Good Friday, everyone. I want to send a big shout out to everyone I met last night at the London Kroger. It was good to put some faces on the names of folks who have been with the blog over the long haul. I had fun teaming up with the good folks from the National Weather Service in Jackson to program NOAA weather radios. We are trying to do some more of these events in the coming weeks.
The weather part of our program has been dominated by cold temps. Thermometers are running close to 10 degrees below normal for the first week of March and we’ve had snow flying on 8 of the past 9 days. That’s a heck of a stretch of winter weather around here.
Now, we are breaking out of the uglies with a case of the pretties for the weekend. Temps today will hit the mid 40s in the north and low 50s in the far south and west with more in the way of sunshine. Saturday will be the best day with highs in the low 60s with plenty of sunshine.
Sunday will be mild with the 60s returning. The threat for some afternoon showers will be with us as a cold front heads in here for early next week. That will likely bring us another shot of below normal temps as we roll into the middle and end of the week.
Is this a sign of the spring ahead of us? The latest run from the CFS seasonal model has a rather normal look to it…
That look of normal air around here is likely to be a rather stormy one as it shows a heat ridge camped out across the lower plains during this time. That’s a pattern that can send plenty of thunderstorm clusters rolling across the bluegrass state as we head through this period. Ironically, that forecast pattern matches up with some of the past years that I’ve been looking at for the spring and summer ahead of us.
If those are to be believed… there will be no shortage of severe weather and heavy rain producing thunderstorms this spring and early summer.
Have a wonderful Friday and take care.
Don’t like the sound of that please no storms…..
Marsha nobody can promise you that, sorry. 🙁
I know nobody wants to see a repeat of 3/2/12, but that is an extremely rare thing not likely to be repeated anytime soon if ever. Try not to be so fearful.
Jeff I’m trying its hard when lives where lost in our small town and the destruction is something I see everyday but with time maybe the fear I still have will go away….
This is the first time CB has put up a blog focused on something other than winter since September. Since October yes been talking about the upcoming winter and he’s still been. This is the first time he hasn’t used winter in our forecast. I’m glad. Do yall have spring fever, cuz I sure do! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Thanks for keeping us updated it is greatly appreciated. Have a great weekend
Thanks, Chris! Looking forward to seeing some sunshine. The sunrise this morning was beautiful! And for the first time in a while, I didn’t have to wear my heaviest coat today. Nice.. 😉 Going to enjoy the weekend, Wish I could have made it to London yesterday, Chris Ah well, maybe one of the Krogers in Somerset will have you down and we can come and meet you then. Have a GREAT Friday, everyone. And, thanjks again Chris, for all you do.
NWS and Accuweather have backed off the prolonged cold spell that was mentioned by CB last week. They too, had temps being in the 40’s some days in the next two weeks, but now everything mid 50’s and above. Hopefully analog years are wrong and we won’t be flooded out this spring. Similar past winters didn’t match up with what we had this year, so hopefully we get some dry weather this spring.
Chris, My sister and I loved meeting you at Kroger yesterday! Thanks for all you do… You are very much appreciated and quite the celebrity in our neck of the woods! Lol. Thanks to the guys at Jackson too!
Well, after that meh of a winter, we still have the Kitty Cats playing meh. Two meh’s don’t make a right. Cal had better offer that last spot to Dominique, or we will see another Kentucky great come back to haunt us. ENOUGH with all one and done attitudes! Some of these kids right now seem to have that attitude, but not the results.
We need IMO at least a 40% mix of players that will stay at least three years and have game.
to be honest totally tired of those three letters, but I TOTALLY agree about giving the scholarship to HAWKINS!!!! I think he can be a smaller version of MILLER!
It is still driving me crazy hearing people talk about some of the guys going to nba this year,,,,no way! their skill isn’t nba material yet!
Well, winter is over, but again like we all know it never started
I agree on the Miller comparison. He has already schooled the twins that are coming to UK. He scored 29 points against them in a game earlier in the season.
The young man is also a leader, which is what the team needs. Cal needs to invest in players rather than the “check into cash”, short-term strategy.
Indeed !