WKU Meteorology

Today is going to be the best day out of the whole week. Today will be very nice with mostly sunny conditions and a high near 72. Today winds will be light and out of the southwest. This evening we can expect a low temperature of around 48. As of now the models are showing Thursday to be mostly cloud with a 50% chance of rain overnight on Thursday. The rain chances are due to a very small amount of vorticity that is coming down into our area via the polar jet. Right now there is split flow between the two but models show the sub-tropical and polar jet merging over our area tonight(Wednesday). This merger will provided the small piece of vorticity with enough moisture, from the gulf, to give us our 50% chance of rain on Thursday night. Thursday high temps will be near 73 with a low around 52. The models are showing Thursday nights weather carrying over into Friday as well. As of now rain chances for Friday are 50% with a high near 77 and a low near 57. Saturday could also bring some rain our way, but I will discuss that on Friday when the next blog comes out. Have a great rest of the week and get outside and enjoy today if you have a chance.

If you were hoping  for some excitement in the weather this week then you are going to be disappointed.  Today we can expect a mix of clouds and sun with a high reaching near 68 with a light northeast wind.  Overnight clouds will increase and temperatures will drop down to around 45. Tuesday there is a slight chance of rain as a small lobe of vorticity passes right over our area.  The NAM is keeping the rain a little further south while the GFS has our area receiving a little rain. If we do see rain it will be light. Right now I would say chances are around 30%. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with highs reaching near 70 and a low of 45. Hopefully on Wednesday we will see a little more sun. Also, it looks like there may be a bigger rain event  headed our way late in the week into the start of the weekend. Come back Wednesday for your midweek update. As always thanks for checking Western Kentucky’s Met blog.

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All is remaining quiet. No need to really talk about much of anything. Zonal flow continues to keep things clear. Temperatures should remain constant with the low to mid 80’s for highs with a low dipping to around the mid-50’s. Continue reading →

It looks like we’ll have another great weekend of weather across south central Kentucky. Continue reading →

The line of storms out to our west has continued to strengthen and organize as it has entered far western Kentucky. The SPC has had several reports of wind damage and 1″ inch across portions of northeastern Arkansas and southern Illinois. It would be reasonable to expect similar results for our area. We currently have a bulls-eye of decent LI along with increasing CAPE over the past couple of hours for south central Kentucky. But now that night has descended upon us, any potential for further instability has all but ended. Bottom line: expect some good soaking rains with this line of storms as it passes in a couple hours, along with some decent winds (35+ mph) and perhaps even small hail.

South central Kentucky could see some decent storms overnight as a cold front advances into the area from the west. Continue reading →

We’ve been getting spoiled over the Mid-South lately with great weather, and that will continue into the early part of the week. Continue reading →