{"id":14681,"date":"2015-06-11T00:51:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T04:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=14681"},"modified":"2015-06-11T00:51:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T04:51:50","slug":"muggy-air-leads-to-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=14681","title":{"rendered":"Muggy Air Leads To Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday to one and all. We have one heck of a humid stretch of weather on the way to the bluegrass state.\u00a0 This tropical air will be joined by <strong>seasonally<\/strong> hot temps (at times) and the increasing threat for showers and thunderstorms. It&#8217;s a pattern locking in for a while.<\/p>\n<p>One of the ways we measure the amount of moisture in the atmosphere is through the dewpoint temperature. Generally speaking, anything above 65 is rather humid. Once above 70, things really start to get juicy and oppressive.<\/p>\n<p>Our dewpoint numbers hit the low 70s at times over the next few days and that&#8217;s a sign of things to come. Check out the tropical moisture kicking in this weekend through next week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GFS2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14683\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GFS2.png\" alt=\"GFS\" width=\"355\" height=\"1174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GFS2.png 355w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GFS2-91x300.png 91w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GFS2-310x1024.png 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/a>You can see how the tropical connection coming from the western Gulf of Mexico. With a developing heat wave to our south, that&#8217;s going to put our region in a zone with seasonally hot and humid weather with rounds of storms. It&#8217;s a zone that crank out some healthy clusters of thunderstorms that put down tremendous amounts of rains for some.<\/p>\n<p>The European Model is showing this threat well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Euro4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14684\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Euro4.png\" alt=\"Euro\" width=\"728\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Euro4.png 728w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Euro4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Euro4-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s something to keep a close eye on as we roll forward.<\/p>\n<p>How about the weekend forecast? Scattered showers and storms will be around with steamy temps. Sunny days where you live means 90 or so. A storm goes up and you can forget about even being close to 90.<\/p>\n<p>The threat for storms actually begins today with some isolated stuff out there. Temps will be around 90 for many. Track away&#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\" class=\"full-wide\" src=\"http:\/\/gray.ftp.clickability.com\/wkytwebftp\/WEBTEMPS_STATE_650.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have a good one and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday to one and all. We have one heck of a humid stretch of weather on the way to the bluegrass state.\u00a0 This tropical air will be joined by seasonally hot temps (at times) and the increasing threat for showers and thunderstorms. It&#8217;s a pattern locking in for a while. One of the ways [&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-14681","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\/14681","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=14681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}