Good Wednesday, weather peeps. We have a few more days of heat and humidity and then the bottom falls out of your back porch thermometer as cooler air moves in. That will come with a stormy price… rounds of thunderstorms are back on the agenda.
Temps today and Thursday will range from the upper 80s to low 90s. Humidity levels will make it feel like the middle 90s at times. We will have a better moisture supply filtering into the region and this should crank out scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Thunderstorms will become widespread by the weekend as a strong cold front moves our way from the northwest. These storms may be strong or severe and put down torrential rains.
All of this happens as our jet stream takes a big dip across the eastern half of the country…
That’s a heck of a shot of summer cool working in…
Highs this weekend into early next week go back to below normal levels with low and mid 80s common. Not too bad, right?
Have a great day and take care.
I’m liking the pattern for this summer. Yeah, we’ve got some heat this week, but the general trend for wet and cool has been awesome.
I am having my rummage sale Thur, Fri and Sat, Not looking good for Sat! 🙁 Was hoping for a DRY weekend!!!!!!
Yea – SAT looks to be the worst day….
I’m shocked it was 91 before NOON today in Lexington, especially with the wet and greenery all over the place.
we hit 95 here today then had a storm roll thru this eve while I was setting up for my sale! I got everything covered before it all got wet though!!! hoping I have mostly dry sky’s during the day tom and Fri!
Heat and humidity is nasty right now in Frankfort, I’m a fan of cool weather so this to me is as ugly as a 33 degree rain in winter!
94 with a heat index of 101 in Lexington at 3:00. Bowling Green up to 96 and 105!! Hard to believe these temps with the green vegetation.
just think of what the temperatures would be if the ground wasn’t somewhat saturated and the vegetation green. Our heat index would be at a record…just guessing.
Here (click link) is a remarkable video from Peak’s Pike in Colorado 😉
Yet another reminder that while rising terrain/high elevations may make tornado genesis less likely, mountains have no real effect on those twisters that do form.
Indeed, the article mentions that the 1987 Tetons twister in Wyoming traveled 24 miles at elevations between 8,500 and 10,000 feet…; this tornado traversed ridges up to 1,500 feet high.
I suspect there is something weird going on with the temp readings at KLEX. Official high of 95? Higher than SDF? And the ground is lush green around there.
The KY mesonet sight had 90 for a high in Fayette County. Five degrees seems to be a big difference.
Chris, or anyone else, have a good explanation for this?
You may be on to something. CB has mentioned this discrepancy for at least a month (including yesterday) via his Tweets. Check out the Twitter link:
http://twitter.com/Kentuckyweather
Could also be why Lexington is “officially” above normal for temps this summer.
Thunder for an hour in east Frankfort but no rain, strange, day 7 with no measurable rain in my yard, mini drought in my hood!
I’ve done a few double-takes looking at today’s radar.
It’s not all that often you see storms moving to the southwest/west-southwest in our part of the county! It’s of course usually the opposite direction.
How come the twitter feed aint showin up no more? Is it just something i need to fix on my computer or what
CB said he hopes to get it back up soon.
I get the impression it might have been a tech issue and not a deliberate deletion.