{"id":71700,"date":"2025-06-26T01:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=71700"},"modified":"2025-06-26T01:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:19:29","slug":"a-few-strong-storms-join-the-heat-and-humidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=71700","title":{"rendered":"A Few Strong Storms Join the Heat and Humidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday, everyone. The steamy beat rolls on out there today with heat and humidity leading to a few showers and storms going up. The overall setup continues to trend more toward stormy in the coming days as the temps slowly start to drop.<\/p>\n<p>Temps out there today reach the upper 80s to low 90s on average with the traditional hot spots doing it a little better than that. Humidity levels keep the heat index numbers into the upper 90s to low 100s.<\/p>\n<p>A few scattered storms will go up once again and these will be loaded with lightning and torrential rains. The Storm Prediction Center even has a Marginal Risk for a few severe storms across eastern Kentucky&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/partners\/outlooks\/state\/images\/KY_swody1.png?1750881756\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More storms show up during the afternoon and evening hours on Friday and the Storm Prediction Center has another Marginal Risk for severe storms across central and eastern Kentucky&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/partners\/outlooks\/state\/images\/KY_swody2.png?1750829413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scattered showers and storms crank up this weekend and really increase more for Monday and Tuesday as a cold front sweeps through to begin the month of July. Drying conditions look to follow that as cooler air moves in for Wednesday and Thursday of next week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/EURO-15.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71702\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/EURO-15.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Temps should be pretty pleasant for early July, but can we hold off the storms for the 4th? That&#8217;s what we are hoping for, but the potential for storms will crash back in around the 4th or, perhaps, just after. Watch how the EURO brings clusters of showers and storms dropping in here from the northwest from late on the 4th into the following week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/EURO-2-9.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71703\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/EURO-2-9.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That run of the EURO is seeing some hefty rain totals over the next few weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/EURO-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71704\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/EURO-14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"967\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/EURO-14.png 967w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/EURO-14-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/EURO-14-768x604.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 967px) 100vw, 967px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is something the GFS Extended is seeing for much of July as it continues to show above normal rains around here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GFS-20.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71706\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GFS-20.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"963\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GFS-20.png 963w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GFS-20-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GFS-20-768x602.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 963px) 100vw, 963px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your daily dose of heat and storm tracking tools&#8230;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/x-hv1.pivotalweather.com\/maps\/warnings\/nwshaz.us_ov.png\" \/><\/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><strong>Current watches<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/validww.png\" alt=\"Current Watches\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/validww.png\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Possible Watch Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/validmd.png\" alt=\"Current MDs\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/validmd.png\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make it a great Thursday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday, everyone. The steamy beat rolls on out there today with heat and humidity leading to a few showers and storms going up. The overall setup continues to trend more toward stormy in the coming days as the temps slowly start to drop. Temps out there today reach the upper 80s to low 90s [&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-71700","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\/71700","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=71700"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71710,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71700\/revisions\/71710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}