Good Saturday, folks. Our busy weekend of weather is upon us and we will spend today tracking rounds of showers and thunderstorms across the state. Some of these could be strong or severe. Add high winds and heavy rains to the mix and … you get the picture.
Let’s break it all down with the headlines…
– Scattered showers and storms will be around this morning and some of these will be booming.
– Rain and storms will be common for most of the day across the western part of the state. This could lead to flooding issues.
– A break in the action will take place later this afternoon across the central and east. That may help boost temps into the upper 60s to near 70 degrees.
– A squall line of thunderstorms will roll in during the evening and continue overnight. Damaging winds will be possible with this line of storms.
– Even without storms… winds may gust to 40mph or greater.
– Sunday will see showers during the morning with some sun into the afternoon hours. Temps will slowly drop through the day and the crash during the evening and overnight.
– Highs for Monday will be 30-35 degrees with a few flurries or snow showers possible.
– It gets even colder for Christmas Eve with lows in the teens and highs in the 20s. Gusty winds will make it fee much colder than that.
– Some models continue to try to develop something for later in the week…
Here are the tracking toys of the day:
Today’s Risk Area
Current Watches
Possible Watch Areas
Current temperatures
Winds
I will have updates later today. Take care.
We had weeks at a time in the 70’s in the 70’s when we got all that snow. Amazing, isn’t it?
Gee, look at the radar, the Ohio River gets all the weather once again. Whether it be rain, sleet, snow, ice. They get everything. Wonder why that section of the state is the hot spot this winter?? No, I’m not buying the argument that the river somehow affects the weather pattern. Nope. I’m telling ya folks, central Ky is where northern Ga was 20 yrs ago. Warm winters with cold rains and little if any snows that are measureable. The climate changeth!!
I wouldn’t agree with the warm winter part (yet). We had two warm winters in a row but the winter of 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 were the two coldest back to back since the late 70’s. Now, if we get a third warm winter in a row this year, I think you are on to something!
Go to the WxRisk.com facebook page and watch the This Week in Weather that was posted on 12-18-13 and he explains the pattern we are in, which answers your question.
WHY do we have to hear about CKY not getting anything on EVERY single post. We get it! Trust me we do!
Thanks CB for the update. Really happy to see the heaviest precip over the weekend will be northwest of us. Kinda like the snow forecasts. Starts out on the high end only to end up with flurries. Not complaining with the change in then rain amounts. Less flooding for us here in KY.
Feels like a June morning out there. Humid, breezy, temps near 70 at 7 in the morning.
Upper 50’s at 8:30 A.M. I wonder how high the temps in Central KY can go today?
All-time record highs for December are:
75 in Lexington set on December 3, 1982
78 in Frankfort set on December 4, 1982
76 in Louisville set on December 3, 1982
78 in Bowling Green set on December 3, 1982.
I think Lexington has a shot!
The big story of the day may be damaging winds\thunderstorms. Hoping none of you get any damage or power outages from this. Great day to all
if the low develops next week it will probably ride the East Coast. I’ve seen this story line many times.
might be a good track for Andy and Bryant.
backside Lows seem to over perform when they ride the coast line.
by the way thunder was my alarm clock this morning here in Louisville.
a good day to sit in the house and watch and see if the Wildcats can get untrack today.
Wow, 5″ of rain four days before Christmas isn’t “fun” but oh well. Trusting Chris when he says winter is just getting started.
That moderate risk is oh too close for me. I mean, seriously, I’m so sick of the threat for severe weather. It seems like every friggin month now, not just spring…..
Looking for a silver lining, or should I?
0.86″ at Valley Station as of 10:55 am
Want to avoid flooding rains, so the warm front moves north and might move heaviest rain out of the area. That would be good for me.
But being in the warm sector puts me in line for severe weather later today. Not good for me.
Here is the best case scenario for me. Warm front moves far enough north and takes the rain with it for now. Severe weather erupts far enough south that it robs the area of the heaviest, flooding rains later today.
Right now, I’m on the tail end of this rain shield but keep getting inundated with periodic waves of heavier rain. As I finish with this update, another 0.08″ has fallen in just a couple of minutes.
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Ok, the rain is still in the same spot it was at 7am. Now what kind of front just trains and doesn’t move eastward?? I am wondering if this thing has stalled out. Wind is doing its thing but rain is a non event so far. He did say tonight so maybe its got to sit and spin for a while before moving our way.
The kind we had 2 weeks ago that caused flooding in SE Ky the most wasnt concerned about because it didnt bring snow to thier area
Up to 68 in Lawrenceburg, on and off sun. I think I’m going to grill out after the UK game.