Good Monday, folks. A lot of the kiddos are already back in school and a lot of others head back this week. The first few days of school often features some wicked August heat. Not this year. As we’ve talked about for a while, another push of late September air arrives in Kentucky this week.
That next round of cool will be introduced by a few rounds of showers and thunderstorms today into Tuesday. Here’s what the setup looks like over the next few days…
The air coming in behind that front will be similar to what we had a few weeks back. Highs will generally run in the 70s with lows into the low and mid 50s. Look how far south the cool mornings get on the GFS…
Moisture will begin to increase from the south by Friday. Some of the latest model runs have been trying to get something tropical going down in the Gulf. The GFS is among them…
We will have to keep an eye on that setup because, regardless of something tropical, the flow coming from the Gulf can bring some pretty good rains our way.
This takes us into the second half of the month and the question becomes… will we go through August without hitting 90? That is more than a possibility at this point. My monthly forecast on WKYT called for a late month run at 90, so let’s see if I was onto something or just on something. 🙂
Have a great Monday and take care.
I for one would like to see some sort of heat wave before summer closes out. But before then, bring on the 70’s!!
There have only been 5 August’s in the past 85 years that have not featured a 90 degree temp in Lexington. One of them was 2004–a very cold summer. If you are a winter enthusiast don’t try to look at that winter for hope. The winter of 2004-2005 was warm and almost snowless!
I remember the 2004 summer. That was the year my house was being built……..It was a very WET and STORMY summer! That was the year the tornado hit masterson station……..but it also did damage at McConnell’s Trace………The only thing of my house that existed at the time of the tornado was the foundation……but the house directly beside mine was almost completed……it was damanged severely…….and had to be torn completely down…..Talk about good timing for my house…..The winter that followed was nothing to write home about……….But that summer was DIFFERENT than this summer….It seemed like it took nothing to fire a storm up that year…..
So there goes my plans for mowing day rained much much earlier than expected
Please pray for the rain to hold off this weekend till Sunday…our Special Olympic Regional Softball tournament is this weekend. Our favorite time of year for Scott County Softball Club!
Here in Richmond Virginia we are loving the cooler temperatures! Wed & Thur. we’re only expected to have highs in the upper 70s! How cool is that? (literally)
My favorite weather is September and October, Usually dry and low humidity with temps mostly 70s, our springs are usually to cold or wet! So no 90 degree weather the rest of the year sounds great to me!m
You can put early to mid-November (average high in the lower 60’s falling to the mid 50’s) in that category as well.
Raining in Gtown
I thought I lived in Kentucky, not Florida. Another drenching rain in Lawrenceburg with muggy conditions again todayl Six days in a row.
Looks like Lburg is in the sweet spot for the heavy rain lately, I’m about 15 to 20 miles from their in Frankfort, so far today about .15 of an inch of rain, more looks to be headed your way from latest Louisville radar!
Yep–here it is.
We got 1.7″ in the rain gauge after the storm early this afternoon. It really poured and now we have a creek running between our house and our neighbor’s… not supposed to be one there! That makes 4.7″ here in Northern Jessamine since Thursday.
And yet another round of thunder and rain in Lawrenceburg. 40% chance-well, I guess I am one of the unfortunate ones! So tired of mowing!
Looks like this round may actually sink south of us. Some steady rain, but not the heavy stuff I feared.
I’m here in south Lex and was in a T-storm warning, and flash flood warning and only got a few drops of rain!!! the storm was showing southward progression and then stalled out right before it got here and I saw the rain shaft soo close but didn’t hit me. Good because no flooding here, bad because flooding to the north.