Good Saturday and welcome to the first weekend of “Summer”. It is certainly going to feel the part over the next few days into early next week. Very warm temps, high humidity levels and scattered showers and thunderstorms will be the rule.
The medium range models continue to point toward a big change in our weather by next weekend and I will get into that in a moment.
Let’s review what we already know about the next few days. It’s warm, it’s humid and we have afternoon and evening storms that will develop. Any storm that goes up will put down heavy rain and may be on the strong side.
Ok… that was easy. 🙂
The change moving our way by the end of the week continues to look fairly dramatic for this time of year.The pattern undergoes significant amplification and that allows a strong cold front to sweep in here by Friday.
That could set off some big time thunderstorms just in time for NASCAR to roll into the Kentucky Speedway…
The air moving in behind that front may keep us in the 70s for a few days as we close out the month of June. What about as we head into July 4th week? The GFS has been showing an interesting solution for the past few runs…
Have a great Saturday and take care.
A tropical system…
Ominus.
Ominous. Geez.
Lol
70’s to close out June? I’m all on board. So far, Lexington is 0.8 degrees above normal for the month of June. SDF is 0.2, Frankfort 0.1, Bowling Green 0.7. I think Chris might be onto something about the official temp at Lexington.
We are in no stretch close to last May and June. Those were both hot compared to this year. I wonder if the readings used here are part of the “warming” data? 😉 🙂
More like a “cooling” trend, if you ask me, which you didn’t. 😉 But if you recall, a couple of decades ago, the scream was all about the next ice age. Making a comeback? Hmmm…..:D
Would be nice to have some hot weather for a few days in a row without having to deal with the threat storms. Our weather is turning into ore like Florida, with the afternoon pop ups. That is not so bad, but it seems like when we get these systems inhere, they tend to just hang around. I love cooler weather, and I love the fall. but I don’t want it on the Fourth of July weekend. Weather cycle is still acting crazy, at least in my view.
thanks, Chris, for keeping us updated. Guess I will keep the raincoat handy for work. Looks like I am going to need it. Have a GREAT Saturday, everyone.
Getting dry in Frankfort, we very rarely get a pop up storm in these patterns, so those of you getting rain count your blessings!
i live in huntington, wva and we are coming up on the 1 year anniversary of the derecho event that unfolded on the 29th of june and left countless people with out power for days and weeks and for some it was a month…to make matters worse was this storm was followed by a string of 95 to 105 degree weather and without air conditioning or any where to buy cold drinks or ice or gas or to just get money out of the bank……needless to say it left indiana, ohio, parts of kentucky, wva, maryland, pennsylvania, washington d.c., virginia……..i may be leaving a few states out but anyway this storm affected all of the above mentioned states in some form or fashion………to sum it all up, i would take the cooling trend this year over hot weather even if thunderstorms do come with it…….point is…….any one that was affected by this dangerous storm, now dubbed as a land hurricane, does not want a repeat…..thank you for your time and let us pray that this disaster never happens again,
I’m tracking highs at the reporting stations just to see how much the urban heat island actually skews temps.
Here are today’s official highs from Kentucky reporting stations.
Jackson: 85
London: 85
Lexington: 87
Frankfort: 87
Cincy Airport (CVG): 88
Bowling Green: 88
Louisville Bowman: 88
Paducah: 89
Louisville Official (SDF): 90
There is no reason SDF should be the hottest reporting station in the state other than a heat island effect.