Good Saturday, everyone. It’s another pretty nice weather day across Kentucky as temps finally feel a little more like what we should be feeling. By Father’s Day, we have to be on guard for a few more waves of strong to severe storms rumbling across Kentucky.
Let’s start with our Saturday and roll forward.
Highs today are generally 80-85 in most areas with a mix of sun and clouds. There’s just the slightest chance for a stray storm going up in the north or west.
Temps are seasonably warm again for Father’s Day with humidity levels coming up, too. This is ahead of another potent low pressure rolling into the Ohio Valley and dragging a cold front into Kentucky.
Rounds of showers and storms increase along and ahead of this front with the greatest threat coming Sunday afternoon through early Monday. You can see all this firing up on the future radar from early Sunday into Monday…
Some of the storms may be strong or severe, especially Sunday afternoon into Sunday night. Here’s the latest Severe Weather Outlook from the Storm Prediction Center for Sunday…
A lingering low-end severe risk may show up still early Monday. Here’s the outlook for then..
With a waterlogged ground in many areas, the threshold for flash flooding is lower than normal, so any storm that goes up can cause some issues. Here’s the area the Weather Prediction Center is monitoring for Father’s Day…
The area of interest on Monday…
Once this system moves through, the overall pattern remains very active into the closing days of June. The upper air pattern looks like something out of the cold weather months instead of the lead up to the 4th of July…
That pattern likely has additional rounds of heavy rain-making showers and storms to go along with below normal temps.
As always, I leave you with your daily tracking toys…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Make it a sensational Saturday and take care.
Thanks Chris. The blocking over Greenland is why we are having the current weather pattern. I would expect this high pressure over Greenland will weaken as we approach July. Our usual Summer weather will then come about.
I hope it doesn’t get as hot and dry as last year. That was hard on our deer population. And not a lot of fun for some of us humans either.
Jeff excluded. lol
Dottie, what I could find, that the odds are 60 to 70% that Kentucky finishes Summer 2026 warmer than the 1991 to 2020 average. We have been seeing lots of Deer earlier this Spring, but here lately they been in the forest. It should be good hunting despite the predicted heat is what my brother is saying. This longer rainy cool spell has helped a lot. We shall see.
Another backloaded Summer to come just like last year.
Jeff, I think you will enjoy July and August, and maybe part of September ? I for one, after the Fourth of July, I am ready for Autumn type weather.