Good Friday, folks. We have a busy weather day across the Bluegrass state and surrounding states. Rounds of strong to severe storms may cause issues and put down enough rain to cause high water issues.
Let’s start with a breakdown of this system:
- Rounds of showers and storms will be rumbling across the region as a cold front stalls on top of us.
- The greatest threat for storms is across the northern half of the state and into the west.
- Areas of the southeast will see more scattered stuff with temps back into the 70s.
- Storms will be moving over some of the same areas one right after another. That’s where some flooding issues develop.
- Some of these storms may also be strong to severe.
- Low pressure rolls into the Ohio Valley tonight and will have a line of strong to severe storms ahead of it.
- This line develops in western Kentucky and rolls across the rest of the state this evening into the wee hours of Saturday morning.
- Damaging winds will be possible with this line. There’s also the threat for a tornado or two in the west.
- As this line works out of eastern Kentucky early Saturday, high winds may briefly develop behind it. Gusts of 50mph with some sun will be possible Saturday morning.
- The rest of Saturday looks pretty decent with just a scattered shower or storm and mild temps.
The Storm Prediction Center has much of the state in an increased risk for severe storms today…
Sunday and Monday look windy and fairly mild as we get set for another front to move in on Tuesday. This only has a small threat for a shower or storm with it, but it will unleash some colder than normal temps for the middle of next week.
Watch how we go from well below normal temps to much above by the end of the week…
That warm up is ahead of what looks to be a potent plains storm system that could bring another severe risk to our region to end March and kick off April…
I will have another update later today so check back. Until then, here are your severe weather tracking tools…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Have a great Friday and take care.
Thanks Chris. Rains are riding the good ole Southeast Ridge again this morning. Maybe the Ridge will weaken the severe weather later today ?
I think that the positioning of the low will overpower the ridge’s influence, and with South Central Kentucky in the warm sector, the severe threat will likely materialize. The good news is that there is minimal shear, so the tornado threat will be minimal, but straight line winds will dominate. This could result in another round of power issues, as the winds + saturated ground could make trees weakened by the previous storm susceptible.
Seems like this severe weather threat happens every Friday.
Just had a squall roll through the area. My PWS near Bowling Green recorded a 50mph wind gust, and picked up 0.33″ of rain in about 15 minutes.
We had one clap of thunder and 0.43 inches of rain in the past 48 hours. I would expect the dry slot to show up later this afternoon and ramp up our chances for severe weather tonight and tomorrow morning. Hope this is not going to be a power knocker outer ?
Winter Weather Advisories are in effect for the far N and NW Suburbs of Chicago for later tonight into Saturday morning because of heavy, wet snow that could accumulate 3-5 inches.
Most of the Chicago area is going to receive a cold, heavy rain from tonight through Saturday morning, mixing with snow later that may leave slushy accumulations on gra-s-sy areas.
We haven’t had any 60-degree days yet this month, which is very unusual for so late into March.
Snow is completely off the table here in Kentucky. We will have to wait until next season to see what the Ohio Valley will receive in the way of Winter weather. Our Spring so far is nothing to write home about.