Good Wednesday everyone and welcome to a much calmer weather day across the state. Tuesday turned out to be a heck of a day for a lot of people across the country. Now we await the chill down coming over the next few days that threatens to give us our first freeze of the season.
Before we look ahead… let us take a look back at our windy and stormy Tuesday. Wind gusts across the state generally ranged in the 40-60mph range with a few gusts to 75mph reported. Dozens and dozens of severe weather reports were received from across the state to go along with the hundreds of reports from across the region…
Those are preliminary reports… but this was one heck of a severe weather outbreak for this time of year. Speaking of this outbreak… kudos to all the National Weather Service offices across the area as they did a fantastic job of getting warnings out well ahead of the line of storms. Great job!
Speaking of … here is a note from the folks in Louisville about the historic storm in the plains causing all the fuss…
A new record was set today for the lowest pressure in a non-tropical storm in the mainland United States. The massive storm system barreling across the central U.S. had a minimum central pressure of 28.23″ or 956 mb (equivalent to the minimum pressure of a Category 3 hurricane). This breaks the old record of 28.28″ (958 mb), set on Jan. 26, 1978, during the Blizzard of 1978 (aka the Cleveland Sueprbomb). This is also lower than the March 1993 Superstorm (aka “The Storm of the Century”), and the “Witch of November” storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, and even the Columbus Day Storm of October 1962.
That is impressive to say the least!
Lost in the shuffle of the winds and severe storms is the amount of rain that fell. Most of the area picked up between 1″ and 3″ of MUCH needed moisture.
Looking ahead we find chillier times over the next few days as colder air moves in. Today will feature another windy day with gusts around 20mph or so with partly sunny skies and temps in the upper 60s to low 70s.
The cold air dumbells in here tonight into Thursday. Highs Thursday and Friday will likely stay in the low to mid 50s with a mix of sun and clouds. Gusty northwesterly winds will add to the chill.
Low temps for Friday and Saturday should fall into the upper 20s to low 30s setting us up for a freeze.
Your Halloween weekend looks pretty good for all the ghosts and goblins making their candy rounds as highs return toward the low and mid 60s with partly sunny skies.
The pattern into next week should crank back up once again with a potent storm trying to develop early in the week. The models don’t know exactly what to do with this yet… but it is safe to say we should get more decent rains out of it all. It should also turn much colder behind the departing storm. The European Model seems to think so…
There has been a noticeable trend toward colder air temps for the weekend into first half of next week and that will be something for us to watch for.
Have a great Wednesday and take care.
Since that massive low went through the upper Midwest, I took a look to see how much rain Minneapolis received. They received .21 inches of rain. I took a look at their year to date rainfall and it’s only 27 inches…….Lexington’s year to date precip is 31 inches. Yet they are not in drought status and we are…..even having received more rainfall this year to date than they have…………So are we more susceptible to drought in this area because we typically see generous rains ? I notice every area of the country has an average, and if they deviate much from that average it goes to drought status……
Wow, not a peep out of anyone today! 😉
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