Good Thursday to one and all. We have rounds of showers and thunderstorms rolling through the region today and Friday. This is ahead of another system arriving later in the weekend and that will unleash another frost threat into the first few days of May.

Our day starts dry with rain increasing from southwest to northeast this afternoon and evening as low pressure moves in. This brings rounds of showers and a few storms in here through tonight with more scattered stuff on Friday.

Rainfall amounts may top 1″ in several locations…

Here are your friendly neighborhood radars to follow along…

The system working in over the weekend has slowed down and that means just a scattered shower or storm will be around. Temps will stay in pretty good shape until the front passes late Sunday. Temps behind this should give us another frost threat or two over the first few mornings of May…

That’s being pushed by the behemoth of a trough taking up residence in the eastern half of the country. The models are now trying to bring another system dropping in behind that as we get into Kentucky Derby Weekend. You can see that on the EURO…

If that second system is real, it could pose some issues heading into Derby Weekend.

The same run of the EURO brings rain and chilly weather…

The GFS isn’t as chilly, but it has the initial rain system sweeping through here Thursday into early on Kentucky Oaks Day…

Let’s get the rain in and out of town before Oaks Day and Derby Day. Regardless, that’s a chilly signal for the big weekend. As a matter of fact, the ENSEMBLES have flipped back toward keeping the chill going into the second week of the month…

Have a terrific Thursday and take care.