Good Saturday, everyone. It’s our first ever Pot Of Chili ALERT for Memorial Day Weekend. Temps out there today will be among the coolest highs ever recorded this late in May for many areas and this blast of chill looks to linger into Sunday. As we look longer term into early June, it’s a very active pattern taking shape.
Today’s temps will hold from the upper 40s to middle 50s for much of the day, especially in central and eastern Kentucky. Those numbers are cold enough to set a record cold high temp for the day, but the actual high will have already occurred just after midnight this morning.
Gusty winds will add a little chill to the air as low clouds try to spit out a few showers. Here are your radars to follow along…
Temps across the eastern half of the state will only drop a few degrees overnight into Sunday morning as clouds linger. Farther west… clearing skies may allow temps to make a run at 40 degrees. Can a cold thermometer dip into the upper 30s?
Clouds may hang around through Sunday across the central and east. If this happens, getting to 60 may be a struggle in the east…
Memorial Day looks good with 40s in the morning and low to mid 70s in the afternoon.
June starts quiet enough on Tuesday, but the pattern goes stormy on us starting Wednesday. Storm threats will likely carry us through the first week of the new month…
This is the trend the Extended GFS Ensembles have been shouting for a while now. The current rainfall numbers are above normal through June…
That likely keeps temps normal to a little below.
Have a great Saturday and take care.
I told ya chili was good any time of the year. 😉
Don’t worry, it won’t be cool and wet all summer.
Exactly !
The official high temperature Friday at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport was only 49 degrees, just two degrees above the all-time coldest high temp for the date, along with a stiff NE wind. It hit 51 at the NWS Forecast Office in the SW suburbs. Chicago was among the four coldest places in the entire country Friday afternoon, with only Buffalo, Syracuse, and Detroit being colder. Quite a reality check after seven days in a row of 80+ degree temps, including a 90-degree high Monday.
0.50 inches of rain fell at O’Hare, and 0.81 inches at the NWS Forecast Office. There were even a few loud rumbles of thunder in the afternoon with the rain despite the very chilly conditions.
Part of a tree fell onto Lake Shore Dr. during the afternoon because of the strong winds, crashing on two cars. Fortunately, there were no serious injuries.
We had a heavy downpour of rain late yesterday afternoon followed by high wind gust. This morning the temperature is 53 degrees and drizzle. Hopefully, tomorrow the skies will clear making for a very pleasant holiday day on Monday.