Good Saturday to one and all. We have a cold front approaching the region from the northwest this weekend and that’s bringing a few rounds of showers and thunderstorms with it. Some of these storms may be strong and put down torrential rains from time to time.
Temps outside of the storms are back into the upper 80s to around the 90 degree mark today. Winds will gust up a bit from the southwest as a few storms start to crank this afternoon. A line of showers and storms then develops to our northwest and rolls into the state by the evening. This line should be weaking the farther east you go.
Today’s Severe Weather Outlook is highlighting the low-end risk across parts of Kentucky…
The low-end risk continues into Sunday, especially across western Kentucky…
Showers and storms will be scattered around again on Monday as the cold front tries to make a little headway to our south. That would then sweep back to the north ahead of a series of systems looking to drop in from the northwest. Here’s the EURO showing this from Wednesday through the following Wednesday, July 23rd…
That pattern comes as the EURO shows some pretty extensive dips in the jet stream across the eastern half of the country…
That’s all you crazy kids get today. I leave you with your Saturday storm tracking toys…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Make it a great Saturday and take care.
Hopefully Schroeder and Joe get the rains they’re looking for, just not too much. 😉
Thanks Jeff, I hope it won’t be dry all month in my area, as I had to water my plants yesterday.
Thanks Jeff, we picked up 0.75 inches of rain on Monday, and unusually, it was a relatively slow, steady rain. My lawn was so thirsty, I swear I heard it slurping!
Most of the time we’ll go a couple of weeks without rain, with temperatures reaching 90° and above every day. If we’re lucky, we’ll get a heavy thunderstorm, but since the soil has dried out rock hard, most of that rain runs off. It seems to be the new normal in central Warren County.
An amplified High pressure to our south and east is responsible for systems weaking as they move south and east. Thanks La Nina you Bit**.
But then that would mean the entire southeast shouldn’t be getting storms, yet they are
The center of the highest pressure is closer to us, but the high has holes in it to allow warm air to rise and condensate with the cooler air aloft. Hence scattered showers, but few and far between.
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