Category Archives: Kentucky Weather

Weak system to bring light rain

Highlights *Highs in the low to mid 40s *Light rain Monday night/Tuesday *High pressure dominates mid week A system to our north will bring rain to the area Monday night into the afternoon on Tuesday.  Cold air will remain to … Continue reading

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Weekend Storm

Boy what a difference a few days makes. Latest model runs now provide quite a drastic picture shaping up for this weekends weather. Both the European and GFS as Well As The North American Mesoscale Model, are in pretty good … Continue reading

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Clipper System Lookout and VERY Cold Air Behind

As mentioned in previous blogs, a clipper system will be advancing from the NW and swinging south into the SE.  Tracks were unknown as of a few days ago, however, models now are now in better  agreeance of a more … Continue reading

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December 11-13 Clipper System

Models are picking up on a clipper system to move through the area this weekend.  As of right now looks like cold air is in place for some measurable snowfall for the area.  Now with models this far out in … Continue reading

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Arctic Blast

Western Kentucky University awoke to some light snow this morning and picked up a trace.  If you were to step outside however you would soon realize that snow isn’t the real story here.  Deep Arctic air has made its way … Continue reading

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Outstanding preformance from WKU in UGA forecast contest

Over this fall term students in Dr.Durkee’s Synoptic class forecasted weather each day for cities across the country and competed with meteorology majors from the university of Georgia, northern Illinois university and Mississippi state university. Overall Lee Campbell a blog … Continue reading

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A cold and windy start to December.

The past couple days were rather wet for Bowling Green, with the airport recording 1.01 inches of rain. This was associated with a rather slow moving cold front that moved through our area. Now that this front has moved through, … Continue reading

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Kentucky Weather Workshop

For those who are interested, the KY division of emergency managers are holding there first annual weather workshop. Topics range from weather awareness and safety, to impacts of El niño Southern Oscillation’s effects on KY weather. The target audience is … Continue reading

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Raw November Day

Shortwave and resulting vorticity maxima, coupled with some jet dynamics, is allowing just enough lift for some light showers in northern KY. For Bowling green, it will be a cloudy day with skies clearing overnight. High pressure will also return … Continue reading

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Rainy start to the week

An approaching system to our west is bringing with it Gulf moisture. Clouds will begin to build into the area as the afternoon approaches bringing with it the increase in precipitation later tonight. High today will be in the mid … Continue reading

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