{"id":77883,"date":"2026-06-19T01:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=77883"},"modified":"2026-06-19T01:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:36:20","slug":"awesome-temps-continue-ahead-of-another-stormy-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=77883","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Temps Continue Ahead of Another Stormy Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday, everyone. As we celebrate Juneteenth, much better air continues to take control of our weather. Calm and cooler than normal will be with us into much of the weekend before more in the way of storms return, just in time for Father&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>The flooding rains and severe weather from early Thursday gave us some wild numbers. Some areas picked up more than 6&#8243; of rain with quite a bit of wind damage. The wildest number came from the Kentucky Mesonet site in Mason County as it\u00a0 recorded at wind gust of 114mph. Yes, the Mesonet folks verified this at 114mph&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mason-Co-114mph-gust-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77884\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mason-Co-114mph-gust-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mason-Co-114mph-gust-2.png 798w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mason-Co-114mph-gust-2-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mason-Co-114mph-gust-2-768x520.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mason-Co-114mph-gust.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77885\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mason-Co-114mph-gust.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mason-Co-114mph-gust.png 684w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mason-Co-114mph-gust-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That came as a severe storm, and likely tornado, slammed the Maysville area. Severe damage was reported in a swath throughout Mason County. The NWS did not have a tornado warning out and have been surveying the damage there.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s weather is calm with pleasant temps hitting the upper 70s to around 80 with a mix of sun and clouds. High 70s to low 80s will be common for Saturday with a few clouds rolling in and just the slightest chance for a stray shower or storm going up in the north and west.<\/p>\n<p>Temps for Father&#8217;s Day spike a little more as scattered showers and storms fire back up. This is ahead of a storm system developing across the Plains and sweeping into the Great Lakes early next week.<\/p>\n<p>The future radar from the RRFS shows some pretty good thunderstorm clusters rolling through here from Sunday afternoon through 8am Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/RRFS.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77887\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/RRFS.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We may also wind up with a low-end severe storms risk for Sunday. Here&#8217;s what the Storm Prediction Center is thinking for Father&#8217;s Day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/partners\/outlooks\/state\/images\/KY_swody3.png?1781811485\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Torrential rains will also be possible with these storms from late Sunday into Monday. The potential for high water issues is there and the Weather Prediction Center is highlighting the potential for these two days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/exper\/eromap\/statemaps\/KY_Day3.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/exper\/eromap\/statemaps\/KY_Day4.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All of this may turn into that slow-moving upper level system that keeps cool and damp weather throughout much of next week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Canadian-3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77890\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Canadian-3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mean&#8230; does anything about this upper level map look like the last full week of June???<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Canadian-2-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77889\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Canadian-2-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a fantastic Friday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday, everyone. As we celebrate Juneteenth, much better air continues to take control of our weather. Calm and cooler than normal will be with us into much of the weekend before more in the way of storms return, just in time for Father&#8217;s Day. The flooding rains and severe weather from early Thursday gave [&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-77883","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\/77883","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=77883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77891,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77883\/revisions\/77891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}