A Cooler Weekend

Written by Geoff Cornish

Saturday, 10 October 2009 18:51

The average high this weekend in Lexington is 69 degrees, but we're much cooler than that, after Friday's strong cold front blitzed the Commonwealth.

Look at how Friday's highs compare with Saturday's preliminary highs for seven towns in the area:

Bowling Green: 79 / 56
Frankfort: 67 / 57
Jackson: 82 / 62
Huntington: 83 / 63
Lexington: 68 / 57 (Saturday's high of 57 was set at midnight, EDT)
London: 83 / 63 (Friday's 83 tied the old record high for October 9, initially set in 1980)
Louisville: 67 / 60

For our seven-day forecast, click the 'read more' button.

Gradual clearing will occur overnight into early Sunday morning, but look out for patchy fog to form in the pre-dawn hours. Lows will dip down to 42.

Sunday will be a day of improvements, weatherwise, with some sunshine mixing with clouds, and a high near 62 degrees.

The workweek will be plagued by occasional, light rain showers as a series of weak disturbances move across Kentucky. The first one will approach from the south and west on Columbus Day, producing plenty of clouds along with some scattered, light rain showers on Monday into Tuesday morning. Highs will be near 64 on Monday and 62 on Tuesday.

Skies will remain mostly cloudy through midweek, and additional, isolated showers will develop on Wednesday ahead of storm system #2. Highs at midweek will be near 60 degrees.

Thursday may well be our most active day, weatherwise, as a strong cold front crosses the region. Scattered thunderstorms will occur, and highs will be near 62.

Cooler air will arrive on Friday into the weekend. A few showers will linger into Friday under mostly cloudy skies, and highs will only be near 54.

We'll dry out on Friday night, and fall to near 38 degrees by Saturday morning. Saturday will be a very chilly day with partly sunny skies and highs potentially as cool as 50 degrees.

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