Good Monday, folks. We are rolling into a new week with more of the same for much of the week. We will finally change things up a bit by the end of the week as a blast of late September air rolls into the region and settles in for a bit.
Let us begin with the precious present and roll forward.
It’s a steam bath of a day with temps 85-90 for most, but some low 90s show up in the west. Humidity levels are way up there, so that means a high sweat factor.
Scattered showers and storms will flare up once again. Locally heavy rains are possible, but this isn’t very widespread Here are your radars to follow along…
Showers and thunderstorms then start to increase Tuesday and continue through Wednesday and Thursday. That happens as a cold front drops in and slows down from the northwest. This front is being pushed by a surge of late September air.
Here’s an animation showing the stormy action…
Those rains may cause additional high water issues across the state in what is one of the wettest patterns you will ever see.
The air behind this front will be amazing and should get your fall juices flowing by the weekend. Highs may stay in the 70s for a few days with overnight lows deep into the 50s. Check out the numbers…
How y’all like that?!! Don’t answer… It’s rhetorical. 😁🍁🍂
That looks like the beginning of a cooler than normal pattern as a trough gets established across the eastern half of the country through the middle of the month…
While that does trend cooler, it may also turn fairly unsettled once again. Ugh.
Have a great Monday and take care.
I wish we could send some of this rain to Texas. I hear Lake Meade is also rising a bit
Yesterday afternoon we had 1.28 inches of a very heavy rain/ shower that didn’t last more than 15 minutes. Lots of rain in a very short time. The soil moisture is beginning to recharge after a long dry spell earlier in my county of Taylor.
I am looking forward to the cooler weather.
I saw a headline the other day that fall was forecasted to have above normal temps.
I did not have time to read the article therefore I don’t know how much credence I can give it.
Here’s NOAA outlook for our Autumn months. Usually their accurate. I remember in August 1976 NOAA was predicting a “a colder Fall and Winter. ” If you were around you would remember those Falls and Winters as being what they predicted.
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=2
We had another hot, steamy day yesterday in the Bowling Green area, a day that was loosely based on most days this Summer. High temperature was 95°, and with a dewpoint near 80°, the heat index reached 113°. There were significant thunderstorms ringing the area, which, as usual, managed to avoid us, and we ended up with only 0.06″ of rain.
The tropics are beginning to stir, barely, with a tropical wave off of the African coast, which the Hurricane Center has assigned a 40-50% chance of development. A tropical system would be welcome in the West, but would end up compounding the disastrous flooding in Eastern Kentucky.
Schroeder, I for one remember those fall and winters from 1977 to 79. Never forget them and nothing has compare since then here in our area. We had some glimps of them but nothing that was so prolong through out the winters of those years