{"id":65694,"date":"2024-07-22T00:50:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=65694"},"modified":"2024-07-22T00:50:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:50:34","slug":"scattered-showers-and-storms-start-a-stormy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=65694","title":{"rendered":"Scattered Showers and Storms Start a Stormy Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday to one and all. It&#8217;s the last full week of July and we are starting things out with more in the way of scattered showers and storms. This is becoming a common pattern across the state and that remains this week as our temps check in below normal.<\/p>\n<p>Just like what we had over the weekend, periods of showers and storms will be coming at us from the south and southwest today. Any of these storms can put down torrential rains that can cause local high water issues.<\/p>\n<p>One or two storms may even pulse to severe levels for a hot minute.<\/p>\n<p>Here are your radars to follow today&#8217;s rain makers\u2026<\/p>\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<p>Additional showers and storms come at us each day this week, but that does NOT mean it rains at your house each day. Y&#8217;all got that? Good.<\/p>\n<p>All of this comes as an upper level system hangs from the Ohio Valley into the lower Mississippi Valley and southern Plains states. The 5 day average 500mb height anomaly map shows this well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-3-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65699\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-3-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-3-1.png 965w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-3-1-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-3-1-768x601.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not exactly a very Summer-like looking pattern and the end result is much cooler than normal temps through the week. Those 5 day averages are impressive for the eastern half of the country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-TEMPS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65697\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-TEMPS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"963\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-TEMPS.png 963w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-TEMPS-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-TEMPS-768x602.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 963px) 100vw, 963px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you recall, the EURO Weeklies from 2 week ago starting locking onto a wetter pattern and the operational models are showing this well. Here&#8217;s the GFS for the next 2 weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-2-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65695\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-2-1.png 960w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-2-1-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-2-1-768x606.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The smoothed-out averages from the GFS Ensembles show this similar look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65696\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-6.png 965w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-6-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GFS-6-768x605.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a happy Monday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday to one and all. It&#8217;s the last full week of July and we are starting things out with more in the way of scattered showers and storms. This is becoming a common pattern across the state and that remains this week as our temps check in below normal. Just like what we had [&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-65694","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\/65694","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=65694"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65702,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65694\/revisions\/65702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}