Good Monday and Happy Labor Day to one and all. Today is the day many Americans mark the end of summer in their minds and get set for fall weather. Speaking of…. we sure had a taste of fall the past few days as this was one of the best weather weekends we have had in a LONG time. Now comes a dose of reality as we have another stretch of warm weather rolling into town.

Picnics and cookouts today will be met with warmer temps as everyone sees low to mid 80s under sunny skies. Still… it should be a pretty comfy day.

If you have missed hot weather… Tuesday is the day that looks to be the hottest of the week as readings surge into the mid and upper 80s with low 90s in the west. A cold front will approach from the northwest Tuesday evening and night and will bring a broken band of showers and storms with it. This front does not have a lot of moisture to work with… so rainfall should be spotty.

The front will knock the temps down and usher in a more comfy brand of  air for Wednesday and Thursday. Highs will be in the upper 70s and lower 80s in the east and low to mid 80s west.

Warmer and more humid air will begin to fight back in later Friday into the coming weekend. This should fire up some scattered showers and thunderstorms from Friday night through Sunday. I would hate to have to break out the poncho for the first Kentucky Wildcats home game of the season out at Commonwealth Stadium. That is a possibility and the GFS shows the rain chances…

Saturday Evening


Saturday Night

Looking at the longer range pattern… a couple of things stand out to me.  1. Much better rain chances are lining up for the middle and end of the month. 2 There is a ton of cold air building up in Canada. What the latter of the two means is still to be seen… but it cant hurt the winter prospects to see that this time of year.

The tropics continue to crank up as we have a new depression down in the gulf that will likely become a storm. The good news is that it is a storm for Mexico to deal with and not the states. Here is how we look in the tropics…

TC Activity

Have a great and safe Labor Day and take care.