Good Friday and welcome to the high school football season. Fall is just around the corner, but mother nature has a different idea for next week… Temps are looking a little toasty. Before we get to that point, we’re tracking a cold front across the state today.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be likely along and ahead of this front. Here’s regional radar to track the action…
Those showers and storms will end from north to south during the afternoon and evening. That should make for improving conditions for high school football games. We may still have a shower or storm across the south, but a drying wind will clear the skies for many as temps drop into the 70s.
The weekend looks good with highs in the low and middle 80s under partly sunny skies.
The big heat ridge across the plains states will balloon eastward toward the state next week. Western Kentucky will likely see temps hit the 90-95 degree range, but central and eastern parts will stay cooler and may see a few rounds of storms. The GFS continues to hint at these diving in from the northwest…
We’ll keep a close eye on that setup as we get closer.
That very warm/hot/humid pattern is likely to carry us in some fashion into the Labor Day Weekend. The models continue to point toward it breaking down in early September…
Have a great Friday and take care.
Thanks Chris! Nice to see that we do have a little bit of summer coming at us after all. the forecast sounds more like Florida weather with the chance of scattered storms. I am not quite ready to turn loose of summer, but football sounds good. Looking forward to the high school and college seasons! Have a great Friday, everyone, and thanks again Chris. for all that you do.
Kinda bummed. Been enjoying the fall preview for the past couple weeks. As long as this hot trend is temporary, I’ll be ‘cool’ with it 😉
I too would like to see the cooler weather come & stay; however I can’t be selfish. Let the kids enjoy the rest of their vacation (schools haven’t started here yet in Rich. Va.) while they can. Like Cameron said “I’ll be cool with some cooler temps real soon”.
Nice to see I’m not the only one outside Kentucky that likes Chris’s website (I’m in Nashville TN and grew up in
TN although I have lived in KY twice).
I suppose that what weather we get then often happens in your area 12-24 hours down the road which is an added bonus for you using KWC.
Speaking of Richmond VA, can you believe that today is exactly two years since the infamous earthquake that shook the mid-Atlantic and northeast?!! Just read that the Washington Monument up the road from you is still closed for repairs.
Let the “next week snowstorm” season begin!!!
Last 10 days in east Frankfort I have measured 1 tenth of an in. of rain, so our first real dry spell of the summer is under way in my part of the world, the lake level is even dropping behind the house, some areas close to me last week got 3 to 4 inches of rain? I guess it’s all about location!
Its been the same in ohio valley into the Midwest. Abnormally dry conditions are now developing for more than half the Midwest since a couple weeks ago. Any rain that we do get, is isolated and sparse. I really hope it doesn’t continue. Looks like we wont get much more rain for the rest of summer ending next Saturday.
I hear you. It’s bone dry at my house and hasn’t rained in quite awhile. Temps the past week have been running around 90 and with little to no rain in the forecast, things really look to dry out over the next week. I’m thinking that we in Louisville have a chance to hit the high 90’s next week with the dry ground and browning vegetation.
You know something I’ve noticed this summer??
20 percent chance of rain (isolated storms) = Gully washer
80 percent chance of rain (widespread storms) = Isolated storms