Good Sunday, gang. Small changes are showing up on the radar today and this is just a very small sample of what’s to come. The patter over the next few weeks is about to take a serious walk on the cold side. A major pattern change is about to take place across North America.
The small change today includes isolated showers and storms going up. The best chance will be across eastern Kentucky. Regional radar will help you out…
With some clouds and isolated action, temps will be a little cooler than the past few days.
Monday looks like the best day of the week ahead with partly sunny skies and temps back into the middle 70s. Winds will be gusty from the southwest as a cold front inches our way from the west. That front will be the catalyst for our change to cold weather.
It will also bring showers and thunderstorms our way by late Tuesday…
How much rain we get and how long it lasts will depend on if we can get a wave or low pressure to develop along the boundary. Regardless… cold air filters in behind the front for the second half of the week. That’s when we get to models to diverge.
The GFS brings very cold air southward behind a simple frontal passage…
The European Model brings a similar air mass our way, but goes about it in a different way. It shows a significant storm rolling in from southwest to northeast…
That has a winter look to it and would produce snow in the western Ohio Valley and Great Lakes. No matter which one proves to be correct… it gets even colder around here.
This continues to look like a cold pattern for the rest of the month into early November.
Have a great Sunday and take care.
Thanks for your hard work Chris. What exactly are you calling “cold”? I ask, because both the NWS and TWC aren’t showing anything below 60s/40s for Murray, KY for the next 7-10 days. Are you meaning cooler?
Thanks Chris. Looks like it turning cold early this year. Hope we don’t lose all the leaves this week as ours have just started turning. Would be nice to see some color before they are all gone. Gonna enjoy today and tomorrow it looks like I’m gonna have to bring out the serious long sleeves possibly. Everyone have a great Sunday.
Thank you Chris for all you do. I start every day reading you blog. I am also wondering the same as Jeff. I know blue colors mean cold,but could you please put the temperature ranges also when you post these maps? I don’t have a clue what am looking at as far as temperature. Thank you sir
it means prepare yourself for a cold rain
Exactly! Now what’s that “snow” thing Chris is talking about?
At least one person here has learned their lesson over the past year… or two… or three……
Exactly! Now what’s that “snow” thing Chris is talking about?
Hi Chris,
Weather folklore speaks of the fogs of August to predict winter snows.
What is the forecast for Northern Ky (Campbell Cty) and how accurate are the predictions? How many fogs did we have in Aug ’13?