{"id":14480,"date":"2015-05-16T00:52:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T05:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=14480"},"modified":"2015-05-16T00:52:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T05:52:53","slug":"tracking-muggy-air-and-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=14480","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Muggy Air and Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday to one and all. This is a very tropical air mass in place across Kentucky and that&#8217;s going to cause rounds of showers and storms to fire up. With the increase in juice, these storms will likely contain a lot of lightning(LOL) and will put down torrential rains.<\/p>\n<p>While it isn&#8217;t a washout of a weekend, the storm threat appears to be a little higher than what I had thought a few days ago. Scattered storms will crank today through Monday and the latest computer model forecasts are showing some pretty decent rain totals.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the NAM through Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NAM3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14481\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NAM3.png\" alt=\"NAM\" width=\"405\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NAM3.png 405w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/NAM3-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a>Models usually struggle with rainfall totals from thunderstorms. I suspect some areas could see locally higher amounts than what&#8217;s being shown.<\/p>\n<p>What about the severe weather threat? A few strong storms could crank up through Sunday with hail and high winds possible. The best threat for a strong to severe storm may come on Monday ahead of a cold front moving through.<\/p>\n<p>That front will bring much cooler and drier air into the middle of next week.<\/p>\n<p>I have you all set to do some Saturday storm tracking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/radar-large.asp?partner=netweather&amp;traveler=0&amp;site=KY_&amp;type=SIR&amp;anim=1&amp;level=state&amp;large=1#\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" usemap=\"#largemap\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/radblast-mi.wunderground.com\/cgi-bin\/radar\/WUNIDS_map?station=PAH&amp;brand=wui&amp;num=6&amp;delay=15&amp;type=N0R&amp;frame=0&amp;scale=1.000&amp;noclutter=0&amp;t=1293824059&amp;lat=0&amp;lon=0&amp;label=you&amp;showstorms=0&amp;map.x=400&amp;map.y=240&amp;centerx=400&amp;centery=240&amp;transx=0&amp;transy=0&amp;showlabels=1&amp;severe=0&amp;rainsnow=0&amp;lightning=0&amp;smooth=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/radblast-mi.wunderground.com\/cgi-bin\/radar\/WUNIDS_map?station=LVX&amp;brand=wui&amp;num=6&amp;delay=15&amp;type=N0R&amp;frame=0&amp;scale=1.000&amp;noclutter=0&amp;t=1272129536&amp;lat=0&amp;lon=0&amp;label=you&amp;showstorms=0&amp;map.x=400&amp;map.y=240&amp;centerx=400&amp;centery=240&amp;transx=0&amp;transy=0&amp;showlabels=1&amp;severe=0&amp;rainsnow=0&amp;lightning=0&amp;smooth=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/radblast-mi.wunderground.com\/cgi-bin\/radar\/WUNIDS_map?station=JKL&amp;brand=wui&amp;num=6&amp;delay=15&amp;type=N0R&amp;frame=0&amp;scale=1.000&amp;noclutter=0&amp;t=1272129776&amp;lat=0&amp;lon=0&amp;label=you&amp;showstorms=0&amp;map.x=400&amp;map.y=240&amp;centerx=400&amp;centery=240&amp;transx=0&amp;transy=0&amp;showlabels=1&amp;severe=0&amp;rainsnow=0&amp;lightning=0&amp;smooth=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centerImage wide99\" src=\"http:\/\/gray.ftp.clickability.com\/wkytwebftp\/WEBWATCHES.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centerImage wide99\" src=\"http:\/\/gray.ftp.clickability.com\/wkytwebftp\/WEBWARNINGS.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s risk area<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/outlook\/day1otlk.html\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/outlook\/day1otlk.gif\" alt=\"Latest Day 1 convective outlook\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make it a great day and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday to one and all. This is a very tropical air mass in place across Kentucky and that&#8217;s going to cause rounds of showers and storms to fire up. With the increase in juice, these storms will likely contain a lot of lightning(LOL) and will put down torrential rains. While it isn&#8217;t a washout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}