Good Thursday to one and all. We have a cold front working across the state today and this is bringing a totally different pattern to the region. If you’re hankering for some September weather, we have the setup for you!
Let’s begin with today and roll forward. Highs are 80-85 in most areas with a mix of sun and clouds. Morning showers and storms will linger across the south as the first of two fronts drops in. The one coming in behind that arrives this evening with just a broken band of showers and thunderstorms with it.
Here are your radars to follow along…
Friday into Saturday look absolutely amazing with highs in the 70s with low humidity levels. Sunshiny skies will be noted and lows by Saturday morning will drop deep into the 50s…
This kicks off a pattern that stays much cooler than normal through next week as a trough becomes established across our part of the world. Check out this animation from the EURO that goes into next weekend…
Unfortunately, this setup will also bring additional systems in here that will touch off more showers and storms from time to time. This starts as early as Sunday and goes through next week into the start of the weekend…
As mentioned, temps stay well below normal next week and we are likely to see more mornings deep into the 50s…
Oh yeah!!!
Have a terrific Thursday and take care.
Only 0,17 inches of rain reported by the Kentucky Mesonet last evening here in Maple. Hoping the trough deepens and moves a little farther west and gives Central and Western Kentucky the same cool relief as the East but ” back door fronts ” seldom clear our Central area, as well in Western Kentucky.
Good news is areas that have been pounded by relentless bouts of flooding rains will have a chance to dry out before the next rain event returns.
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My PWS recorded a high temperature yesterday of 91°F, but in the afternoon we had a 15 minute shower that put down 0.45″ of welcome rain. The dewpoint was in the upper 70’s for most of the day, so the air remained uncomfortably humid.
Looking at the temperature readings from my station since May, we have had 55 days where the temperature reached 90° or above, including 5 days at or above 100°.
The tropics remain quiet. There is a tropical wave in the middle of the Atlantic, but the hurricane center is projecting a less than 40% chance for further development.
The Climate Prediction Center still says there is a 60% chance of an active Hurricane season. Earlier predictions had it at 65%. Later in August it is expected to ramp up in the Tropical Atlantic and the Caribbean. I’m thinking now it may be a ” typical season. ” We shall see ???