Good Monday, everyone. It’s the final full week of August and the pattern looks rather normal for this time of year. Normal isn’t something we’ve seen a lot of this summer or really over the past several years.
Speaking of normal, the August temps through Sunday are averaging a little below normal across Kentucky and surrounding areas…
If we look at the last 90 days (since late May), we can see the average temp comes out very close to average…
That’s hard to imagine given how many 100-110 degree days the GFS and its worshippers gave us this summer. 🙄😜
And rainfall for this same 90 day period shows well above normal for much of the state except the far west…
You literally had some weather folks trying to convince you a mega drought was coming at the same time we were entering into one of the wettest setups in our state’s history.
As far as the weather is concerned for today, we have an upper level low spinning through with scattered showers and thunderstorms. This will mainly be across the central and eastern part of the state and will show up on your friendly radars…
Temps today are in the upper 70s to low 80s for most of the sate.
Tuesday will continue to feature a few clouds and the smallest shower chance in the east. Temps are similar to today. Those numbers will then climb deeper into the 80s for the rest of the week, but our sky condition remains a bit of a question mark.
The EURO takes some tropical moisture out of the Mississippi Valey into the Tennessee Valley by Thursday and then brings some of that into our region. The EURO is showing scattered showers and storms from Thursday through Friday and Saturday…
The EURO then brings a setup with more in the way of scattered showers and storms into the closing days of August next week…
The Canadian also keeps thing active, but it does so with a slow-moving low pressure moving in…
Make it a magical Monday and take care.
Thanks Chris, yesterday afternoon we received a couple of decent thundershowers which added 0.60 inches of rain, to our August total of 3.11 inches. Only one 90 degree temperature showing up on the 14 day Ventusky outlook. Hope this pans out ?
The State of Alaska continues to show above normal temperatures over the next 6 to 10 days, which may signify a change to the overall weather pattern for the Eastern half of the Country for this Fall and Winter ?
The Tropical Atlantic and Caribbean continue to be mostly inactive at this time but, an active later season can’t be ruled out just yet ?
Accuweather forecasting no rain for me until next Monday and some 90 degrees days this week. Only time will tell.
Overall not a bad week for August.
Over the course of an entire year, Bowling Green normally averages 47 days where the temperature will meet or exceeds 90°F, Since May 1st, my PWS just south of Bowling Green has recorded 61 days where the temperature hit or exceeded 90°F, and we hit +100°F on 5 of those days. There have been 27 days since May 1st where the Dewpoint temperature exceeded 80°F. To say that the Summer of 2022 has been wildly uncomfortable is an understatement, especially when you consider that we have another 31 days of Summer to go.
Yesterday evening we picked up 0.24″ of rain from a storm that skirted Bowling Green’s southern border. Most of the city remained high and dry, so we were fortunate to get what we got in my locale. For the month of August, I’ve recorded 1.73″ of rain, which is probably where we’ll end up at month’s end.
The tropics remain quiet. There is a disorganized tropical wave near the Cape Verde islands, which the hurricane center gives a less than 40% chance of further development. There is substantional shear at the mid and upper levels of the atmosphere over the central Atlantic, which combined with slightly cooler than normal sea surface temperatures makes this region hazardous to the health of tropical systems!
Monthly Climatological Summary for Taylor County : http://www.kymesonet.org/monthly_summaries.html?county=BNGL&year=2022&month=8