Good Thursday, everyone. As you can see, the brand spanking new Kentucky Weather Center is up and running. I’m very happy with the look and functionality of the new site, but we still have a few hiccups to work through in the coming days, so just hang tough. Registration is among the issues being resolved. KWC is 12 years old now (has it really been that long? ) and this is far and away the biggest investment I’ve made and I’m hoping to add a few more things to it later this year. Here’s hoping you guys enjoy the new Kentucky Weather Center.
As usual, let’s start with today and roll forward. Our cold front is slowing down across the lower Ohio Valley and will continue to be the focus for more rounds of showers and thunderstorms. Just like what we’ve seen in recent days, a few storms may be strong or locally severe. The greatest threat for this may be across the eastern half of the state. Here’s the current severe weather outlook from the Storm Prediction Center…
Local wind damage and large hail will be possible with any strong storm that goes up. The threat for flash flooding is still there and that’s something we are going to have to keep in mind for a while.
This front will sag a bit farther south for Friday and early Saturday and this should give the northern parts of the state better weather than the south and far west. Temps will also be better through this time.
Storms will increase again later Sunday into early next week as we see a big time dip in the jet stream across the eastern half of the country. Some of those storms may be strong or severe and cause local high water issues…
This dip in the jet stream may bring some very nice air in here to end July and begin August…
The EURO CONTROL run goes out through the first week of August and shows this trough lingering with a tropical system coming out of the Gulf…
That would appear to be from a 3rd system out off the coast of Africa right now. Ahead of it, we have Gonzalo in the Atlantic and Hanna in the making in the Gulf…
Here’s the Gulf system…
As usual I have all your tracking tools for the day…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Have a great day and take care.
