Good Monday to one and all. Summer temps steamed into the Commonwealth on Sunday and continue out there today. This toasty temp setup is ahead of a much wetter pattern that will likely feature rounds of storms through Memorial Day Weekend.
Highs out there today are mainly in the upper 80s and low 90s, with the chance for a few record highs to fall.
While we are baking, storms are cranking to our west with the Plains and Mississippi River Valley under the gun for severe weather. This threat is largely to our west and northwest today…
A few strong to, potentially, severe thunderstorms roll into western Kentucky later this evening and tonight. This is ahead of a cold front working into Kentucky late Tuesday into Wednesday. Rounds of showers and storms are likely along this slow-moving boundary and some of these may be strong or severe.
The Storm Prediction Center shows the Tuesday threat moving edging into Kentucky…
This animation shows the waves of storms rumbling across the state from later Tuesday through Wednesday…
This boundary slows down, allowing for waves of low pressure to develop and roll through our region from the southwest. This brings additional rounds of showers and storms through the unofficial kickoff to summer that is the Memorial Day weekend…
The models are in pretty solid agreement on some healthy rains across our part of the world…
This likely kicks off a wetter than normal pattern that may feature quite the swath of rains setting up from the lower Mississippi Valley into our region into June. The EURO Weeklies are well above normal for rainfall from now through the first day of July…
I’ll have the latest on WKYT-TV and on WKYT + later today. Until then, here are the tracking tools you need for the day…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Make it a magnificent Monday and take care.
