WKU Meteorology

After a rather chilly beginning to the week, we should expect some showers and thunderstorms to move into the area overnight Thursday and into Friday. (more…)

If you’ve stepped outside yet today, you’ll notice one very obvious thing:  the warm and humid airmass that has lingered for nearly two weeks now over the area has finally moved out. (more…)

For the second time in 2009, Bowling Green recorded rain on at least seven consecutive days. The recent consecutive rainfall streak, which ended September 26th, reached 10 days, which tied for the longest in history. (more…)

Today I have for your viewing pleasure my thoughts on the upcoming winter and a quick look at what might happen this weekend. For those of you waiting for a fall pattern i’ll show you when the first sign of it will be. (more…)

1. The majority of us in the mid south have seen periods of storms over the weekend, just enough to cancel those late afternoon and evening outdoor plans for some. However, Sunday night our friends to the north in Louisville saw the training of thunderstorms from south to north across the metro area and with rainfall rates over an inch an hour.  This led to rapid rises in streams, creeks and other collectors of water. This was labeled a flash flood emergency by the NWS in Louisville with several water rescues.  The forecast for this week is also included in this post. (more…)

A quick little introduction about myself before we get to the good stuff and discuss the weather for the weekend. (more…)

Within the next few days regular posts will resume on the WKU weather blog. Dr.Goodrich will still be a main contributor however quite a few of the posts will now be done by his students. Thank you for having the WKU weatherblog as one of your sources for weather information.

Mitchell Gaines