Good Wednesday everyone. Rounds of thunderstorms have been bringing flooding rains and severe weather to parts of northern and northeastern Kentucky overnight. As of this update… extensive flash flooding was ongoing from Maysville to Ashland and many areas in between and nearby. The flash flooding is life threatening in some areas and I will have updates as I get them.
Olive Hill in Carter County was devestated by flooding this past May and has been hit hard yet again. Here is a pic of the local Speedway…
The setup today argues for more of the same across the state as a frontal boundary settles in from the north. Clusters of heavy rain producing storms will roll across Kentucky. These will likely lead to more high water problems. It is tough to pinpoint exactly where these areas will be… but I feel safe in saying we have an increased risk for flash flooding across Kentucky today.
Track the storms here…
You can track the rain totals through the near real time Kentucky Mesonet locations across the state…
A couple of notes about the rest of the forecast…
– Scattered storms will be with us again Thursday and these could also bring some local high water concerns.
– The heat will be on for Friday and Saturday as temps hit the 90s. The humidity levels will be very high as well!
– A cold front will being some booming thunderstorms to us from late Saturday into Sunday. Some cooler air will also move in.
– A system in the Caribbean is trying to fire up into a Tropical Depression and could become Bonnie as it heads toward Florida.
I will have updates on today’s storms and flooding potential as needed. You can also get rapid updates from me through Twitter… @Kentuckyweather . These also appear in the top right hand corner of the blog.
Have a great day and take care.
Henry
I think you may be right. I never thought about the Ohio river but that is true. All of those cities along major rivers seem to be just nasty hot even at night. Sort of strange to look at Louisville at 3 am being warmer than say, Atlanta or Columbia. Funny I never notice this with Cincinnati though. It’s on the river.
Cincy’s airport is located above the river valley and is surrounded by fields and woods. L’ville’s is surrounded by highways and buildings so you have a huge urban heat island effect.
Cincy also has a station downtown, and it never registers as hot as Louisville.
I’m keeping a close eye on that “vigorous tropical wave” just do our south. I’m in The Bahamas running a mission camp, and may have to adjust our schedule depending on what it does. If anyone has any input, please post it. I want to give the teams as much ministry time as possible, but I also want to keep them safe.
Hopefully it will become category 5 Bonnie. I want to see Cantore getting blown around on the sand a little bit. It would also give the BP story a little flavor again. Boring weather is… well… boring.
Anybody have rain totals for this morning? Both of my gauges were broken in the past week. Judging by the roaring creek down the hill, my eastern part of Bourbon County has had well over two inches since 4:30 this morning.
A little over 1 1\4 inches in NW Lex
The new Mesonet site in Lewis County read 6.76″ of rain since midnight when I left the house this morning, and now it says 13.53″.
HOUSE IS DARK IN SOUTH NICHOLASVILLE. ACUTALLY FELT FOR WORK EARLY, SINCE NO MORNING TV 🙂 . POLICE DIRECTING TRAFFIC AT US 27 AND 169. LIGHTS ON FLASH. THIS WAS ALL AS OF ABOUT 8:45AM…
LEFT NOT FELT…IM TIRED, CAN’T TYPE…LOL
It looks like one of the automated rain gauges is showing over 13 inches of rain along the OH River in NE KY. Is that an accurate reading?
As long as it becomes a CAT 5 after it passes over us. The team goes home on Saturday, one intern goes home on Sunday, the other on Monday, and I fly into LEX on Tuesday. I just wish it would decide what it wants to do, so I can plan accordingly.
Hopefully it won’t become a Cat 5 for Teacher Nate’s sake would hate for something to happen to one of our bloggers
The Moderation Monster swallowed my earlier comment, but the reading jumped from 6.76″ to 13.53″ while I drove in to work this morning, so it’s not correct. 6.76″ is probably accurate (and amazingly so).
Crazy flooding here in the Waynesburg area. Glad to see that the national weather service is on top of it. 😉
I had said something similar to this earlier but got moderated….at least not till after it goes over us.
Here at my house we got 0.72″ this morning. We could have gotten more but again I don’t think the gauges get the rain if it is horizontal.
Jake
I’ve had enough of this weather.
You and me both, September can’t get here fast enough..
Everyone from Owensboro to E-town south and east to Middlesboro, alot of training going on since early this morning, could be a serious flooding situation setting up as some have posted already…
So you guys enjoy when it’s so dry that the grass turns crunchy, the leaves curl up and fall off the Maples 3 months early, and the heat becomes unbearable??
Not me…that was getting OLD. Thank God for this wetter pattern.
Anyone found any links to a long range 2010-2011 winter forecast. I know it is just late July, but I am ready for some snow!please post if anyone has any info
Chris gave his long range winter forecast a week or so ago on the blog; basically early, chilly winter and wet, warmer later on in the season towards spring
I would appreciate you not putting words in my mouth, WxMan. I have NEVER said that I am happy with unbearable heat or any sort of drought conditions. I just do not think it needs to rain every other day for us to survive. I wonder if the folks in Pike and Carter counties think like you do.