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Good Monday to one and all and welcome to yet another active spring week in the bluegrass state. It has been an incredibly active severe weather pattern so far and that looks to continue this week with a few rounds of strong and severe storms a pretty good bet.

The action may get cranking later today into tonight as a warm front lifts northward through the Ohio Valley. This will likely produce a few clusters of thunderstorms along it. It looks like today’s action will be isolated and mainly in the northern counties. The chance for more organized storms will be this evening into early Tuesday and this will include much of the region. Some of these could be strong or severe with locally heavy rains.

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That brings us to later Tuesday into Wednesday and what appears to be another big time severe weather outbreak from the midwest into the Ohio Valley. Here is where the Storm Prediction Center will be watching…

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The setup will find low pressure developing across the plains and heading toward the northern Ohio Valley late Tuesday into Wednesday. Ahead of this low… moisture will be surging northward and humidity levels around here will be on the rise. Check out the impressive dewpoint temps for late Tuesday…



That is one major ingredient you need for severe weather. Another is instability and the GFS is showing lifted indices between -5 and -9 for most of our region during the same time…



One thing the storms will likely have to overcome will be a fairly strong Cap that may be in place. That’s kind of like placing a lid on a boiling pot as it acts to help suppress thunderstorm development.

There is a new site I recently found that will find the 15 best analogs to a particular upcoming setup. This uses the NAM forecast model as the basis. The map below shows the severe weather reports from the 15 best matches to what the NAM run has been showing for Tuesday and Tuesday night…



Looking farther down the road… another system looks to bring more rounds of storms our way starting Friday into the upcoming Easter Weekend. The hits just keep on coming.

On a related note… many areas are likely to see this April go down as one of the wettest on record. Lexington is already up to the 6th wettest April ever and we still have nearly 2 weeks to go.

I will update as needed so check back. Have a great Monday and take care.
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