Good Monday everyone and Happy Labor Day. The star at our holiday party is a little fellow by the name of “the storm formerly known as Isaac”. The leftovers of this former hurricane will continue to work across the bluegrass state today and that means additional rounds of tropical showers and thunderstorms. All of this begins a rather active weather week for our region.
Showers and thunderstorms delivered some much needed rains to the state over the weekend. The central Kentucky “dome” was shattered with many areas picking up 1″-2″ of rain Sunday. The showers and storms of today will have the capability of putting down more in the way of heavy rainfall.
The radar tab at the top of the page gives your access to First Alert Defender. That will allow you to track the storms all the way down to street level.
Tropical moisture will hang around into Tuesday across central and eastern Kentucky and I fully expect another round or two of showers and storms. Just as the juice from Isaac begins to push away, a cold front sweeps in late Wednesday with a renewed threat for showers and storms.
A few days ago I was telling you to keep an eye on this coming weekend as I thought the pattern could produce a cut off low pressure across the Ohio Valley. The models are now heading in that direction. Here’s the GFS:
Setups like that this time of year can often lead to an extended period of wet, breezy and cool weather around here. The European Model actually looks wetter, breezier (is that even a word?)and cooler than the GFS:
We will see how it plays out as we get closer to the weekend. I will have updates as needed. Have a great Labor Day and take care.
here in Flatwoods we have only had .75 in of rain. not what i fig we would have had so far.
excellent news for the plants slow soaking cool rain 😉 Hopkinsville is happy today
The rain on the roof was music to my ears last night. Right around 1.6 inches in my part of Bourbon County. Sorry I was so negative and certain that nothing was coming as of yesterday afternoon. I was sad about my dead yard but things are much better today. 🙂
1.3 inches in my part of Frankfort, official measure for Frankfort is closer to 2 in. Amounts! Chris said most places 1-3 in. Amounts so I think that has happened in most areas.
70percent chance of rain for today is a stretch though, ariel coverage on radar looks about 40 percent at best! My backyard today 1 tenth of an inch.
So far, I do not think Richmond even got the 1″ low end. We might have got .75″ with the heavy rain that lasted about 90 minutes. Besides that, we so far since Friday have had sporadic drizzle and light rain. Kind of like when big systems of snow come and central KY gets the table scraps.
Now it is happening with rain systems. Wild.
Chris, I just wanted to let you know that even in the Great State of Ohio, you are the best weathercaster around. I moved from Kentucky to Columbus and still follow you. Your maps and posts have meaning even here, except we know what real football is. 😉
That hurt.
Has Jared Sullinger healed from the chest trauma inflicted upon him by Josh Harrellson?