Good Wednesday everyone and thanks for dropping in on the blog. After another day in the 90s Tuesday… a much better brand of air is moving in for today and will stick around for the rest of the week. That is wonderful news for those of us who are fans of true September weather. 
A cold front is sagging southward today across the Tennessee Valley. This front may still touch off a scattered shower early today across our southern counties. The rest of the state will see skies becoming partly to mostly sunny as northwesterly winds settle back in and these can be rather gusty at times. Highs today will range from the upper 70s to lower 80s.
The rest of the forecast looks like this…
The really nice weather will move in for Thursday and Friday as cooler air moves in. This will likely keep temps in the 70s for highs for much of the region both days. Here is how the NAM temp forecast looks like for these days…
You can see the big temp spread showing up across the region for Friday as a warm front swings northeastward through the Ohio Valley. Temps south of this boundary will head toward 90 degrees… to the north… highs will stay in the 70s. If we can get any band of clouds or showers along the warm front… temps will be even cooler over a localized area.
The warmer temps will move back in this weekend and will bring an increase in humidity levels and the threat for scattered showers and thunderstorms. This is likely to impact the UK-WKU football game in Lexington Saturday evening. The GFS shows a nice band of showers and storms rolling into town…
The rains will push east of the area into the day Sunday with highs over the weekend topping out in the lower and middle 80s. Looking farther down the road… Next week looks to start with temps in the 80s and end with a decent cooling trend.
Have a great Wednesday and take care.
Love the fall weather. What became of all the tropical storms lining up in the Atlantic after Earl?
Of course, not a drop of rain at our house. It got dark, wind blew, and then nothing. Absolutely nothing. Now I guess we hold out hope that Hermine really will head this way and give us some rain Friday. I don’t care if it rains all day and all night long. Our yard is a dust bowl! You walk through it and your feet are covered in dust.
…and then there was one. Belski is now gone and is discontinuing his weather blog. Chris, my man, it’s all up to you now. We only have you to deliver us from the wilderness of lazy forecasting and crazy computer models.
Very sad to know that Belski is gone. He was a staple of Louisville. I have a good photo of him and I in the WAVE3 weathercenter circa 1999 or so.
As for Saturday…a muddy, sloppy football game would be AWESOME! WKU!!
I’ll miss Belski’s blog. It was nice having a watchful eye on the western flank. By the way, looks like Lee Todd is announcing he is stepping down at a 3:00 news conference today.
Wow. Looking at the GFS as far as precip is concerned,it looks like the southeastern ridge dominates kentucky for most of the month. Well hopefully the ridge will break down in time for winter.
Are they still searching for a way to televise that game?
Is there anyone here who actually thinks we will get any rain from Hermine?
The bird droppings on my deck are about the only thing that has fallen from the sky in the past 6 weeks around here.