Good evening, folks. We continue to track a much colder pattern taking control of the region to wrap up the weekend. This chill takes us into the start of a milder week, but more in the way of cold air is on the way next weekend.
Scattered showers and storms are working out of eastern Kentucky this evening…
The cold winds have fully engulfed the state and this continues into Monday. Highs will be in the 40s in the north and northeast with clouds and a shower threat. Farther west and south, some sun will boost temps toward the low and middle 60s.
Frost is a good bet Monday night with temps reaching the low and middle 30s for many, especially central and eastern Kentucky…
The readings bounce back up into the 60s for Tuesday and then take off from there with 80 possible Wednesday and Thursday. That’s ahead of a late week/weekend system that brings the threat for strong storms ahead of it and unleashes even colder air behind it…
Shew!
Enjoy the rest of the day and take care.
Replying to the question that MarkLex left for me this morning:
Mark, the fact that whichever phase we are in is tied directly to temperature anomalies makes it difficult to predict. We can look at past history to see how long a particular El Niño, La Niña, or neutral phase persisted, (they seem to average from 1 to 3 years). However, increasing surface temperatures due to climate change are invalidating some of algorithms that are used to predict sea surface temperature anomalies. A little over a year ago, some climatologists who were saying that La Niña could stick around for a 4th year, are now predicting a strong Fall/Winter 2023/24 El Niño!