not weigh in by regressing on actual results against MANY model misses, shame on the model and the interpreter (forecaster) of the models.
Seems the models are getting too complex and the result is a correlation of them appearing “dumber”.
“them” = model and not the forecaster.
This is the way its been all summer. We did get rain in July but in August .25 in of rain is all I have received in southern Woodford County. I know no one is to blame but it is still frustrating to see regions around us getting rain and we remain dry. I am glad to see western KY getting rain, they desperately need it. Hopefully that band rotating toward us will fill in in the middle, but I’m not holding my breath.
I can’t wait until a pattern change. For my neighborhood in northwest Lex, this has to have been the most boring entire summer in terms of weather. No storms at all to write home about, and even those were few and far between. It seems like it has been forever since I’ve even heard thunder! My yard is pitiful. Waiting to see what this system is going to do has been so agonizingly slow. Whoever said time flies was wrong in this case!
True dat. Has been a very static summer.
The radar is much more impressive than the reality. Just a very light rain falling, not enough to make even the slightest difference in soil moisture. This whole thing has been and continues to be a total bust. What a joke.
Frankfort has had a couple of sprinkles out of this mega rain event so far, heavy rain South of Louisville shelbyville area, the dome over Frankort seems to be winning the war, as I said last week when I see it in my rain gauge I will believe it???
You didn’t miss anything from this last line. I’m still taking the under on precipitation totals. Even with the thunderstorm yesterday I’m still at less than an inch for the whole weekend. Bust of a forecast by all.
I hung out some laundry in hopes of tempting some raindrops, but no…my laundry has completely dried. There are several huge cracks in the yard. What a depressing summer this has been. 🙁
Sun has popped out in Frankfort?? Rain hanging up west & south the DOME is really starting to get on my nerves!
Todd I once let the dome get on my nerves but then i realized there was nothing i could do but accept the fact that the dome is just to powerful for us to see any real weather again. Congrats dome undefeated for ten years now. #domedynasty
I knew the rain would find away to go around Frankfort, strong storms will now head toward lexington area, It always refires after it fades over Frankfort. Corbin area also getting rain and storms.
Considering rain and storms were expected for the game and appears to be nothing yet, I am guessing we will be way on the low side of the expected rain totals.
chris do you think morgan co will be in on this tornado watch please answer since the tornado here i get real nervous….
It is amazing how the rain gets to the Harrison County border and just disappears.
Excuse me Todd but don’t forget that you got a huge thunderstorm with almost three inches of rain and we got half an inch here in Lexington – at least at my house. What you said does not always happen. Many times I have seen the storms go through Frankfort and then weaken by the time they got here……..
There was that time a few years ago where Frankfort had a major T storm and it rained over six inches and no one else got anything. I remember it was on the news and the reporters were talking about houses flooding. I think someone may have drowned too. I can’t remember.
take a look at NOAA Jackson( you can do a point forecast and look at bottom menu for this, too) forecast discussion….they are still expecting an event and rapidly deteriorating conditions…aviation discussion is interesting