Good Friday, folks. We continue to track rounds of showers and thunderstorms across the Commonwealth and this action rolls on right on through the weekend. The threat for additional flooding and flash flooding takes us through Saturday, at least. That’s also when the potential for severe storms joins in our wet weather party.

Today will feature showers and storms early on, but the action decreases a bit during the afternoon. This will increase during the evening and overnight as another low pressure develops and slowly rolls northward across western Kentucky overnight and into Saturday. That brings additional heavy rainfall into the area and also brings an increasing risk for strong to severe storms.

The current risk for severe storms is just to our southwest for today…

That threat focuses farther north to encompass much of Kentucky for Saturday…

The setup is there for damaging wind producing thunderstorms and there’s enough shear to get some of those storms spinning. That could produce a tornado or two, so that’s going to be something for us to keep a close eye on.

Scattered showers and storms will continue into Sunday as we get ready for another system to dive in from the northwest into early next week. As this is happening, Tropical Storm Isaias is forecast to become a hurricane as it works toward Florida then up the east coast…

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You can see how that runs the coast on the GFS…

That brings another system down behind it and into our region later next week as temps continue to run below normal for early August.

I will have another update later today. Until then, I have you all set to do some Friday storm tracking…

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Make it a great day and take care.