Good Thursday everyone. We are back into another stretch of awesome September weather across the state and this will likely carry many areas into the start of the weekend. For those playing along at home… are you noticing how much different the weather pattern has been over the past week? This is a sign of things to come.

Today is going to be nothing short of great as temps settle into the middle 70s for highs for a lot of folks. A nice breeze will accompany mostly sunny skies to help make this a day to get out and take full advantage of. There will be some high clouds that will wonder across our sky from time to time. Across the west… clouds will be a little thicker as some showers and isolated storms move in.

The full forecast looks like this…

Friday will be an interesting weather day across the state as a warm front works in from the southwest. This will combine with a disturbance and moisture from what is left of Tropical Storm Hermine to produce showers and storms across the west. This will roll eastward into central Kentucky during the day and will likely get eaten alive by the drier air in place. This is going to make for some wild temp swings. Follow me on this one… areas to the east will see partly sunny skies with temps well into the 70s for highs. A narrow ribbon of real estate somewhere across west central Kentucky will likely get in on some decent overcast and some diminishing showers leading to temps that may not get to 70. Farther west… temps will make a run toward 90 on the south side of the warm front. Confused yet? Don’t worry… you’re not alone.

That brings us to the weekend and a big increase in humidity levels ahead of a cold front approaching from the west on Saturday. This will mean showers and thunderstorms will develop from west to east through the day and some will bring locally heavy rains. This does not bode well for the Kentucky – Western Kentucky football game in Lexington Saturday evening. I am dusting off my poncho and the GFS says that is a wise idea…

Saturday Evening

The rains will move away early Sunday leaving us with a decent day with highs generally in the upper 70s to around 80 to round out the weekend.

The middle and end of next week is likely to feature a heck of a chilly shot of air taking up residence across much of the eastern half of the country and that includes where we live. This should easily be the coolest of the young season and has a shot to bring some lows near 40 with it and daytime highs in the 60s. Again… I say a shot because we are still several days away. I have been talking about this nice buildup of cold air in Canada for a few weeks now… and these fronts are tapping into that reservoir of chill as they dive southward into the states.

You can see that well here on the European Model for Wednesday morning…

The chilly air would then stay with us through the end of next week as we await what could be an even cooler shot of air coming in the following weekend into the first part of the week or the 20th. The fall thoughts the blog put out there back in early August are looking good right now as the threat for some very nice chilly shots is increased in the coming weeks.

Have a great Thursday and take care.