Good Friday, folks. As crazy as it sounds, we’ve made it to the 4th of July holiday weekend. As expected, our temps are running on the seasonally toasty side of the thermometer, but there’s an increasing shot of some storms cutting into the numbers. That’s especially true late in the weekend through next week.
Highs out there today will be range from the middle 80s to lower 90s, depending on where you live. We will keep those numbers going through the holiday weekend.
However, the setup continues to find the hottest temps going up and around us as much lower heights show up from our region into the deep south…
That’s essentially another upper level low spinning and that will try to throw a storm or two at us on the 4th, with better chances showing up from the 5th through 7th…
There’s the chance we keep a few storms going the rest of next week and into next weekend…
The Canadian is sniffing out the same thing…
The Euro isn’t quite as bullish on the storm chances, but you know my thoughts on the Euro this year. It’s really struggling with not being able to see two things… Rain and cooler temps. If the Euro had been accurate, we would have had numerous days in the 90s back in June. Memo to the local weather world… Stop using the Euro until it matches other models and sheds it’s current biases. 🙂
Have a Happy 3rd of July and take care.
It is a rebuilding year for the Euro.
Blame it on 2020.
All I know about the two weather models most frequently used is the American Model goes sixteen days out and the European Model goes ten days out. Of the two, the European Model is preferred by meteorologist for being the most accurate. I myself would rather use the American model, but shorten it to ten days out instead of sixteen.
Chicago (O’Hare Airport) wound up tied for its sixth warmest June ever with an average temperature of 74.0, which is 5.0 degrees above normal. 4.40 inches of rain fell, which is 0.95 inches above normal. This after 10+ inches of rain fell in May. Here is the complete June summary: http://weather.gov/lot/June2020Climate
Interesting that Chicago had more 90 degree days in June (8) than any major city in Kentucky did!
Chris is right about the setup showing the hottest temps going up and around Kentucky. Every day for the next 10 days is predicted to be over 90 degrees here in the Chicago area, with intense heat in the upper 90s predicted for late next week, with not much rain in the forecast until maybe later next week.
I’m an outdoors person, so I’ll have to adapt to it, which I will.
As far as I know there are no records kept for my county of Taylor. All I can find are records for Louisville through the NWS. I observed June this year to be a typical summer month as far as temperatures go with above normal rainfall just here lately.
Mike, if you like the outdoors you would really enjoy hiking in the vast forest around my cabin.
There’s a big forest preserve less than a mile away from me that has miles of hiking and biking trails, along with many lakes, ponds and various wildlife. Now that I have more time off, I get a chance to go hiking or biking just about every day to enjoy everything nature has to offer!
And if the GFS was accurate in the winter months with snowfall Kentucky would average 50 inches of snow per year. (per John Belski) Here in Louisville local mets are going with a heat wave and mid 90’s everyday for the next 7-10 days with a 20% daily storm chance.
I remember the GFS predicting heavy amounts of snow in the Ohio Valley every Winter since I been commenting on KWC. I wish we would have a Winter with 50 inches of Snow instead of 34 degrees and cold rain. Ugh !
From my old man internal weather station, June seemed normal to below normal temp and humidity wise. I don’t recall a June with so many pleasant days in Lexington.