Good Monday, folks. We are coming off a cold early October weekend with temps visiting the 20s for the first time this season. As we look into the week ahead, we find a strong fall storm system ready to bring changes to our part of the world.
As expected, the growing season came to a crashing halt this weekend…
Bye bye growing season! Temps were deep into the 20s in many areas this morning.
Check out the Top 10 coldest low temps from the Kentucky Mesonet. #kywx pic.twitter.com/rxavh8DUoY
— Chris Bailey (@Kentuckyweather) October 9, 2022
As a matter of fact, it was a record tying morning in Lexington…
Even with a thermometer that skews 2-3 degrees too warm, Lexington officially tied the record low for the day at 31 degrees first set back in 2000. #kywx
— Chris Bailey (@Kentuckyweather) October 9, 2022
There’s that year I’ve been throwing around… 2000. Not only did we tie the record, but this is the coldest we’ve been this early in fall since… 2000. Regular readers know 2000 is an analog year for me for the fall and winter, so it’s good to see it off and running on a winning note.
Temps won’t be as cold this morning with lots of frosty 30s showing up to start the new week. This afternoon looks amazing once again with highs ranging from the upper 60s to middle 70s from east to west across the state.
Those numbers come up for Tuesday as we enjoy another amazing fall day here in Kentucky.
Changes begin to show up Wednesday as our strong fall storm system cranks across the plains and works into the Mississippi Valley. Mild temps will be joined by an increase in clouds and a gusty southwest wind as this system gets closer to us. A few late day showers and storms may even show up in the west.
Those showers and storms then overspread the region Wednesday night and Thursday as our fall cold front surges in here. Winds will be very gusty as temps crash quickly from west to east…
GFS
Winds may gust to 35-40mph along and behind that front and there’s even the chance for a few strong storms.
Watch how fast the above normal temps get replaced by the below normal numbers behind it…
Another shot of cold air then sweeps in here by the end of weekend into early next week. This one may be even colder…
That’s also likely to become a big wind maker around here and may bring flakes as close by as the high mountains in West Virginia.
Have a great start to the week and take care.
Another Frosty morning here in Maple with the current temperature of 32 degrees. Very dry conditions are still in place and very little chances for rain in my local forecast, unfortunately. I don’t recall the Autumn weather back in the year 2000, but I remember the Autumn of 1976 which resembles this October’s weather perfectly. The cold fronts currently are of the Polar region and are moving farther south at a regular basis. Hoping we won’t receive those gusty winds Thursday ? The predicted winds will just add to the wildfire danger potential.
I recall one Columbus Day where we had bands of Snow Showers, but that event occurred in South Central Indiana. Must have been in a year back in the 1950’s when Columbus Day was always observed on the 12th of October. It was not always a Monday holiday.
Not that unusual for early Snows in the mountains of West Virginia. They receive tons of Snow almost every Winter.
I hope the GFS pans out Wed.&Thur..
My local forecast is not bullish about any rainfall on those days.
My local forecast is only calling 0.01 inches of rain / showers on Thursday. Last October we were having plenty of rain and it was unseasonably warm. Typical La Nina pattern last year. Currently, La Nina’s effects seem to be absent. If it continues we may have that Cold Winter the Old Farmers Almanac predicted ? I had the heat on for the first time this morning. If it is a Cold Winter my heating bills will be through the roof.
I feel like I remember most of our frost/freezes starting the last week of October….never early Oct like now…I could be remembering it wrong…. Speaking of 2000….There was quite a snow drought here after 1998 (big snows)…Each year on the blog we would complain that we hadn’t had a big snow since 1998….all through the 2000s it was terrible….We would always get plenty of 1-3 inch and and most 5 inch snows here and there…that all ended in the 2010’s when we got several big snows. The reason I bring that up is I don’t remember 2000 being snowy….I think I remember it being cold and walking through snow from work to my car but it was never deep snows…I’m thinking in 2000 we had several small snows that just added up