Good Thursday and welcome to October! As hard as it is to believe, we’ve made it to the tenth month of what has been a very crazy year. The new month is starting out chillier than normal, but a true blast of early October cold air dives in tonight and carries us into the start of the weekend. Can we get in on a touch of frost? That’s possible by Friday and Saturday.
If you recall back in August, I promised you guys a completely different September compared to last year and Mother Nature delivered the goods…
September 2020 is the first below normal September in Lexington since 2012 and a whopping 11 degrees colder than last September, the hottest on record. We also finish more than 1″ above normal in rainfall. Last September was our driest month in history with only a Trace. #kywx
— Chris Bailey (@Kentuckyweather) October 1, 2020
Day 1 of October looks good for the most part as another front drops in from the northwest late today into the evening. This may spawn a couple of showers, especially in the north…
The cold air coming behind this really takes center stage for Friday and Saturday and may give us our first taste of patchy frost. Lows by Friday morning will drop into the 30s for some areas. Any bit of wind and clouds would keep frost from forming, so keep that in mind. With the cold air overtop of us during the day, we may fire up clouds and an isolated shower in the afternoon. That would keep our temps in the upper 50s for highs in many areas.
Friday night will once again see the numbers dropping into the 30s, but any patchy frost depends on clouds, fog and wind.
Saturday looks like a REALLY nice fall day as temps stay well below normal. Highs will be in the upper 50s and low 60s for many with some increase in clouds. Those clouds are ahead of our next system moving in for Sunday and Monday.
This is a highly anomalous pattern featuring a DEEP trough right on top of us through the weekend…
This second system looks to roll across the state Sunday into Monday. The GFS is starting to find some rain with this again, but it still looks too flat and fast…
The Canadian and Euro continue to be stronger and slower with this system…
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Temps will be chilly once again under this low, but some really nice fall weather follows it into the middle of next week. From there it’s all about another trough dropping into the eastern part of the country and a possible tropical system developing in the Caribbean. We will get into all that jazz and some winter talk in the coming days.
Another update comes your way later today, so check back. Make it a good one and take care.
