Feeling more like late August this weekend
After a fall-like week of weather across the area, temperatures will heat back up nicely in the coming days
It’s been an amazing week of weather across Central and Eastern Kentucky with a sneak peek of the fall season as early morning lows were cool and afternoon highs stayed very pleasant. However you could start to feel the shift in the weather pattern on Friday as temperatures climbed back into the mid-80s for highs and we ended up with a little “dewpoint” gradient with some slightly muggy air working back into southwestern Kentucky thanks to a weak through stretched over the area. It was still a nice finish to the week and we should be set up for a great start to the Kentucky high school football season Friday evening with quiet weather and temperatures dropping into the 70s as the games wear on, which is something we don’t typically see the first week of the new season each year.
The upcoming weekend should be a good one by late August standards as temperatures continue to climb across the board. Most locations should end up either side of the 90 degree mark for afternoon highs on Saturday and even though the humidity levels may climb up slightly, it shouldn’t be overly oppressive for any outdoor activities. That being said, you’ll want to hydrate and find some shade if you have to be out for any length of time because it is still the “hot season” and it’s easy for some folks to have shifted into “fall mode” with all the cooler weather earlier in the week.
Closing out the weekend and heading into early next week expect more of the same as temperatures continue to climb into the low 90s and humidity levels steadily rise as well. Afternoon highs will be in the low 90s and you should feel the elevated humidity levels the deeper we get into next week. Our “muggy-cast” paints a good picture of the higher humidity levels into the middle part of next week and even though they won’t be terribly high, with temperatures into the mid-90s, it won’t take much to get those heat index values close to 100 degrees by the mid part of next week.
The models continue to struggle with the isolated storm chances returning as some of the data throws some warmer air in the mid-levels through middle of next week so that would tend to suppress any thunderstorm development, even with a weakening front moving in. At this point our best chances for any storms will be pushed back to Thursday and Friday which takes us right up to Labor Day weekend. The extended temperature outlook keeps us in the 90s for highs into the holiday weekend with another storm system moving through over the long holiday weekend with showers and storms followed by a bit of a cooldown by the holiday. Of course this is around 1 week out some it bears watching as we get closer to that time frame. Have a great weekend!
ABC 36 HOUR FORECAST
FRIDAY NIGHT: Fair skies, still comfy. Lows in the low-60s.
SATURDAY: Mostly sunny and heating up. Highs in the upper-80s to around 90 degrees.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear and mild. Lows in the mid-60s.
