A good looking stretch of weather ahead

Meteorologist Jordan Smith has a look at your Sunday evening forecast!

  Lexington, Kentucky (WTVQ – ABC 36): Today has been a split weather day across Kentucky with central and northern Kentucky seeing dry conditions and temperatures in the upper 70s to near 80 while southern and eastern Kentucky has dealt with showers and temperatures only in the low to mid 70s. But where do we go from here? We look…

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A mainly calm and dry pattern ahead

Meteorologist Jordan Smith has a look at your Saturday evening forecast!

  Good Saturday evening everyone, it’s been a hot and muggy day across the Commonwealth with scattered showers and storms going up this evening. I don’t have much for you all but here are tonight’s weather headlines. Our Sunday is mainly dry outside of a stray shower or storm with high temperatures only in the low 80s. I will gladly…

UK talks offensive improvements heading into season

UK Football improves there offensive line and running back depth from last season.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — UK Football says they improved their offensive line and running back depth from last season. UK brought in five transfers to solidify the big blue wall. Coach Mark Stoops says that the line has eight or nine players who are ready to play; a big improvement from last year. As far as running backs, they are…

Oppressive heat and humidity relaxes a bit this weekend

After heat indices around 110 degrees with highs in the mid-90s Friday, we should back off on the very hot air by Sunday

We managed to avoid the excessive heat and humidity for much of the week across Central and Eastern Kentucky but our luck finally ran out on Friday. With super high humidity as dew-points reached the mid to upper 70s couples with afternoon highs in the mid and upper 90s, we dealt with some very oppressive conditions as heat index values…

Beshear emphasizes affordable housing need at conference in Lexington

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — Gov. Andy Beshear spoke at this year’s Kentucky Affordable Housing Conference on Friday. The conference, hosted by the Kentucky Housing Corporation, aims to connect Kentuckians with equal access to housing. “We need more affordable housing everywhere, all across Kentucky. We needed it before the natural disasters and we will need even more of it with the…

Heat and humidity peak across the area to close out the week Friday

Highs in the 90s will be possible Friday but once again the potential for storms could greatly impact temperatures

Thursday started out rather stormy across Central and Eastern Kentucky as complex of thunderstorms held together and dropped through the region from north to south. We saw torrential rain and lots of lightning with rainfall totals up to around a half inch, which feel over a short span of time. The biggest impact this complex had was on our afternoon…

Ham sells for record-breaking $10 million at Kentucky Country Ham Breakfast

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — The 59th annual Kentucky Country Ham Breakfast brought in a whopping new record Thursday morning — a ham sold for $10 million! After a bidding war between Joe and Kelly Craft and Central Bank, they combined their bids and each donated $5 million, according to ABC affiliate WHAS. Auction proceeds benefit the winner’s charity of choice,…