Good Friday, folks. Hurricane Ian is making a second landfall today in South Carolina and will bring rain to parts of the region for the weekend. The potential for heavy rain and local high water issues is there for eastern Kentucky.
Let’s start with what Ian is doing now and roll forward. As mentioned Ian is a hurricane again and is targeting the Charleston, South Carolina area for another landfall today.
This updating map from the National Hurricane Center shows the specifics of the storm and the latest official track…
Make good use of our exclusive interactive radar to track Hurricane Ian. This even has live streams from storm chasers in the path of this storm…
Here’s a breakdown of how Ian can impact our weather:
- The main impact is across the eastern half of the state tonight through Sunday.
- It’s possible to get the center of circulation from this historic former hurricane to pass over far eastern Kentucky.
- Clouds increase today from southeast to northwest, but skies stay dry.
- Showers roll into southeastern Kentucky overnight and early Saturday and this spreads toward the west and northwest.
- The rain shield can only get so far west and will have a very sharp cutoff with it. That looks to setup somewhere between I-75 and I-65.
- Heavy rainfall of 1″-3″ will be likely in the east and that may be enough for local flash flood issues to develop, especially on Saturday.
- The rain looks to end fairly quickly from west to east on Sunday.
- Winds will be rather gusty with some 30mph numbers possible.
- Where there’s rain, highs may not get out of the 50s. Western Kentucky will see temps reaching 70-75 with sun.
Looking down the road, next week looks really nice. Temps are seasonable through the middle of the week with another big blast of fall chill due in late next week into the following weekend…
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That looks like a widespread frost, folks.
Make it a great day and take care.
It’s crazy how the tropics can sort of put our weather on HOLD….aside from remnants which may or may not hit us….it causes our weather to basically be put on hold…Maybe that’s why this is the driest time of year here (usually)
Mark, you have a better chance of receiving some rain tomorrow. Only a 20% chance here in Maple. We need that Subtropical jet ( currently missing ) to interact with these Pacific Fronts to get any beneficial rains here in Western and Central Kentucky.
The NWS has put some counties back into a slight drought status.
Mainly south of Louisville & west of I-65.
We are in ‘ abnormally dry ‘ status here in Maple but I think that it won’t last all the way through October ?
My Sister and her Husband arrived Home in South Venice, Florida last evening finding their Home intact with just a few Roof shingles gone and Tree limbs down everywhere. The Town of Venice however is a complete Mess with Trees of all sizes down and a lot of Structural Damage. Lots of Flooding throughout !!!
That Ridge to our West is keeping the Remnants of Ian from moving West and bringing the much needed Rains to Western and Central Kentucky. These Fronts that are coming from the Pacific are ‘ Moisture Starved ‘ and the only Precipitation may be in the form of Frost next week ?
La Nina is living up to Her weather type but instead bringing the Ohio Valley Mild, Wet conditions it is more ‘Fall Like ‘ with Dry Mostly Sunny, Pleasant days and Cool to Cold mornings. ( radiational cooling )
I expect a ‘ Burn Ban ‘ will be issued sometime next week by the NWS / NOAA. In the meantime please use common sense and NOT BURN any debris !!!
I think Taylor county is under the NWS drought advisory.
Correct.
Latest discussion on Ian :
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT4+shtml/300847.shtml?
The coloring of the 850mb streamlines & temp anomoly Euro animation is AMAZING! What a great graphic!