Good Sunday, everyone. We are enjoying another round of awesome weather across the bluegrass state. The combination of fair skies and cooler than normal temps will continue for a few more days. Then… the pattern starts to take on a rather stormy look across our part of the world.

Temps today will hang out in the upper 70s across central and eastern Kentucky with a few low 80s across the west and southwest. Humidity levels will continue to drop from north to south and this will give us another dose of comfy. That comfy will lead temps to drop into the 50s overnight with a touch of valley fog.

Monday looks like another fantastic day with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. High clouds will roll into town from west to east and this will signal our stormy setup ahead.

A heat ridge is starting to become established across Texas and will try to expand a bit this week. That expansion will bump up against the never ending cool across the northern half of the country. In between… clusters of showers and storms will be on the increase. These storms will be noted around here as early as Tuesday…

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MUCH higher chances from Wednesday through Friday.

The 2 week rainfall forecast from the GFS shows this pattern beautifully…

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That would be a heck of a way for many cities to crash the top 10 wettest summers on record.That would also ensure a cooler than normal month as the real heat never actually gets into the state.

We’re getting to the time of year we start to look ahead at the upcoming fall and winter. It’s still way too far out to get a decent handle on how things will set up, but I’m looking back and similar years to this one and checking on how those winters played out. I will share some of that with you in the coming days and weeks.

That said… we can still look ahead and have a little fun. The CFS forecast for Thanksgiving Day  is showing a cold turkey for much of the eastern half of the country…

CFS 1Heck, that would even have some flakes flying around here. Of course, that map and 20 dollars will get you a cup of coffee nowadays. 🙂

Have a great Sunday and take care.