Good Thursday and welcome to the month of August. The dog days of summer usually pack quite a bite of hot weather… not this year. Our cooler and wetter than normal pattern looks to continue into much of our new month. This will likely deliver a top 10 wettest summer on record for several cities across the bluegrass state.
This first day of the month will start with fog and then feature a mix of sun and clouds with highs around 80. I can’t rule out an isolated shower or storm… especially in the south and east.
Friday will find thermometers reaching 80-85 degrees as afternoon clouds increase. That increase in clouds will be ahead of showers and thunderstorms that roll in from the northwest later Friday night and continue into Saturday…
Those storms are ahead of another surge of cooler than normal air blowing in for Sunday. Reinforcing shots of cool air will bring additional rounds of showers and storms into next week.
The GFS Ensembles continue to show a similar pattern through the middle of the month…
That is one heck of a deep trough across the eastern part of the country. If you’re a fan of heat… this isn’t the summer for you. I love these dog days! 😉
Have a good one and take care.
Did you ever hear the old weather predictor that the number of the first day of bad fog in August would be the number of measurable snows over the winter? ( i.e. August 10th– 10 snows). If we only had one good snow this year a lot of people would be either very disappointed or very happy!
Lexington is only 1.25 inches of rain from cracking the Top 10 wettest summers. I noticed 1998 was #8 on that list. That summer had a very wet June and July and then the rain just shut off and it got hot (90’s well into September). In fact, August and September of 1998 had .9 inches of rain for the entire two month period. Looks like we will avoid a similar fate this year.
Can we be done with 90’s now? I sort of doubt it but it is possible that we could be done. The NWS Climate Prediction Center (CPC) has issued well below normal temperatures for the 6-10 day and the 8-14 day temp. and percip outlook for the Midwest and ohio valley. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/610day/index.php http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/814day/index.php
All these below normal temps this time of year makes me wonder if it flops the other way this winter and we go above normal for several months, could be 3rd mild winter in a row setting up 🙁
Yeah–look at 2004–tied for the fourth coldest summer on record. NO 90 degree days!! Average temp of 71.7
Perhaps we are better off that this summer is a bit closer to average in temps than 2004. Through July 31 the average temp was 74.1. Normal for the entire summer is 74.7.
Then look at the winter of 2004-2005. We had a whopping 5.8 inches of snow (3.0 from Dec-Feb, 2.8 in March) and the average winter temp was 37.7, which is 2.8 degrees above normal.
Yup that sounds about right. I have a gut feeling we will flip flop where temps will be above normal for the winter.
2004 was my first summer in KY after being gone for 14 years. It was great! As for the 5.8 inches of snow… in my 9 years back I have only seen that much snow perhaps twice; not at any one time, twice – total for the entire winter! I live in a snow shadow in my part of Madison County.