Good Saturday, everyone. Our Labor Day Weekend is in full swing with rounds of showers and storms kicking in ahead of a slow-moving system. This setup will up the ante on the potential for heavy rain that may cause local flash flooding issues.
Showers and storms will be coming at us in waves through Labor Day, at least. These waves will be spinning around an upper level low to our west so that means we will be watching the southern and southwestern sky during this time.
With a lot of tropical moisture available, storms will have a lot of juice to work with. Some storms can easily drop 1″-3″ of rain in a short amount of time, leading to local flash flooding issues.
In a general sense, many areas should pick up at least 1″-3″ of rain with locally higher amounts through Labor Day. The models are spitting out some pretty good totals through Monday…
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Here are your radars to follow today’s increasing potential for showers and storms…
From there, we are likely to see the upper low continue to spit our additional rounds of showers and storms through much of next week and, perhaps, into next weekend…
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This will continue the threat for additional rounds of heavy rain as temps run normal to below normal for high temps. Overall, this is a very wet start to the fall.
Have a sensational Saturday and take care.
Looks and sounds like April and May rather than September. They, NWS has had this forecast before and it never pans out for my area of South Central Kentucky. Hopefully it will, as we could use the moisture.
The Tropics have a new named storm ; Tropical Storm Earl. May be starting to get active ?
The NHC is forecasting Earl to continue moving to the northwest for couple of days, turning north by Monday, and to the northeast by midweek. They’re predicting no intensification beyond tropical storm throughout this period. They are not tracking any other areas of interest other than Earl and Danille, over the next 5 days.
Aside from the 0.4″ of rain we had on Tuesday, it’s remained parched. There was some heavy activity to our south yesterday. Late in the afternoon I noticed a towering, well formed cumulonimbus cloud southeast of Bowling Green, and its top was about 40° above the horizon. I checked radar, and the cell was located halfway between Gallatin and Lebanon, Tennessee! I posted a photo of the storm on Chris’s Twitter feed.
Continued good news with the Tropics. Maybe we will escape without any major Hurricanes attacking the mainland of the US ?
Great photo Joe of the cumulonimbus !
The same type formation marched NE on the east side of Fayette County yesterday. Puffs of angry air but no rain here. However, this morning we sit on the front porch sipping coffee & tea while a lovely shower settles new seed into the turf, dissolves fertilizer granules, and gives our plantings the drink they’ve been needing. The delightful sound of rain filtering through tree canopies and water coursing through gutters and downspouts.
I wish I would have had that kind of luck with lawn seed. I always had to turn on the sprinklers to get good germination percentage. I never depended on Mother Nature to water my lawn and Nursery because most of the time she didn’t come through with the needed rain. Good luck with your lawn and plants.
It’s been a strange summer of 2 tales here in far western ky. First summer started wet and then got hot and dry then the grass got parch then we got too much rain here in early August. Every since we haven’t no moisture in a month and the grass is getting burnt again. It be interested what the farmers will say how there crops came out this fall.
It’s been a strange summer of 2 tales here in far western ky. First summer started wet and then got hot and dry then the grass got parch then we got too much rain here in early August. Every since we haven’t no moisture in a month and the grass is getting burnt again. It be interested what the farmers will say how there crops came out this fall.
As we are going through the last 3 weeks of summer it’s been a strange summer it started out hot and dry then around last week of July and first part of August we were gutted with too much rain the grass grew back so thick you had to mow twice a week to keep up with it. Now we haven’t had much rain at all and the grass is getting burnt again. It be interested what the farmers will be saying how there crops came out here in far western ky