Category Archives: Kentucky Weather

Hightlights Warming trend through the weekend Partly sunny with a small chance of rain Forecast The weekend weather is shaping up to be a nice one! The cut-off low that has been dominating our weather this week with cloudy skies … Continue reading →

Highlights Upper level low continues to hang over the mid south bringing cool temps and rain chances for the rest of the week. Precipitation should become more scattered in nature tomorrow evening through the rest of the work week. I … Continue reading →

As classes return at WKU, so does our blog, with Meteorology/Geography students actively blogging at least three times a week. The blog will return to its native format such as from spring semester, where students will post on current weather, … Continue reading →

By: Lindsay Rice We left Hannibal, MO around 8am on Wednesday morning. The group reflected on the trip for a majority of the way home. We reminisced about the experience and shared pictures and videos. We dropped Dr. Dixon off … Continue reading →

Posted by: Kate Wilson Today seemed like the last promising chase day of the trip. The setup involved a surface low in the northern central plains, with a warm front situated west to east across the Midwest and a cold … Continue reading →

The group started out the day in Norfolk, NE with some breakfast. The groups target was Des Moines, IA with a 100 percent chance of seeing tornadoes. The group went to the IMAX Film Called “Tornado Alley” by Sean Casey … Continue reading →

By: Nathaniel Shearer With the memory of yesterday’s strong CIN preventing thunderstorms fresh on our mind, the group was getting anxious to view storms and especially tornadoes.  After a discussion on the current atmospheric setup, a low pressure system ejecting … Continue reading →

Our group woke up in Limon, CO with hopes of a chase day in southeastern Colorado. The outlook in that area was meager with a dominating cap (CIN) over the area preventing any convection from taking place. All other parameters, … Continue reading →

Mother nature was not allowing us to pursue our goal of catching stomrs.  The atmosphere was in the process of developing another system to eject out of the four corners region for this weekend. So the group decided to take … Continue reading →

Cheyenne turned out to be a good pick, yet the cap that was literally putting a lid on convection was literally to much to overcome. We ended up seeing a couple of cells that popped up on the Wyoming/Nebraska Border. … Continue reading →