Good Saturday and welcome to the weekend. Another big push of cool air is blowing across the bluegrass state today as a cold front slips in. This front will touch off a scattering of showers and thunderstorms today with the late September temps to follow.
Clouds and scattered showers and storms will help keep today’s temps from getting to 80 degrees in many areas. The actual rain action isn’t going to be a washout, but you will need to keep the umbrella or rain gear handy.
The cold front swing through here this evening and that allows the bottom to fall out… July style. This is a map straight out of fall…
This air mass spells low and mid 50s for low temps Sunday and Monday with highs in the 70s. Record lows are likely to fall both days. Outlying areas may drop into rare territory in July… the upper 40s.
The threat for showers and storms will return by Tuesday and should hang around through the end of the week. That’s when low pressure is forecast to track from west to east across the Tennessee Valley…
Hmmm… if this were winter… 😉 Regardless, that’s a setup that will keep temps on the cooler side of normal for the end of next week.
Looking farther down the road, the GFS Ensembles keep the cool pattern through, at least, August 7th…
Make it a great Saturday and take care.
This has been such an unusual weather year. We had a more normal winter but since then it has been anything but. Chris, are there years that this pattern matches up to in relation to the cool weather? And how the rest of those years played out? Just curious.
The record low for Sunday morning in Lexington is 54 from 2004. That was my favorite summer that I can remember since I don’t enjoy hot and humid weather. That summer had 0 90 degree temps and a day in August with a high in the 60’s and low in the 40’s.
This year just keeps getting better and better!
Chris…for us snow-lovers, care to throw us a bone about the coming winter? Any chance for colder than normal temps with more snow possible? What have winters past looked like when the summer was more mild and wetter? Where could one find that info if they wanted to look? The blog rocks!!!
It is impossible to know what the upcoming winter will be like. Looking at the summers that were wetter and milder and their winter has no correlation to how this winter could be. I WISH it that easy but I have learned it is impossible. This winter could be the coldest, warmest, snowiest, driest. Just like the winter of 11-12 was a HUGE bust for all long range weather forecasters. Sorry, but it’s the truth.
Winter forecasting is just guestcasting. After 8 years here I have given up on winter forecasts.
I love the forecast keep it cool into the Winter and then please bring on the Snow!!!!!!!!!!!!
This summer reminds me of summer 1992, that year was wetter and cooler than normal and we know what happened that winter in March 93, superstorm blizzard that hammered parts of east KY with over 30 inches of snow!
Just saying 😉
It is similar to 1992–I hope the correlation to 1993 turns out to work!
Chris has hit the nail on the head again on this pattern. Can’t say that about other weather guys
Winter,Snow talk in July…Blah…Get out and enjoy the crisp Fall air heading our way..Besides I still have some prize tomatoes growing…Now when growing season is over let’s talk winter..lol..
with your username, it seems like you’re ready for snow anytime. Contradicting yourself, lol just playin’
did someone say winter, and snow??…lol