Good Saturday, everyone. The first full weekend of September is feeling the part of a mid-October weekend here in Kentucky. Temps are well below normal and may make a run at record lows tonight and early Sunday.
Our fall cold front is exiting southeastern Kentucky very early this morning, taking any leftover showers or storms with it. Here are your Kentucky Weather radars to say goodbye to the drops…
Skies become mostly sunny today on a brisk north to northwest wind flow that keeps highs in the upper 60s to low 70s for most. Humidity levels will also be very low and this will combine with clearing overnight skies to produce record or near record lows across Kentucky.
Low and mid 40s are likely with the outside chance for the coldest valleys to dip into the upper 30s. The models are pretty chilly looking…
If we can get one of the Kentucky Mesonet thermometers to hit 40 or below, this would be, by my count, the earliest such readings on record around here.
The rest of Sunday looks awesome with temps in the upper 60s to low 70s across the eastern half of the state with low and mid 70s west. This nice stuff carries over into Monday as temps rebound some with a greater rebound for the middle of the week.
What happens from here will be determined by something trying to develop down in the Gulf of Mexico. That’s a system the National Hurricane Center is giving a decent chance to develop…
Some of the recent model runs have been trying to take whatever develops down there and bring it northward toward us by the end of the week.
The AI version of the EURO has been consistently showing this…
Many of the operational models are now coming around to something similar…
CANADIAN
This has the potential to bring healthy rains into our region later in the week, but there’s nothing with tropical systems that are slam dunks.
Looking longer range, the trend on the Ensembles is to bring another big dip in the jet stream late in week two. The Control Run of the Euro Ensembles shows this well…
Have a sensational Saturday and take care.
Still one more push of heat left. 🙂
Yep until Sept is over the heat can return… really hot… let’s hope not… I hope that tropical system future cast verifies…
We do need rain.
Thanks Chris. Agin we miss the rains yesterday evening. No surprise to me. This had been the trend this Summer. The tropical system in the western Gulf has a 40 % chance of becoming a complete tropical storm. Where it goes from there is any ones guess. It all rides on the strength of the high pressure that will be over Kentucky later in the week.
We have been receiving more frequent bouts of cooler air that only hangs around for a few days. This scenario should end as we enter mid October when the temperatures stay cooler longer. Bound to be an opposite reaction to this awful dry weather. I just hope it’s not decadal.
I can’t enjoy the pleasant early Fall weather with the dangerously dry conditions in our forest. As Joe said when the leaves fall in late October, the wild fire potential will increase. Sorry for the negativity this morning, but that’s just the way I see it.
Have a safe weekend everyone !