Good Friday to one and all. We’ve made it to the end of the week and rolling into the final weekend of August. Wait… What? Yep, it’s the last weekend of the month and we are tracking a weak cold front into the state today. This brings a few showers and storms ahead of a bigger system early next week.
Before I start this, let me share a tweet I sent Thursday…
It's another day of fairly pleasant temps with low 80s in the east and upper 80s in the west. When did these numbers qualify as being called "hot" in August? Check out the current temps from the Kentucky Mesonet. #kywx pic.twitter.com/u0uPWojy75
— Chris Bailey (@Kentuckyweather) August 25, 2022
For context, I was scrolling Twitter and came across several weather tweets calling today “hot” or saying “heat builds in today”. Mid and upper 80s are normal right now and many areas didn’t even get there.
Today’s showers and storms are rather scattered in nature, but those will be floating around the region. One or two may interrupt a high school football game before dying off this evening.
Here are your friendly Friday radars to follow along…
The weekend looks seasonable with temps in the mid and upper 80s for many. A 90 may show up in the west and there’s just a small threat for a shower or storm to pop.
The setup for next week features a trough digging into the Great Lakes and northeast and that may send a slow-moving boundary toward the region. This thing has a chance to really slow down and bring rounds of showers and storms to us next week and, perhaps, into the start of the Labor Day Weekend.
The GFS is actually picking up on the potential…
This is something the Canadian has been on for a few days now…
The EURO goes back and forth between a stalled boundary and a front just blasting quickly through here. The latest run is of the progressive nature…
Here’s hoping the EURO is correct on that, but I suspect the tropics may have something to say as I do think something sneaks through the Caribbean and into the Gulf of Mexico next week. Here’s what the NHC is currently tracking…
Make it a great day and take care.
July and August have been terrible for a lot of countries…I’ve seen video on youtube of different cities across the world… each day it’s like a different city that gets massive flooding….Let’s see.. Saudi Arabia….Austria… Italy…Istanbul Turkey…(the latest one I saw so it’s fresh in my memory)…then there was Dallas….St Louis…Eastern KY… Mississippi a couple of days ago… and more cities in other countries that I can’t think of ATM.
No complaints here, as the month of August has been fairly ‘ typical ‘ but, there is some uncomfortable weather forecast early next week ? Not a surprise.
The Tropics could get active soon ? Watching the one disturbance heading for the Caribbean Sea for further development. Could get into the Gulf of Mexico and may reach Hurricane status but, lets hope not.
This Morning, the NWS listed a number of devastating and deadly Hurricanes that occurred on the last week of August and early September. I hope the Quiet Seas prevail, and the Atlantic and Caribbean Surface Sea Temperatures continue to cool.
From the NWS a list of named Hurricanes that occurred in various past years in the finale week of August and early September. Listed under ” Tropical Tidbits ”
https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=LMK&issuedby=LMK&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1
Some good info on hurricanes, Schroeder! I was checking the steering winds and overall conditions in the Atlantic, and it appears that shear remains high the African coast to the mid Atlantic, along with current sea surface temperatures ranging slightly on the down side. So I’m thinking that chances for tropical system development are much greater in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, where water temperatures and shear rates are more or less ideal. Once those shear conditions off of the African coast subside, we should see a strong uptick in activities, especially since the mid-ocean steering currents remain strong in an East to West direction.
Hurricane development especially in the Gulf of Mexico, as the Gulf is much more shallow which allows the waters to become warmer, than say some deeper waters in the Atlantic and Caribbean Sea.
I think so too Joe, that the Tropical Storm Season has the potential to become more active and maybe last till the end of the season. I’m hoping it stays calm, as we don’t need another natural disaster to deal with.
With a moderate La Nina still in place in the Tropical Pacific, this unfortunately only enhances Tropical Storm development in the warmer waters off the Coast of Africa but, more concerned for the Gulf of Mexico’s Coastline.
The only complaint I have is that I have been forced indoors due to the high allergy content in the air.
I went for a walk Wednesday night and after I return from my exercise almost immediately my nose and throat began to become irritated.
I do feel better today after a long slumber.
Will make attempt to go outside today with a cumbersome mask over my nose and mouth.
I too use to suffer from ragweed allergies until I reached old age.
Just a comment on “hot.” When my wife asks, “What’s it like outside?” she does not expect me to respond with “Oh, seasonal, Honey.” She’s looking for something more along the lines of Cold, Cool, Pleasant, Warm, Hot. So, when a weather person says “It’ll be hot” or “Heat is building in” – that is useful information to those who are not professional meteorologists.