Good Sunday, folks. It’s the last day of April and the weather is taking a quick downhill turn. This will make the start of May feel more like the start of March with cold winds and a few showers in the coming days.
Let’s start with today and the changes that are blowing through. Colder air is pouring in with a few showers on the move. Winds will be rather gusty with temps warmer in the far east than everywhere else. Highs in the east may hit the 60s with 50s showing up for most of the rest of the state.
Here are your radars to track today’s showers…
This is part of this monster upper low spinning into the eastern half of the country. Folks, this has been talked about here on KWC for more than a week now so it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. 😏😏
With this think spinning, a monster low develops and rolls up the eastern slopes of the Appalachians. At the same time, that upper low throws rounds of showers into central and eastern Kentucky over the next few days. With a lot of cold air around, you are also seeing a lot of rare early May snows flying…
That run of the GFS is spitting out snowflakes for quite a bit of real estate in the eastern half of the country. This run even clips Pike County in far eastern Kentucky…
To see something like that even being forecast in early May is pretty amazing.
Back here in the Bluegrass State, high temps to start the week are brutal and may not reach 50 in parts of central and eastern Kentucky Monday and Tuesday…
With early week clouds and showers, the frost threat may get pushed back until Wednesday morning. Lows can actually drop below freezing…
Could all this colder than normal air help us out by keeping the late week system to our west and south? The latest trend on the models is to do just that…
That would be great news for Thurby and Oaks Day on Friday, but I’ll need to see a few more runs before I commit to that.
Enjoy your Sunday and take care.
Our weather has been an upside down, inside out affair during the season formerly known as Spring, (which should be referred to going forward as either late Winter or early Summer, depending on the current observed conditions). Our “new normal” emphasizes weather extremes, courtesy of our warming atmosphere, and you only need to look at the news to see that the extremes are apparent planet-wide. There are many factors contributing to our changing climate, from an uptick in volcanic eruptions, to a measurable increase in solar output, the latter attributable to the approaching peak of the current 12 year solar cycle in mid-2024. The bottom line is that the unpredictable nature of our weather will continue unabated for the foreseeable future.
I’m still not really impressed with this brief cool spell.
well im obviously not happy with the cold. my soul craves warm sunshine year round. this does bring back a memory of my grandfather, born in 1915. told me that when he was a young boy living on the pike county ky – mingo county wv state line he seen it snow in mid may. i cant recall ever seeing it snow that late in the year. i do however remember a mid to late april snowstorm that dumped about 2 ft of snow on us here in pike county. i think it was 84 or 87 but not sure. JoeD you are quite correct. our changing climate is gonna throw us some wild weather for the foreseeable future.
I just went outside that wind is cold. Joe you are right our weather as been upside down. Seems like by Memorial Day we are getting hot weather but who knows?