Good Tuesday, everyone. It’s Election Day and our weather feeling more like summer with toasty temps and a few storms. This stormy setup will really ramp up later this week into Memorial Day Weekend and beyond. Things can get pretty darn wet around here.
Temps out there today generally range from 85-90 with a mix of sun and clouds. Winds will be gusty with the chance for isolated showers and storms going up. As a cold front inches closer, the potential is there for an increase in thunderstorms from west to east this evening and tonight.
The Storm Prediction Center continues to highlight the severe risk across the west with a lower threat getting into parts of central Kentucky…
Showers and storms then work across the state from late tonight into Wednesday with the potential for some lingering action into Thursday…
From there, we watch additional rounds of showers and storms targeting the region over the Memorial Day Weekend. This animation starts Friday and runs through Memorial Day…
This wet pattern looks to stick around for much of next week with the models keeping the rounds of showers and storms going through the start of June…
Those animations are from the EURO which is showing a lot of rain over this 2 week span…
The Canadian doesn’t go out as far in time, but the 10 day rainfall forecast is robust…
All of this is playing right into the pattern the EURO Weeklies have been showing and continue to show. The Weeklies are growing even wetter from now through July 2nd with well above normal rainfall…
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 terrific Tuesday and take care.
