Good Sunday, folks. It’s the last Sunday of April and it’s another absolutely amazing weather day across Kentucky and surrounding areas. Temps continue to reach early summertime readings, but changes are about to work in over the next few days. These changes bring another frost threat by the middle of the week.
Highs today are low and middle 80s for many, but clouds will filter into the west during the afternoon and evening. Those clouds may spit out a shower or storm in the west during the evening with a greater chance for showers and storms into Monday.
That’s when a cold front sweeps eastward with a line of showers and storms through Monday night. A lingering shower or two is likely on Tuesday before we get this system to scoot to our east.
The models have backed off a bit on the rainfall totals with the greatest threat in the west…
Chilly temps come in behind this for Tuesday and Wednesday with highs well below the normal mid and low 70s. Lows by Wednesday morning may reach the frosty low and middle 30s…
That shot of chill pulls away by the end of the week as southwest winds kick in ahead of another big dip in the jet stream. This southwest wind should really boost temps for a day or two…
The first week of May could very well feature some pretty chilly air with a little ugly. Upper lows like this in the spring are never a good thing…
Kentucky Derby Week should be well below normal, but I’m hoping we can get a little spike by Derby Weekend.
Still, the EURO Ensembles show a much colder than normal 10 day period ending May 7th…
I have some summer talk coming in the week ahead, so be sure to come back for all that jazz.
I mentioned the chance for some evening showers and storms in the west this evening and I have your friendly Sunday radars to follow whatever gets in there…
Have a sensational Sunday and take care.
I have I random off topic question: It’s about snakes. Do we have copperheads In Lexington? I’m not 100% sure but I thought I saw one yesterday and it freaked me out and no I don’t ever kill anything…I remember reading that copperheads are extremely rare in the bluegrass and they only like to stay by the river…maybe because of all the open fields or something? That’s literally the 2nd snake I’ve seen since I have lived here..I’m not 100% sure what kind it was I saw but looking at it online it did look very similar to what I saw.
do we have copperheads in Lexington? I thought I saw one yesterday…I read that in Fayette county they are extremely rare and mostly stay by the river…I guess they don’t like the open fields in the bluegr-a-s-s? I’m not 100% but looking at them online it does look very similar to what I saw. That’s the 2nd snake I’ve seen since living here. Oh, and I don’t kill anything…I let them be. Snakes still freak me out though
We have Copperheads and Timber Rattlers around our area, but have not seen or heard of any for quite a while. Maybe they all left or became instinct ?
We need Rain now, but there isn’t any in our forecast for the next fourteen days. UGH !!!
Not totally certain about Lexington, but we sure have our share of them just to the east. My neighbor has already seen several this spring. I’ve only seen a black snake, which is always welcome as long as it stays outside! Copperheads have a really distinct saddle pattern on their backs. If you get a look, that’s one way to tell whether it’s a copperhead or a harmless lookalike.
It made it all the way up to 84 degrees at O’Hare Airport Saturday, and 83 degrees at the NWS Forecast Office in the SW Suburbs, the first 80+ degree day here in the Chicago Metro Area in over 6 1/2 months, since October 2nd.