Awesome mid-October weather to finish the week

With plenty of sunshine and a south breeze, afternoon highs should run toward the 80 degree mark again on Friday.

It was a picture perfect Thursday across Central and Eastern Kentucky with lots of sunshine and unseasonably warm temperatures for the middle part of October. With a warm front camped out across the central part of the Ohio Valley, the commonwealth sat in a perfect spot to soak up the warmth pushed northward on the heels of a south breeze….

Nearly 9,000 Kentucky Truck Plant workers in Louisville are on strike. Here’s why

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — Workers at kentucky’s “ford truck plant” have joined the united auto workers strike. The surprise strike — ordering thousands of workers off the job at the company’s largest plant last night. The walk-off from the Kentucky Truck Plant comes after negotiations between the United Auto Workers and Ford failed to come to a compromise on a new…

A brief warm up before we cool it back down

Meteorologist Jordan Smith has a look at your Thursday morning forecast!

  Lexington, Kentucky (WTVQ – ABC 36): Good Thursday morning Kentucky, we are in the middle of a “brief” warm up because MAJOR changes are showing up for the weekend. High temperatures today will come up into the upper 70s to near 80 today with mostly sunny skies. Lows by Friday morning drop back into the low to mid 50s,…