{"id":72276,"date":"2025-08-25T00:51:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=72276"},"modified":"2025-08-25T01:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:38:54","slug":"record-lows-a-good-bet-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=72276","title":{"rendered":"Record Lows a Good Bet This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday, everyone. It&#8217;s a true taste of fall weather taking hold of the Commonwealth this week. This pattern delivers well below normal temperatures and may even bring some record lows to much of our region.<\/p>\n<p>This is a setup that&#8217;s been well advertised for a while now. The pattern is actually putting the coldest temperatures in relation from normal across the entire Northern Hemisphere right on top of Kentucky and surrounding areas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TEMP-DEPARTURES-FROM-NORMAL-THIS-WEEK.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72280\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TEMP-DEPARTURES-FROM-NORMAL-THIS-WEEK.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"967\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TEMP-DEPARTURES-FROM-NORMAL-THIS-WEEK.png 967w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TEMP-DEPARTURES-FROM-NORMAL-THIS-WEEK-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TEMP-DEPARTURES-FROM-NORMAL-THIS-WEEK-768x602.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 967px) 100vw, 967px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty wild to see in the month of August.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight lows this week are generally in the upper 40s to low 50s and that&#8217;s exactly where record lows are for many locations. For Lexington, the best chance to tie or break a record low comes Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Here&#8217;s a look at the numbers we have to hit:<\/p>\n<h2>August 26th: 48\u00a0 \u00a01945<\/h2>\n<h2>August 27th: 49\u00a0 \u00a01968<\/h2>\n<h2>August 28th: 50\u00a0 \u00a01986<\/h2>\n<p>Fun Fact: July and August are the only two months that have never recorded temps in the 30s in Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the model forecasts, they drop into the upper 40s which makes me wonder if we can get a few of the colder valleys to drop into the middle 40s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GFS-2-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72282\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GFS-2-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"961\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GFS-2-4.png 961w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GFS-2-4-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GFS-2-4-768x603.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GFS-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72283\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GFS-11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"957\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GFS-11.png 957w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GFS-11-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GFS-11-768x608.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Highs this week are in the 70s with super low humidity levels and dry skies.<\/p>\n<p>The potential is there for a slow-moving system to bring some rain in here at some point late in the upcoming Labor Day Weekend. The GFS is the most enthusiastic with this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GFS-17.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72284\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GFS-17.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That would come with below normal temps and that may keep rolling through the first week of September as another trough settles into the eastern half of the country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>EURO<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/EURO-19.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72277\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/EURO-19.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EURO ENSEMBLES<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/EURO-2-9.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72278\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/EURO-2-9.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In terms of the tropics, we continue to watch Fernand as a fish storm with the system coming in underneath that trying to sneak into the Caribbean&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/xgtwo\/two_atl_7d0.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have a magnificent Monday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Monday, everyone. It&#8217;s a true taste of fall weather taking hold of the Commonwealth this week. This pattern delivers well below normal temperatures and may even bring some record lows to much of our region. This is a setup that&#8217;s been well advertised for a while now. The pattern is actually putting the coldest [&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-72276","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\/72276","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=72276"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72290,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72276\/revisions\/72290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}