Good Sunday, everyone. It’s another day of the same song and dance in terms of the weather across the bluegrass state. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will once again put down torrential rains in some spots. The big story continues to be with the double hurricane hit brewing in the Gulf of Mexico and the increasing potential one of those directly impacts the weather here in Kentucky.
As always, we kick things off with what’s shaking out there today. You already know the drill because it’s the same as the past few days. Local high water issues are possible as the scattered boomers slowly work across the region.
Here are your Sunday storm trackers…
This action is much more scattered for Monday, but it’s still going to be around and can still cause local issues.
Ok, let’s focus on the historic back to back hurricane hits in the Gulf of Mexico and the potential impact on our weather. Marco and Laura are both forecast to become hurricanes and head toward Louisiana or very neaby in the week ahead. We may have only a day or two between landfalls.
Marco is actually first in Line as it is already in the Gulf of Mexico…
Marco won’t waste any time as it moves northwest toward Louisiana with an expected landfall on Monday. Though, I look at that satellite and wonder if it doesn’t keep going farther north and east. Hurricane Warnings are likely going up as the National Hurricane Center tracks this storm toward that Monday afternoon landfall…
Once Marco comes inland, it’s likely to curl west into Texas and grab a front row seat to watch Laura slam into nearly the same area of Louisiana later Tuesday or Wednesday.
Laura is still moving through the Caribbean and rolling into Cuba. The interaction with land is keeping this from strengthening until it gets out into the Gulf of Mexico. Once there, it won’t take long for this to become a hurricane. Can it get to a Cat 2 or 3? That’s possible. Here’s the current forecast from the National Hurricane Center…
The current clustering among the Hurricane Models is right into Louisiana for a Wednesday landfall. From there, you can see how what’s left rides up the Mississippi River before turning right into the lower Ohio Valley…
That’s actually a track we have seen from several other storms through the years and one that’s almost climo for this type of setup.
This would put Kentucky in line for the possibility of heavy rain and some hefty wind from this system later next week.
I will have an update on that later today. Have a good one and take care.
Interesting Chris, As you will be watching Marco I will be too. I’m praying that wind shear will keep Tropical Storm Marco from reaching hurricane status. Looking at the water vapor loop it looks like Marco is moving more towards Mississippi or Alabama shore ?
Tropical Storm Laura in my opinion is too early to call on her path and strength, but I have a feeling she will be a “bad girl.”
Back to central Kentucky weather, yesterday evening we had 0.10 inches of rain in my backyard.
Back to back….amazing!