Good Monday, everyone. Here’s hoping you had a fantastic 4th of July! As we roll into the post-holiday period, we are finding a fairly active pattern across the eastern half of the country. This is complete with a couple of cold fronts and a tropical system approaching Florida.
Let’s begin with today’s weather and roll forward.
Highs are deep into the 80s with a little more humidity into the picture. This may lead to a storm or two popping this afternoon and evening, but this looks few and far between. Here are your radars…
Tropical Storm Elsa is moving across Cuba today and this is taking a toll on the storm. From there, the storm moves across the Keys and toward the Gulf coast of Florida over the next few days. Here’s the latest information and track forecast from the National Hurricane Center…
As this storm comes inland, it’s likely to turn northeastward up the east coast. At the same time, a cold front drops into our region, bringing scattered showers and storms for the middle and end of the week. Here’s how the EURO sees things…
A second front then moves in here at some point this weekend…
Between the two, temps are likely to spike for a few days, then come back down to below normal once the second front blasts through here.
I’m still eyeing a week or two later this month that can turn toastier than anything we’ve seen so far this summer.
Have a great Monday and take care.
It may be a tame summer so far in Kentucky in regard to temperatures, but it certainly hasn’t been in the Chicago area. O’Hare Airport’s average temperature in June was 74.3 degrees, which is 3.7 degrees above normal and ties for the fourth warmest June ever here! There were eight 90+ degree days (all in the first 19 days of the month).
Of course, it was a very wet and stormy month also, as the 6.78 inches of rain that fell at O’Hare made it the 13th wettest June ever for Chicago. The SW suburbs where I live received a similar amount.
Far Northern IL received very little rain, though. At Rockford, which is about 90 miles NW of Chicago and just south of the Wisconsin border, they received only 1.26 inches of rain for the month, which made it the sixth driest June there.
Yesterday was a very nice day for all Independence Day celebrations. As far as June goes, I would say it was about normal on rainfall and temperature here in central Kentucky, but that is not officially accurate information as many areas to my north received flooding rains.
Not a bad forecast.
I don’t like to see the word toastier.
toastier?? now that makes me happy! bring on the toasty sunshine please 🙂
Ready for real heat.