Good Thursday, everyone. Rounds of showers and thunderstorms will continue to rule the weather across the bluegrass state over the next few days. That’s the focus of the short term weather. The longer term is dominated by a huge blast of cold air swinging in for late weekend into early next week. Got frost?
To say the weather around here has been much wetter than normal would be an understatement. Take a look at how much above normal we are over the past 30 days…
That’s a heck of a lot of rain and the positive numbers also show up on the year to date map…
That’s a total reversal of how things were looking one year ago at this time across our part of the world… especially across the west.
Additional rounds of showers and storms will go up this afternoon and evening. Locally heavy rain and a ton of lightning will be possible.
A cold front enters the picture on Friday with a little more widespread shower and storm action. We may also run the risk of some strong or severe storms.
The next front that arrives on Saturday will touch off some isolated stuff, but it’s the cold air coming in behind it that steals the show. Temps for Mother’s Day into Monday will have a hard time getting out of the 50s. Monday morning may start with record cold and frost across the region.
The good news is the cold will be short lived and temps will take off by the middle of next week. Here’s the European Model…
Have a terrific Thursday and take care.
After this cold shot, could we be looking at one last salvo before it stays consistently warmer? Loving this rain, though.
Thanks Chris!
While I prefer the dry sun and warmth, at least there is no brush fire dangers or pending water restrictions like in past years.
This sure has been a spring with little severe wx. The current forecast is only for a slight chance for severe stuff today, mainly along the river from Cincinnati to Louisville to Paducah. Low odds for tornadoes, somewhat higher chances for damaging winds and hail.
Past climatology shows Kentucky and Tennessee have had no F4/EF4 tornadoes from the end of May through Nov. Also no F3/EF3 twisters from roughly mid-June until Oct. So if we can hold out a few more weeks, we could then breath a tad bit easier. Nevertheless, a summer EF1 can still totally destroy mobile homes, and the summer months can give us t-storms with destructive winds like the infamous “derecho” of last June 29th.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2012_North_American_derecho
Have a great day everyone.
The cold will still linger till the end of May. CB has mentioned it a few times but are in a blocking pattern. This article explains how another MAJOR blocking pattern is going to form late next week again bringing record cold possible AFTER the warm up that we’re gonna get next week.
http://fox41blogs.typepad.com/wdrb_weather/2013/05/frost-record-cold-in-your-future-when-will-this-end-let-me-dive-into-this-question.html#comments
At this point below normal temps are in the 60s, not bad in my book, I’ll take 60s over upper 80s any day, windows open and cheap utility bills sounds good, keep this pattern going all summer sounds great!