Good Thursday everyone. Remember this past weekend when the blog headlined with Heat Wave Coming? Well… we weren’t kidding as the temps this week have been the hottest of what has been a very hot summer. Guess what? The week isn’t over and the heat just does NOT want to go away.
The humidity levels will continue to run sky high yet again and this will take our feel like temp into the danger category for a few more days. Highs today into Friday will be back into the 90s once again. Some areas in the western half of the state will head toward 100 once again. How high the temp gets at your house will depend on if you get some clouds or a scattered storm. The heat index will likely hit the 100-110 range… if not higher in the west.
Track the heat here…
Current Temps
Heat Index
Today’s Highs
A few afternoon and evening thunderstorms will be with us once again and these can provide some relief from the torrid temps. Whatever is out there will show up here…
The weekend is likely to start blazing hot once again on Saturday with more of the same. It is Sunday that will find a front dropping in from the northwest. This will likely bring more widespread showers and thunderstorms to the region. It should also bring in MUCH cooler air for next week. 
The problem with the setup for next week is it could end up being a rather stormy one before all is said and done. The front may stall out just near our part of the world with tropical moisture moving northward from the Gulf of Mexico. That will have to be watched.
Have a great day and take care.
We got a whole 0.01″ at my house. It’s like I would have rather had nothing at all. I wonder if the US Drought Monitor this morning will show us in some kind of drought. Last week it did not.
Jake
I didn’t realize that the Jackson NWS and Wilmington NWS had lower temp criteria for a heat advisory…..I mean…..WHY??? We’re all human. We are all comfortable in the 68 to 74 degree range. If your in Cincinnati they will issue a warning/advisory if the heat index temp is expected to get between 100 and 104, yet the Louisville NWS says 105 or higher. I thought it was all the same criteria everywhere for heat.
0% chance. Maybe if Lexington doesn’t get any rain for the next month…maybe.
That’s funny because I checked the Drought Monitor too. I figured we’d be in low level drought already. Western KY is in mid-level drought. We haven’t had any good rain here at my place (20 mi. from LEX) since early July!
I amazingly never knew this either until about 2 years ago. I’m like you…it makes NO sense whatsoever to have different criteria. 110 degrees is 110 degrees. Period. I got a well-explained reason why from the NWS after I asked about that…but it still makes no sense. They have to be consistent with other offices with temps/precip…so why not advisory criteria??
well I missed out on the rain yesterday as well… I’m starting to feel like Wxman because it POURED only 2 miles away from me yesterday, enough to run the ditch lines full, but yet I only got a few sprinkles…:( I guess its back to watering with the waterhose again.. and the dreaded brown grass…oh well fall cant come soon enough..:)
Chris, I see no problem with a wet, stormy week ahead. This heat has got to go away.
How many Heat advisories/warnings does this make us this summer..? Its certainly been more than I can ever recall. What’s the record? 2010 has been a year of extremes starting out with Brutal cold and then ridiculous heat. I hope this fall provides us with some degree of normalcy.. can’t wait for those crisp 68 degree days!
I think it is funny they are under even the low-level drought. I know they have been hotter but haven’t they seen more rain than the Lexington area? Another few days and the tree’s will start to lose their leaves like they did back at the end of June. The Birch Tree’s were the worst during that time and some looked almost bald.
Jake
Here at my house I have recorded 37 days at or above 90f. That does include today because it is 89f right now and we will hit 90f soon. I need some fall in my life.
Jake
If the entire months of September and October are nothing but 70s for highs and frequent t-storms…I’d be as happy as a June Bug.
70s for highs and 1 inch of rain a week does me good. You can have too much of a good thing.
Madison County, with the exception of Berea, has probably seen right around three quarters to 1 inch of rainfall this entire month so far. We’re about, what 30 % of normal, then?
I’m not holding my breath for any rain today, either. The last two “Storms” that came through here did nothing more than leave sprinkles.
Wow, what a storm! We’re having thunder, lightening, and heavy rain.
Hazard.
Thunder Lightning, wind and Heavey rain now on Clark , Fayette CO line US 60….Was just getting ready to get in pool 🙁
It literally skipped right over us. Wow. The “abnormally dry” part of the state is getting more rain like they do daily.
Jake
In the past 30 days Lexington has recieved over 5 inches of rain and Paducah got 0.18. 90 days was something like 13 inches compared to 6. As for your trees, Birch’s like water but if they died anytime this year it had nothing to do with lack of water. It would take a 2007 type drought to do that and not the normal dry August weather that we are seeing.
WXMAN
If you happen to get this……What was the well explained reason they gave you. I’d love to hear that.
A storm to our west on Monday, a storm to our south yesterday, and storm to our east today. A week without rain in 90 degree temps can do quite a bit to soil moisture. Just remember that.
Basically, what they tried to say is that people who live in regions where the weather is usually hotter are therefore more “used” to it. People who live in rural areas where it’s never as hot are not “used” to it being so hot. Therefore, rural areas were given a lower threshold for meeting heat advisory criteria.
Personally, I think it’s a crock of (insert your choice). I don’t have room here to explain all the reasons why.
dont feel bad, its happened to me to this week all around me… something wrong about getting txt alerts of severe thunderstorms, and flash flooding just a couple counties away, while I’ve spent an hour or so watering the lawn…oh well thats how it goes though..
It’s amazing to me that there would be different criteria for any kind of warning. I don’t recall heat stroke behaving any differently in Montana than it does in Florida…wow. Never thought that would actually ever be an issue.
Lol, yeah. How bout watching it pour less than 1/4 mile away from you and you got a quick shower? That happened to me yesterday. Stood on my porch and watched it. Going to drag out the waterhose again tomorrow and water my pitiful garden for the 3rd time this week.
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