{"id":72238,"date":"2025-08-22T00:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=72238"},"modified":"2025-08-22T00:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:39:06","slug":"a-big-blast-of-fall-on-the-way-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=72238","title":{"rendered":"A Big Blast of Fall on the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday, everyone. We continue to gear up for a big time blast of early fall weather across the state as we head into the closing days of August. This blast is coming on the heels of the pretty darn nice weather we have out there to start the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Temps over the past few days have been below normal for many areas with today finding temps getting closer to the normal middle 80s. Skies look good and this bodes well for high school football action this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday will find temps going up a few more degrees on a strong southwest wind. There&#8217;s also a plume of moisture creating showers and storms across areas of southern and eastern Kentucky with the potential for some locally heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an outside shot for some local high water issues and the WPC is highlighting this low-end threat for Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WPC-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72242\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WPC-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1173\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WPC-1.png 1173w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WPC-1-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WPC-1-1024x762.png 1024w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WPC-1-768x572.png 768w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WPC-1-1080x804.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1173px) 100vw, 1173px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With our big fall cold front sweeping in on Sunday, it&#8217;s time to upgrade to a full blown Pumpkin Spice ALERT&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4-MAP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72243\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4-MAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4-MAP.jpg 905w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4-MAP-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4-MAP-768x429.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This big dip in the jet stream keeps our highs mainly in the 70s for most of next week. Overnight lows will drop to around 50 on more than one occasion with the chance for a few upper 40s in the traditional cool spot.<\/p>\n<p>We aren&#8217;t alone in this late September feel as this blast takes up residence for much of the country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-MAP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72240\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-MAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-MAP.jpg 900w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-MAP-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-MAP-768x435.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The weather for Labor Day Weekend may be in between troughs, and this could bring a wet weather maker into our region.<\/p>\n<p>The models continue to go toward another trough in the east for early September&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/EURO-16.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72241\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/EURO-16.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would be nice to get a cutoff system or two in here as that would help bring us some rain.<\/p>\n<p>To the tropics we go and there&#8217;s good news with Hurricane Erin as this storm continues to rapidly pull away from the eastern seaboard&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov\/GOES19\/ABI\/SECTOR\/eus\/13\/GOES19-EUS-13-1000x1000.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look where this storm winds up in the coming days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/storm_graphics\/AT05\/refresh\/AL052025_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png\/112043_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png\" alt=\"cone graphic\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Additional systems may develop behind Erin over the next few days, but none look threatening at the moment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/xgtwo\/two_atl_7d0.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Make it a fantastic Friday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday, everyone. We continue to gear up for a big time blast of early fall weather across the state as we head into the closing days of August. This blast is coming on the heels of the pretty darn nice weather we have out there to start the weekend. Temps over the past few [&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-72238","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\/72238","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=72238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72247,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72238\/revisions\/72247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}