Good Wednesday to one and all. We have a full-blown fall cold front rolling into the region and it’s bringing the potential for strong storms with it. This front is the first of two big fall fronts I’m tracking over the next week and change.
Winds are very gusty out there today and will top 30mph at times and that’s without storms. Temps spike deep into the 70s as we touch off a scattered shower or storm through the early part of the afternoon.
By late afternoon and evening, a few lines of strong storms will likely develop and race eastward across the state. This line looks to increase as it gets into central and eastern Kentucky with damaging winds a possibility.
The Storm Prediction Center has much of the area in the low-end risk for severe storms through tonight…
Some rainfall totals may exceed 1″ in a few spots, especially across the eastern half of the state.
The cold behind this system isn’t quite as impressive because of the next system rolls in a bit quicker for the weekend. Still, highs Thursday and Friday are way down compared to today with frosty cold temps for Friday morning.
How this next system works through here continues to be a work in progress, but the models all agree on a faster arrival with the threat for some showers and storms on Saturday into early Sunday. That would be followed by much colder air.
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Again, flakes may fly as close by as the high mountains in West Virginia.
I will have the latest on WKYT-TV starting at 4pm. As always, the blog is set for you to track today’s storms…
Current watches
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Have a wonderful Wednesday and take care.
Great to see some green on the radar. It’s been a longtime since.
I’ve got my fingers crossed that we all see some rain but especially for you Schroeder since it sounds like Maple has really been dry.
I’ve been living in Maple for fourteen years and have never seen it as dry as it is now. If we don’t receive rain today and tonight we still have another chance this weekend ?
A potent line of storms has entered far western Kentucky right now, but seems to be losing intensity. Hopefully it will hold together, and buck the pattern we’ve seen in recent years, where storms tend to peter out as they approach Warren County, and regenerate over central and eastern Kentucky. A big factor that has caused storms to lose cohesion is dry air at the surface. Yesterday at this time the relative humidity was an extremely dry 30%, and has climbed to 57% today, giving us a current dewpoint of 62°F. That stiff southwesterly flow is trying to push some moisture into the area, but the weeks without rain have dryed the soil to the extent that it’s acting like a desicant, drawing msome of the moisture out of the air!
Enough of this Chicken Little talk, so bring on the rain!
Joe, glad to see you back posting. No rain here as of yet just a bunch of unwanted wind. I’m hopeful we all may receive some rain later ? Same here, the rains build to our west / southwest and by the time the precipitation reaches my area it disappears from the radar.
Hope you have your computer problem solved and you are able to access this site from your new tablet.
Thanks Schroeder, it looks like the problem’s been resolved. The line of storms is just to our west and I just posted a photo on Twitter. It appears to be holding together, so fingers crossed!
That’s great Joe ! Hope we receive some rain here soon. A line just to our west looks like it may hold.
My weather station shows .70 in south east Lexington. I’ve still got my fingers crossed that we might get a bit more this evening.
We had 0.41 this evening. A good start, but we need a more soaking rain that last more than 12 hours,