Good Saturday, everyone. We continue to track thunderstorms impacting parts of the state today. This action may still cause a few problems in the east before it winds down. Once we get into Sunday, it’s all about a September cold front dropping into the state. That brings below normal air for the week ahead, but it may be asking too much to keep a few showers or storms from showing up from time to time.
As always, let us begin with today. Showers and storms will be more prominent across the eastern half of the state and this is the region we will continue to focus on for some local high water issues. Here are your tracking radars…
A cold front swings into the state later Sunday and should bring a broken line of thunderstorms with it. One or two of these may be on the strong side…
There’s almost a second front dropping in on Monday and that looks to feature another shot at a shower or storm. That system may slow down just to our southeast, delivering the threat for a few more showers and storms into Tuesday and Wednesday…
Much cooler than normal temps continue through the rest of the week and likely into next weekend. Unfortunately, there’s an increasing threat for some unsettled weather…
Have a great day and take care.
The giant umbrella was open over our house again yesterday. My rain gauge shows .08 for the day. Next week is looking great. Unfortunately, I will be seeing it from a hospital window as I go in for back surgery on Monday. I’m going to miss my daily fix of this weather blog.
Hopefully everything goes well with your surgery!
Thanks Chris, Hopefully the dew points will lower into the upper 50’s next week along with at lease a couple of days with Sunshine. Have a great Saturday.
The tornado count from Monday’s Derecho/severe weather event in the Chicago area has increased, as the count has been upped to a total of 15 tornadoes in the NWS Chicago County Warning Area. This ties two other dates (both since 2014) for the most tornadoes in a single calendar day within the county warning area. Ten of the tornadoes were rated EF 1, the other five EF 0. One of the EF 1 tornadoes tracked just four miles south of where I live.
The weather has been great since then here, nowhere near as wet as Kentucky has been. Sunny skies, warm temps and low humidity have been the rule. There’s just a chance of a scattered storm later today, followed by more sunny, warm days with low humidity. Great weather to enjoy the outdoors for sure!
ComEd, the power company that services most of Northern IL, said the other day that they have never experienced a storm that impacted so much of the area at once to cause so many widespread power outages like what happened on Monday.
Wet indeed Mike, yesterday morning we had 3 plus inches of rain and the dew point is through the roof in the afternoon.
Very scary storm you had in the Chicago area. Wow 15 tornado reports !
Hope you didn’t have to toss out too much food from the fridge/freezer while your power was out. But that might be a minimal issue in the grand scheme of things considering the footage of homes with parts of their roofs gone or with big trees resting in the living room.
At least in Tennessee and Kentucky, tornadoes are generally far fewer and weaker this time of year compared to the spring months. Upon first learning this fact many years ago, it seemed very contradictory considering all the summer t-storms we get. But among other apparent factors, the jet stream is usually both weaker and farther north this time of year so on average any shear would mostly be occurring over the northern states. Minnesota had a fatal EF-4 tornado just this last month/July. Anyway, neither KY nor TN have had any July tornado deaths, at least not in recorded history. An 1854 (yes, that year is correct) tornado at Louisville is the last time tornado fatalities occurred during August in KY, and even that was “only” an F2 (August tornado deaths are equally rare in Tennessee but I don’t recall the exact stats).
BTW, the highest non-tornadic wind from the recent derecho I’ve come across is 112 mph at Midway IA which is just north of Cedar Rapids.
Yeah, I think Iowa got hit even harder from the straight-line derecho winds than Northern IL did.
Believe it or not, I’ve had several frozen dinners that were in the freezer when my power was out for 32 1/2 hours that I put in the oven, and all of them were good! No food poisoning or anything like that for me. Didn’t have to throw anything out!
Mike, In late January 2009 central Kentucky experience a historical ice storm that caused widespread power failure. I was without heat and lights for 15 long days. We had a small portable generator, but wasn’t enough to really do any good. Just had to “tough” it out. I survived or I wouldn’t be here typing this information. However in today’s World I would not survive if that weather type ever happened again.
Hopefully, my power company has made some much needed upgrades in the years following.
Wow! I remember in mid-January of 2009 here in the Chicago Metro Area we had a couple of days of extreme bitter cold temps, with lows in the teens below zero one night. That must have been around the time you guys had that historic ice storm.
I’m currently out in eastern Kentucky 3 and a half hours away from home (Wayne county ky) on a business trip with my husband and let’s just say the weather isn’t being so nice too him. Looks like will be here another two days. It’s done nothin but rain off and on here in paintsville