Good Friday, folks. It’s officially football time in Kentucky as the high school season kicks off this evening. A few showers and storms look to be floating around as we go into a pattern ready to ramp up storm chances the deeper we get into the weekend.

Highs out there today are generally 80-85 for many as humidity levels come up just a tad. It’s not even close to feeling muggy, but the increase in juice means some scattered storms flaring up this afternoon and evening. The greatest coverage is across the east and southeast, but a storm or two may develop all the way back into central parts of the state. Here’s the area I’m highlighting…

Here are your Friday football storm tracking radars…

Storm chances increase for Saturday as another upper level low drops in from the northwest. This wraps up some more widespread showers and storms across the region for Sunday and Monday with scattered stuff pulling away by Tuesday…

From there, we find the longer range ensembles keeping some kind of trough around the region through the rest of the month. Here’s the mean 500mb average for the final 7 days of the month…

GFS ENSEMBLES

EURO ENSEMBLES

At the same time, we may very well see the beginning of a burst from the tropics that can impact the overall pattern. The National Hurricane Center is currently tracking  a disturbance getting into the southern Gulf of Mexico…

You will see some colors showing up out in the Atlantic very soon.

Have a great Friday and take care.