Good Friday, everyone. A super-stormy week is wrapping up across Kentucky with one more day of strong to severe storms. From here, we see a pattern likely to turn more typical of early August, complete with a tropical system around Florida.
Before we look ahead, let’s take a quick look back at the month of July’s temps. This was a really tame temperature month for Kentucky and surrounding areas with temps near normal and even below normal across the western part of the state…
Not too shabby for summertime in Kentucky!
Ok, let’s get back to the weather out there today. We have a cold front moving in from the northwest and it’s producing more in the way of showers and thunderstorms. The storms that go up today may be more scattered when compared to the big complexes of the past several days, but some of those storms may be strong or severe.
The Storm Prediction Center has the greatest risk of severe storms across the eastern half of the state…
Areas of wind damage will be the main threat.
Any storm that’s out there may also feature enough rain to cause local high water issues.
An upper level system spins through here tonight and into Saturday and that can still spawn a few showers and storms, mainly in the east…
Temps steam up again by Sunday as skies finally dry out. Those steamy temps continue into the first half of next week with what happens after that a bit of a question mark. That’s because of a developing tropical system expected to develop this weekend in the eastern Gulf of Mexico…
That should become a named storm as it hugs the Gulf Coast of Florida. That may cross Florida then hang around the southeastern seaboard into early next week. Here are the spaghetti plots showing the various hurricane models…
Here are the GFS Ensembles…
At the same time this system tries to ride the east coast, a big blast of much cooler than normal temps looks to take hold of much of the country for the second half of next week…
Here are your Friday storm tracking tools…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Have a great day and take care.
July had plenty of days well into the 90s. Not really tame at all.
I agree Jeff. We had many days above 90 degrees here in Maple, and on the last day of July, we finally receive a good soaking rain.
Thanks Chris. Another great rain late yesterday afternoon. My rain gauge is getting full. Good timing as we are approaching the three driest months ( A S O. )
I’ll be watching the tropics, as my Sister and Brother in Law and my Niece live on the Gulf side of Florida. I’m hoping this will just be a Tropical Storm ( Debby. )
Have a great and safe day everyone !
Hope they just get a tropical storm. I was in a cat 1 hurricane and that was enough for me.
I had a zoom meeting last evening with my Sister in Florida and they have a plan to leave and head north to arround Atlanta to be safe. If Debby decides to become a Hurricane, and my Brother in Law said that we will never agin go through another.
Here in the Chicago Metro Area, it was also rather tame temperature-wise for the month of July, as the average daily temp for the month at O’Hare Airport was 75.0 degrees, which actually averaged 0.4 degrees below normal. There were only four days of 90+ temps, compared to eight days in June.
This is the first time in over a year that O’Hare Airport finished with a below-average temp for an entire calendar month.
Last night’s Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio between the Bears and Texans was cancelled with 3:31 remaining in the third quarter because of lightning and heavy rain.
Mike, sounds like your area of the country had a normal Summer. I just hope we have Fall like weather and a cold Winter with more Snow than last year.
My Dad and I followed the Green Bay Packers, when I was growing up in Indiana.