A Great End To August

Good Thursday, everyone. We have another awesome weather day taking shape across Kentucky and it feels a lot like early fall. This comes as we wrap up the month of August and get set for Labor Day weekend. That’s when temps come up, but nothing out of the ordinary.

Let’s begin things with the latest on Idalia. This is a tropical storm that’s working along the South Carolina coast today. This will eventually get pulled to the east and into the Atlantic where it will likely meander around for the next week or longer. Here are your tracking toys for this storm…

Temps out there this morning start in the 50-55 degree range for many. A few spots may hit the upper 40s. By the afternoon, highs reach the middle and upper 70s with a gorgeous blue sky and a few high clouds.

Friday starts with similar temps and ends with temps reaching 80-85 degrees in many areas. That comes with low humidity and a few clouds coming into the picture. Those clouds may wind up being a little more prominent over the Labor Day weekend as an upper level low spins across the south. This may try to drift farther north into the region this weekend and early next week. I’m almost to the point of adding a shower chance to the forecast as the models are getting closer with the showers coming from the south and west…

Speaking of the Canadian, the model is bringing a weak trough in here later next week and, at the same time, has the remnant system of Idelia drifting toward the northeastern states…

Here’s the look at the jet stream level…

The European Model has a similar overall look during the same time…

The GFS is going in that direction as well…

Have a great final day of August and take care.