Good Saturday to one and all. Rounds of storms continue to blow across the Bluegrass state, bringing the potential for damaging winds and flooding rains. This setup continues into early Sunday before we focus on heat and humidity.
Today’s storms continue to come at us in waves with several hours of dry weather in between. Regardless, the main threat from the storms continues to be torrential rains with some areas picking up several inches of rain in a short amount of time.
Much of the region continues to be under a Flood Watch today…
Just like Friday, a few of the storms may be strong or severe. Damaging wind is the primary threat with some pockets of hail. Today’s Severe Weather Outlook from the Storm Prediction Center looks like this…
Additional showers and storms will likely rumble across the state tonight into part of Sunday. The future radar from the RRFS shows what’s out there today through Sunday…
Most of those Sunday storms should stay below severe limits. Here’s the Sunday Severe Weather Outlook…
Heat and humidity build into the region from the west late Sunday into Monday. The wet ground and green, lush vegetation will help temper the temperatures a bit with highs in the 90-95 degree range, but the humidity will be a different story.
The air will be about as humid and nasty as you can get and that boosts the heat index to 100 or better…
That trend lasts through the week as some storms start to go back up ahead of an eventual dip in the jet stream over the 4th of July weekend…
As always, I leave you with your daily tracking toys…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Make it a great Saturday and take care.
At 6:05am CDT it started raining in central Warren County for the first time in nearly 3 weeks. So far we’ve picked up 0.75 inches, and the radar to the west look continues to look promising. It’s fortunate that we’re finally putting a dent in the deficit, especially since temps next week will be in the mid to upper 90’s. Some area lawns were making a “crunchy” sound we don’t usually hear around here until mid August, and we’ve had a number of sinkholes open up across the region, likely due to a drop in the local water table under karst formations.
Ready for a dry spell (non-drought).
Thanks Chris. Been raining here in northern Taylor County all morning. I’ll have the total when this event ends. The heat coming next week won’t be as bad, but if the dew points are in the 70’s, it could be miserable.
I’ve been to New Orleans and Texas in the summertime. Kentucky is amateur stuff compared to both.
Yeah they are amateur compared what we get during the winter time. Two way street
Funny thing is that I can handle all of it. 😉
Really? Have you seen Joe’s dewpoint heat index readings from the past years here? Off the charts. I think I vaguely remember him saying worse than when he lived in Louisiana. Like heat index temps in the 120s with extremely high dewpoints. I mean, during a heat wave, IOWA can he hotter than Florida because of the dewpoint being worse. I think the deep south can seem worse because they have consistent high humidity and heat where as areas outside the deep south have heat bursts, but not sustained and get many more breaks from heat.
No doubt that Joe gets it, but overall Kentucky just doesn’t compare.