Good Tuesday everyone. Clusters of thunderstorms have been rather common across the region over the past several days and that trend is going to continue for a while. The storm clusters will actually become more common and widespread and this will lead to an increased threat for flash flooding and severe weather.
The setup remains the same… thunderstorm complexes will form across the midwest and western Ohio Valley and come riding southeastward into our region. These will bring the threat for damaging winds and torrential rains that can lead to flash flooding problems. These clusters of storms will have a TREMENDOUS amount of moisture to work with and this has me very concerned about some significant flooding issues for, at least, localized areas at any point the next few days.
The threat for severe storms and flooding is pretty widespread from the midwest into the Appalachian Mountains…
You can track the rounds of storms out there today… right here…
The latest severe map from the Storm Prediction Center (if for no other reason than pure comedy)…
Stay with the blog today as I will have updates as needed. Have a great Tuesday and take care.
“(if for no other reason than pure comedy)…”
I love this blog, Mr. Bailey. You don’t hold back! Keep up the good work…and THANKS for this gift of a website to our region.
NO! He doesn’t hold back (LOL)
Looks like another round is about to hit. I’m really starting to ignore SPC and NWS advisories as we have seen too many recent events where warnings were issued after the damage has occurred. Thanks Chris for keeping us informed.
Did you hear about the zoo that is missing some of their chimps? Been searching for these monkeys all year long.
Well, they’ve been found. They were dressed up and sitting at a desk at the SPC in Norman, OK. The Feds are going through another round of downsizing worse than what we saw in the ’90s?? 🙂
I know we are in the middle of Summer, but when do you guys think we’ll see a pattern change from this daily shot of Storms?
Did you see the story on CNN about the extreme cold in South America? Of course it’s winter there right now, but 18 people have died in Peru and Bolivia in the coldest temperatures they have had in years.
We were stuck out at the BG fair during the storm last night, thankfully not in one of the tents that blew down. The lightning was incredible. Very scary to be out in the middle of one of these storms.
Soccer or no soccer tonight? ….. the storms will answer that question.
Thanks, Chris. I am checking the blog at least 6-8 times a day, and especially when I see clouds starting to darken the least bit. Got another storm last night, and the lightning was really amazing! (Dangerous, I know, but it was pretty neat)
Looking at the radar, looks like today is gonna be a repeat of yesterday again.
Nice to know we can turn to you and the blog for timely updates.
Hi Chris (and all),
I just moved here from upstate NY last year and have been wondering, what is the weather explanation for Louisville and its surrounding area routinely being warmer than Southern KY?
Love the blog and thanks!
Louisville probably has a heat island effect from all of the concrete and paved surfaces buildings etc… and less greenspace than surrounding areas. Though someone with more knowledge might have a different explanation.
You hit the nail on the head, Louisville has a very strong Urban Heat Island effect.
Looks like we will have Bonnie by tomorrow. Appears headed for South Florida initially. Tropics are ramping up.
Well, Chris…it might not do much good…but your blog readers might fight it somewhat useful…
If the SPC won’t issue a watch, then perhaps you could outline an area that you think has the greatest potential for damaging thunderstorms within a few hour timeframe.
If you can’t do that, then I’m sure other amateur “public” people can chime in with their thoughts.
Some awareness about it is better than none..but we do have the slight risk category over us, anyhow. I’ll take it and run….lol
And I saw your map Chris..which is good,but it’s got a larger timeframe window on it, going all the way up to Thursday.
Don’t mind me, I just feel as frustrated as everyone else about the SPC lately, and I’m trying to find ways to increase awareness without having to broadcast it on the television or radio.
These events ARE tough to nail down, but it’s what these guys do..they should be doing better.
if all of you are hating the SPC so much, why dont you go and take the survey on their site. evidently they want “our feedback”. here’s the link:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/
the survey is under top news of the day at the top
Yeah..took it last week…quite a lengthy survey. 🙂
I also took it a few weeks ago. The problem with Louisville is the same thing that happens in the Cleveland office. I used to live in Canton, 60 miles away. They had no problem issuing warning for Cuyahoga County, their home county, but those of us further away never got the warnings. It is the same here, unless something happens in Louisville, then nothing is happening anywhere. I say to this day the closure of the local Weather offices has negative effected the safety of those the office was initially set up to protect.
About Louisville’s urban heat island..It puzzles me as well. MJ, I know you said the ASOS (I think that’s what it’s called) is surrounded by concrete. That said, if you look at surrounding major metro areas like Charlotte, Nashville, Indy, Raleigh and the list goes on, they never have night time warm temps as warm as Louisville. Not even close. I will look at temps at 3 am (I’m a night owl and always up late) and Louisville just doesn’t cool off at all…Charlotte has a huge airport surrounded by concrete obviously, so I would assume that should be similar. But Charlotte is about 8 degrees colder than Louisville at night….
I’ve done this a few times on my site due to spc inaction.
the spc streak continues tonight 4 tornado warnings in the ohio river valley and one confirmed tornado south of Indy. where’s the watch???
We’ve 3 different tornado warnings with these storms (I’m including SE Indiana) and nothing from the SPC. No watches, no discussion, nothing. Epic fail.
*We’ve had 3
The night time temps have little to do with urban heat isalnd and more to do with the ohio River. I really do not know why it would play such a major role but it does look at cities along major rivers (St. Louis, New Orleans, even DC) and you will notice that for the most part on the majority of nights the high temps in these cities are higher than that of cities not on major rivers.