Good Thursday, everyone. Rounds of showers and storms caused all kinds of problems throughout central and eastern Kentucky Wednesday. Torrential rains caused local high water issues and the lightning turned deadly. The atmosphere will produce additional storms out there today.
Heavy rain and cloud to ground lightning strikes will continue to be the main threat from the storms. The boomers will really get going during the afternoon and evening hours and you can track them here…
A cold front will work in here from the north on Friday. This front will spark additional showers and thunderstorms across the region. The NAM Simulated Radar shows what I’m talking about…
It’s going to be a close call on getting the storms out of here for the kickoff of the high school football season. That’s something I will be updating through the day Friday.
That will usher in some better weather for the weekend, but some models try to keep enough juice around to fire up a storm across the south.
The heat is going to make a run at us next week and my August forecast is happy about that. We have a shot at 90 degrees at some point next week, but we will also have to watch the storm threat. The GFS is trying to put is in the region in line for clusters of storms…
We will wait and see how that all plays out. Regardless… the models continue to point toward a big flip as we head into early September…
Make it a great day and take care.
Thanks, CB! End of August sure looks hot for southern Kentucky…but hopefully we won’t have to wait too long until cooler air pours back into the picture. 🙂 Thanks for all you do!
Thanks, Chris. Feeling a little bit “under the weather” yeaterday and today. Sinuses just love this hot, cool, humid, rainy weather….NOT. But I have done better this year. This is my first one of the summer. Got through Spring without a hitch. Guess I am going to make up for it now.
Hope the warmth stays around in Florida in three weeks,and it is warmer than last year. Have a great Thursday, everyone and thanks again, Chris. for all that you do.
Looks like one last (perhaps) summer surge next week. Highs 90-95 with high dewpoints for Monday-Thursday according to the NWS forecast discussion.
Seems similar to the period we had in Mid-July.