Good Friday, everyone. Our stormy setup is here and it looks to continue into the weekend and some of these storms will be strong or severe. This is being pushed by another blast of September temps coming from Sunday into next week.
Our Friday is starting out with rounds of storms working from west to east. These storms will be very noisy and may put down local wind damage. These storms will also be big time rain-makers for those folks getting under then.
As they work out of here by the afternoon, steamy sun shows up and that fires up additional thunderstorms and some of those may be strong to severe.
The Storm Prediction Center has the entire region highlighted in today’s Severe Weather Outlook…
Saturday is another steamy day with scattered storms early on and then the increasing potential for late day strong to severe storms dropping in along our cold front.
Here’s Saturday’s Severe Weather Outlook from the Storm Prediction Center…
In addition to the severe weather threat, torrential rainfall may cause some local high water issues.
As our low pressure winds up to our northeast, a northwest wind flow sets up behind this and brings showers and a few storms in here Sunday into Monday. This animation from the Euro goes from Saturday morning through Monday evening…
Sunday’s highs may not get out of the 70s and that’s a trend that may take us into the first half of next week. The models all agree on another big blast of below normal temps and you can see those on this animation from Sunday morning through Thursday morning…
Lows by Tuesday morning are deep into the 50s with the chance for some upper 40s to show up in the east…
Similar lows show up on Wednesday…
These below normal temps are the theme of August, so far. Look at the numbers for the first half of the month…
As a matter of fact, temps have been normal to below normal on average since July 1st…
This has been a really tame temperature summer and it looks to stay that way for the closing few weeks.
As usual, I have all your tracking toys to follow today’s strong to severe storms…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Have a great day and take care.
The multiple days of 90-plus weren’t an indication of tameness.
Rain fell and is falling in various spots of Fayette County . . . . but not here. Thinking of ways to attract those juicy clouds I see on Doppler. Roll the windows down, invite family over for a picnic, turn on the sprinkler, pull tools onto the driveway for a day-long project. Remaining hopeful.
Richmond has gotten good rains this morning, but so far no cooler push yet.
People… Am I crazy?
When I moved to Lexington… I didn’t feel like summers were that hot… I mean hot yes… but not excruciatingly hot… On rare occasions we would have a heat wave and hit record temps in the 100s… but MOST of the time, I always remember it struggling to get to 90 here during a typical summer.. Did I just dream that? I dunno. I feel like this summer was hotter than usual… but the stats say otherwise… Oh well.
This Summer has been hotter than most of late, despite what many say, albeit not historic like 2012. Only 2004 was where it failed to officially hit 90 in many areas. Typical Summer sees no struggle to hit 90.
Stats have been cherry picked.