{"id":60630,"date":"2023-09-02T00:31:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T04:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=60630"},"modified":"2023-09-02T00:31:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T04:31:06","slug":"looking-beyond-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=60630","title":{"rendered":"Looking Beyond Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday, everybody. Labor Day Weekend is in full swing and we have some decent, but very warm, weather across the Commonwealth. This looks to hang around into the middle of next week before wetter and cooler changes blow in.<\/p>\n<p>Before we move ahead, I wanted to take another look at the below normal summer we just had. Here&#8217;s a better view of the cooler than normal numbers for our region&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Temps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60637\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Temps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Temps.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Temps-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Temps-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can clearly see, much of Kentucky was right around a full 2 degrees cooler than normal for June through August.<\/p>\n<p>This helps give me a starting point in looking ahead toward the winter forecast&#8230; A wetter and cooler than normal summer as we transition from a 3 year La Nina into what looks to become a strong El Nino.\u00a0 We will soon start digging into all this here on KWC. Y&#8217;all ready?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get back to the weather of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Highs today are into the 80s with an increase in humidity levels. Some clouds will be floating around and there&#8217;s the chance for a few showers to go up across western and central Kentucky. Those look few and far between, though.<\/p>\n<p>Your friendly radars are on duty to follow whatever shows up\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-wrap\">\n<div class=\"post-content entry-content\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/builder.zoomradar.net\/zoomradar_weather_map\/weather_page.php?key=dlFZs5IY4VCw7bK\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/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#\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" usemap=\"#largemap\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Very warm temps then continue for Sunday and Labor Day and we should roll that into Tuesday. By Wednesday, some changes start to show up as the pattern gets ready to go back toward a familiar pattern of a trough in the eastern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Showers and some thunderstorms increase from the west and northwest Wednesday with a few clusters of showers and storms then hanging around into the end of the week and maybe even into next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The models are in pretty decent agreement with this setup&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>CANADIAN<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CANADIAN.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60631\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CANADIAN.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EUROPEAN<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/EURO.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60632\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/EURO.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GFS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GFS.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60635\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GFS.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That trough digging in later next week into the following weekend looks to deepen even more the following week. Watch how the ensembles go toward a big ridge up the west coast and that trough into the east&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>EURO ENSEMBLES<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/EURO-2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60633\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/EURO-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GFS ENSEMBLES<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GFS-2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60636\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GFS-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a great Saturday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Saturday, everybody. Labor Day Weekend is in full swing and we have some decent, but very warm, weather across the Commonwealth. This looks to hang around into the middle of next week before wetter and cooler changes blow in. Before we move ahead, I wanted to take another look at the below normal summer [&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-60630","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\/60630","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=60630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}