Smoky Skies and Better Temps Settle In

Good Wednesday to one and all. Here’s hoping this post finds each of you enjoying your best life! It certainly is a better weather life out there today with a much better brand of air across Kentucky, albeit with a smoky sky.

As we head toward the weekend and the start of August, a slow-moving upper-level system will be spinning up some showers and storms around these parts.

Temps out there today range from the upper 70s to middle 80s with much lower humidity that’s filtering in from the north and northeast. You will continue to notice a hazy/milky sky out there as upper-level smoke shows up from wildfires burning all the way back in the Pacific Northwwest.

Watch how the northeast flow starts to push the smokiest sky to our southwest by later tonight…

Lows by Thursday and Friday morning will dip into the upper 50s for parts of central and eastern Kentucky as our dry, pleasant skies continue.

Clouds will increase on Friday as a slow-moving upper level low pushes in from the west. This low likely spins across the state and region over the weekend into early next week. This setup can deliver some pretty healthy rainfall amounts. Here’s the Canadian from Friday evening through the middle of next week…

Here’s the EURO from Friday night through Monday afternoon…

With the potential for heavy rains, we will have to be on guard for some high water issues from time to time. The Weather Prediction Center shows the potential on the Excessive Rainfall Outlooks from Friday through Sunday…

 

As always, I leave you with your daily tracking toys…

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Make it a wonderful Wednesday and take care.

2 Comments

  1. Schroeder

    Thanks Chris. The smoky skies has provided us with a beautiful orange Moon set. Really liking the cooler than normal temperatures, but there is a lot of Summer yet to happen to bring those temperatures up to a more normal level. Hoping we do not have the rains the models are indicating.

  2. Jeff Hamlin

    Bring on the blowtorch heat.

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