Good Saturday and welcome to the weekend. It’s an active day taking shape across central and eastern Kentucky as a strong system dives in from the northwest. This spawns a few strong to severe storms before it unleashes another blast of September for the week ahead.
Today is a super muggy day with the chance for some scattered storms early. By the afternoon, we will need to be on guard for storms going up along and north of Interstate 64. These storms would then strengthen as they drop toward the south and southeast.
This is the area with the greatest risk for severe storms today and that’s reflected in the Severe Weather Outlook from the Storm Prediction Center…
This type of a setup brings about a small threat for a tornado spin up. Here’s the area to watch for that…
Damaging winds and large hail are the more likely players with any storm that goes severe. Those threats are outlined from the Storm Prediction Center…
A northwest wind flow sets up on Sunday as low pressure wraps up to our northeast. This isn’t something you see very often in the heart of August, but this isn’t a very August-like month.
With this northwest flow, showers and some rumbles of thunder will be possible Sunday into Sunday evening. This animation goes from Sunday morning through Monday morning…
Temps on Sunday generally range from the mid 70s to low 80s depending on where you are.
Many areas may not get out of the upper 70s Monday as a few leftover showers roll across eastern Kentucky. Upper 70s to low 80s with bone dry humidity will be noted Tuesday into Wednesday.
That’s also when lows may very well drop into the upper 40s and low 50s for some parts of the state…
Lows will reach the 50s once again on Thursday as pleasant temps remain. Those look to hang through the end of the week before we slowly warm things up next weekend into the following week.
Back to today. Here are your storm tracking tools to help you follow today’s severe weather threat…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Have a great Saturday and take care.
A big maple around the corner is already turning red. My stands of Skyline locusts and of river birch are competing to see who can drop the most leaves, while our ancient dogwood’s leaves are a pale yellowish-green. The sound of a lawn mower at 6:15 this morning was unusual because cutting lawns in our neighborhood has become so random and occasional. Our PWS says 70 degrees with a dew point of 70 degrees and 99% humidity. Guess I’m headed for hot and sweaty this morning.
“Blast” of September indeed.