{"id":29998,"date":"2018-05-13T02:22:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T06:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=29998"},"modified":"2018-05-13T02:22:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T06:22:13","slug":"record-highs-before-a-stormy-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=29998","title":{"rendered":"Record Highs Before A Stormy Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Sunday and Happy Mother&#8217;s Day to all the mommas out there. Record setting mid-May heat has arrived across parts of the bluegrass state. This surge of Summer lasts into the early part of the week ahead, but rounds of thunderstorms will kick into high gear, bringing a heavy rain threat.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s begin with out Mother&#8217;s Day and roll forward. Highs today will generally range from the upper 80s to low 90s across the state, with several record highs going down. There is the chance for a few strong storms going up across the region late today into this evening. The best chance is across the northern half of the state&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/public\/state\/images\/KY_swody1.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Monday looks similar to today with upper 80s and low 90s. Scattered showers and storms will be noted, with the potential for a few strong or locally severe storms.\u00a0 The threat for storms will then increase through the week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=30003\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30003\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30003\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GFS-GIf-7.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rain totals for the next few weeks continue to be impressive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?attachment_id=30004\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30004\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30004\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GFS-Rain-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1072\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GFS-Rain-4.png 1072w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GFS-Rain-4-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GFS-Rain-4-768x540.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GFS-Rain-4-1024x720.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1072px) 100vw, 1072px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are your tracking toys for the day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/public\/state\/images\/KY_swody2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are your Mother&#8217;s Day tracking tools&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/builder.zoomradar.net\/zoomradar_weather_map\/weather_page.php?key=9nNfA2mOMDiJ4LG\" width=\"560\" height=\"462\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Sunday and Happy Mother&#8217;s Day to all the mommas out there. Record setting mid-May heat has arrived across parts of the bluegrass state. This surge of Summer lasts into the early part of the week ahead, but rounds of thunderstorms will kick into high gear, bringing a heavy rain threat. Let&#8217;s begin with out [&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-29998","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\/29998","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=29998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}