Good Wednesday gang and thanks for dropping by the blog. Summer weather fans have got to be loving the weather we have had for the past few days and what we are seeing out there again today. If you are not a fan of the heat… we do have some cooler days ahead as a cold front blows across the bluegrass.
There isn’t much I can say about the weather today. It’s hot for much of the state as temps head toward 90 again over the west and north. Areas across the south and east will see lower readings because of a wetter ground… highs in these areas will run in the middle 80s.
Our cold front moves in quickly for Thursday. This front will bring a round of showers and thunderstorms to the region from west to east. It does not have a ton of juice to work with… but the dynamics are great enough to crank out some storms. The NAM agrees…
Thursday Afternoon
Thursday Evening
This is a vigorous system rolling from the midwest into the northern Ohio Valley for Thursday. This should produce a ton of severe weather to our west today and it does have the potential to put down some severe storms across our part of the world tomorrow. Here is the latest severe weather outlook from the SPC for Thursday…
Damaging winds would be the main threat.
A couple of notes about the extended forecast…
1. Friday looks great as high temps come down into the upper 70s across the east and low 80s for the west. Sunny skies will make for a great start to the weekend.
2. The weekend itself continues to look good as temps rebound back into the 80s. Keep an eye on a front approaching from the north as this may bring the a stray storm or two into the region. Right now… it looks like the front will put the brakes on before it can get too far south into our region.
3. Temps early next week should really take off with readings similar to the past few days possible once again.
4. Eventually… the pattern may try to get fairly wild across the eastern half of the country for the last week or so of September. There is a ton of cold air in Canada and it is just biding its time before it can dive southward into the states. Combine that with the models wanting to pop something else in the Gulf of Mexico by that time and it could get fun.
Speaking of the tropics… we currently have 3 named storms. Hurricane Igor is a BEAST… Hurricane Julia is growing into a beast and Tropical Storm Karl will have to fight Mexico for the right to become one. Here is a look at our tropical trio…
Here is the latest on Igor from the National Hurricane Center…
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Have a great Wednesday and take care.
I can go ahead and call this one. Widespread thunderstorms with isolated severe reports in IN, OH, and possibly northern KY. NOTHING in the Bluegrass around Lexington. Scattered storms in southern KY and eastern KY.
That’s been the story since early July, and that’s the way it’ll stay apparently.
Wow. Two Cat 4 hurricanes in the Atlantic basin at one time.
While I love the sunny, warm weather, I am hoping for rain! Yesterday’s Herald Leader article on the impending drought sounds like a very likely possibility for us.
Regardless of what the US Drought Monitor say, we are in a drought in Lexington. A deficit of an inch or more is dorught worth I would think. When the grass is brown and tree’s started losing their leaves two weeks ago I don’t think we need the goverment to tell us and make it official. When I think of Western KY I picture it as a barren wasteland. No rain and 100’s for temps.
Jake
I checked, and the last time this happened was 1926.
what was that winter like for KY? not saying thats how it works but just curios if anyone has any answers on snow totals for that winter?
We may get lucky. Some weather predictions for this winter look good for our state. Thoughts are that the active gulf leads to a warmer winter in our area. Glad to read that we may have a warm dry winter.
I am keeping my fingers crossed!
Based on the info I have. The 1920’s (as far a snowfall is concerned) was TERRIBLE! 1930s were good. 1940’s were good. 1950’s were average…1960s were GREAT…..Late 70s were great….1980s were average. 1990s were great. 2000s were about like the 1920s, though not as bad. Two years of the 20s had 20 plus inches of snows. The rest of the decade, very little. Here is a link to where I’m getting my information from.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/lmk/lexington_cli_pdf/seasonal_av_temp_total_precip_total_snow_lex.pdf
thanks and cool link! i am not quite as snow starved as i have been in the past. last winter i experienced quite alot of snow. i live about 3-4 hrs from some killer lake effect belts here in covington so i am going to drive up there in later november to experience the lake effect, take some footage and claim more snow bragging rights.
LOL! I wondered how long it would take the NWS to lower the precip chances as we get closer to the event. Was 50 percent yesterday……Now 40%…..High pressure just LOVES this area.
A grass fire consuming at least 25 acres near the Scott/Fayette County line has slowed I75 traffic all afternoon. The stench from the fire is overwhelming in my area-the asthma has flared and the eyes are burning. Praying for rain here in Georgetown tomorrow, instead of another line of storms that form 10 miles east of me.
Sorry that you are sick, CB…feel better soon!
P.S HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I’m watching Igor. Looks like it’s going through another eye replacement cycle….this storm is very large. I wouldn’t want to be living in Bermuda…it still looks like that island may get smashed…
Hope you feel better soon, Chris!