Good Saturday and welcome to the weekend. We are tracking a cold front across Kentucky today and this front will bring another shot of late September air. That air will replace the… early September air we have today. 🙂 The bad side of all this will be the possibility of showers and thunderstorms.
These storms will work from northwest to southeast today and will become a bit more widespread during the afternoon and early evening. Here’s your regional radar…
Locally heavy rainfall and a lot of lightning will be noted in the stronger storms. Temps ahead of the front will top out in the lower 80s as winds gust up.
The front passes through here this evening into tonight as cooler and drier air wins the battle by Sunday. The day may still start with a shower or two across the south, but the sun will take center stage during the afternoon. Temps will top out in the mid and upper 70s.
Lows by Monday morning will drop toward the low and middle 50s. Highs will be back into the upper 70s to around 80 during the afternoon ours with a mix of sun and clouds.
The models are putting us back into a storm zone for the middle and end of next week as the next push of cool air works southward from Canada…
Here’s what the air coming behind the storms looks like…
Overall… the models show a fairly active pattern taking us through the next few weeks. The GFS 2 week rainfall forecast…
I’ll start throwing out those winter hints over the next few days. 🙂 Have a great Saturday and take care.
Thanks, Chris. Might as well throw out winter hints since it appears summer is a short lived season around here this year. Oh well, it is still good. Have a great Saturday, everyone!
I have a question anybody, I moved last fall and I know it can go below zero here but how often does it happen? Any below zero statistics someone can bring out?
Isreal – LOL
You must REALLY be looking forward to winter. I’ve lived here since August 1996. From what I remember, it seems to happen a few times every couple of winters…….I know the record low for Lex is 21 below…..but there have been more than one occurrence of the daytime high staying below zero. I think 3 or 4 times the daytime high only reached 3 below….Very rare ….. I think each month from Nov to Mar has had below zero temps at some point since records have been kept…..I think our temps seem to be in the single digits or teens MUCH more than below zero…….
When CB mentioned winter, I thought back to the winter we had here in KY compared to the winters I’ve spent in Minnesota and Florida. I do look forward to winter but I’m not that desperate. Lol
The Jackson KY office of the NWS put out an interesting article (click here) about fewer subzero winters being recorded in recent decades. Includes some interesting graph data that may address your question.
Even Nashville TN dropped to minus 17 and Huntsville Alabama minus 11 as recently as January 1985 (I was just a toddler, so too young to remember). Louisville sank to minus 22 in January 1994 but I was in east Tennessee at the time where it dropped only a few degrees below zero IIRC.
As the graphs from the link shows, there have been fewer and less severe cold outbreaks since about 1994.
I’ve only directly experienced a few occasions below zero, such as late 2000s in Evansville Indiana. Even these temps were only narrowly below zero and not the twenty below of decades past.
Mind you, zero degrees F is bad enough for me. I have no desire to experience 20 below. 😉 I had a job offer a few years ago from Wisconsin; turned it down when an equally good job opened closer to home but the northern cold was also a partial factor in not moving north.
Here’s your info
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/lmk/lexington_cli_pdf/Days_of_0_or_below_Season_Lexington.pdf
December of 1989 was the most brutal stretch of weather I can remember.
In Louisville, I don’t think it went above zero for like around 4 days during that stretch. That little ‘weather-sode’ broke me of my fondness for winter for the rest of the season. Worked 3rd shift then too, brrrrrr.
A great white Christmas that year!
Looking like most locations will stay dry today, we could use a little dry spell!