A break from the active weather is on the horizon

It’s been quite a week of weather across Central and Eastern Kentucky with consistent thunderstorms daily that produced torrential rain, lots of lightning and damaging winds in many cases. After dealing with widespread severe storms for the second evening in a row on Thursday, Mother Nature picked right up with another cluster of thunderstorms at daybreak moving through with more of the same. Even with some clouds around and temperatures mainly in the 80s for highs, additional storms developed through the day on Friday dropping more locally heavy rain but the good news is we are about to break out of this pattern heading into the weekend.

A frontal boundary will slide through the Ohio Valley on Saturday, breaking the upper level flow from the northwest and cutting off the path of the consistent thunderstorm complexes that have kept our weather unsettled all week long. We are looking at the potential for a few more showers and storms, especially areas east of I-75 on Saturday but they shouldn’t be as widespread and more importantly as intense as they have been the last several days. With clouds and showers around, afternoon highs should be held in check a bit with most locations topping out into the mid to upper-80s, which is right around average for early August.

The much advertised drier weather will finally settle into the area on Sunday and after all the wet weather we’ll catch a much needed break. If you have outdoor plans this weekend (which many folks will no doubt) Sunday should be your day with lots of sunshine but it will be on the hot side as afternoon highs creep back into the low 90s so make sure and hydrate properly of you’ll be outdoors for any length of time. Expect more of the same on Monday with more sun and heat as highs reach the low 90s. Even though the oppressive humidity we’ve seen much of this week will back down slightly behind the weekend front, it is early August afternoon so you should still feel the muggy air.

Quiet weather should remain along with the heat until a weak frontal boundary drops in by the mid part of next week. There shouldn’t be much to this front but one thing it should do is back our temperatures down a few degrees later next week. After highs in the mid-90s on Tuesday the front will usher in some slightly “cooler air for the mid and later part of next week with afternoon highs closer to average in the upper 80s. It appears we could see an isolated storm or two along the front Wednesday but that’s about it. Have a good weekend!

ABC 36 HOUR FORECAST
FRIDAY NIGHT: Early storms, then patchy fog. Lows in the upper-60s.
SATURDAY: A few storms, mainly east. Highs in the mid-80s.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear and quiet. Lows in the upper-60s.