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September 2009 ArchivesIt was officially chilly today, per my definition of officially "chilly" (any day in the 50s, when you haven't been in the 50s since April, April 21st to be exact). We'll have officially cold lows tonight, per my definition of officiall "cold" (any night in the 40s when you haven't been in the 40s since April or May, May 18-19th to be exact). Tuesday's high was only 58, two degrees warmer than a record cool-high temperature of 56 set ... A Cold front pushed through Kentuckiana early Monday morning and in it's wake chilly Canadian came rushing in. Check out the peak gusts from around Kentucky... PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT ...PEAK WIND GUSTS TODAY (MPH)... BOWLING GREEN.....................31 A strong, but mainly dry cold front blows though the area Monday (key word, "blows"). Winds will be whipping with gusts up to 35 mph Monday afternoon. I think that's worthy of taking down the patio umbrella and maybe putting away some loose items around the yard. This front also brings with it the coolest air of our young fall season. Highs will be in the 60s through Wednesday, with lows in the 40s! ...The FLASH FLOOD WATCH has been cancelled for most of our viewing area... However, it is still in effect from Franklin-Green Co, KY and east until Saturday evening. Scattered showers tomorrow with a chance for afternon storms as the upper level low finally pushes through the region. Any storms that do develop will be capable of gusty winds, small hail and heavy downpours. The heaviest rains tomorrow should stay to our east... FLASH FLOOD WATCH Until Saturday evening. More showers, storms and periods of heavy rain through Saturday (1-3"). Partly Cloudy Sunday after some morning fog and a few raindrops. Another much colder front arrives Monday morning ushering fall time temperatures with highs in the mid to upper 60s and lows in the 40s! A little warmer Wednesday. ...
Sunday evening a line of thunderstorms were moving through Kentuckiana producing heavy rain and gusty winds. Around 5:30 radar detected rotation in a thunderstorm and a Tornado warning was issued at 5:35 for southern Indiana in Clark, Floyd, Harrison and Washington Counties. The only reports we received Sunday were for wind damage in Clark county. Today a NWS Storm Survey Team confirmed that an EF-1 tornado briefly touched down (1 ... It has been a very wet year so far... August will go down as one of the wettest August on Record because of the flooding rain on the 4th. This past Sunday we saw more flooding with Southern Indiana getting hit the hardest and as I type this blog more storms with heavy rain are heading our way. Check out the rainfall numbers for the year... September... 4.43" Average: 2.28" (+2.15" above average) From late Sunday, September 20th afternoon through the late night, 3-7 inches of rain fell over Kentuckiana. While the flood may not have been as severe as August 4th, it was certainly more widespread. Take a look at the excessive rainfall amounts. Clark, Floyd, and Jefferson Counties were the hardist hit. Some viewers in Clark County, Indiana even said it was worse than the flood a month and half earlier. Fall officially begins early Tuesday morning, before that, expect some periods of heavy rain. We already had scattered showers and storms roll through Kentuckiana early Sunday, and more is on the way. The door to the Gulf of Mexico has opened up with a nice southerly flow, so any little disturbance will kick up that moisture from time to time, sparking showers and a few storms through Wednesday. We can use the rain though, Septempe... The forecast for he next several days is extremely challenging. A cut-off low (jet stream is well north of the Low) has stalled out over Louisiana and is just setting there spinnig producing flooding rains over TX, OK, AR, LA, TN. Yesterday the models were drifting the low towards us... Well, that hasn't happened. Now it appears the low will stay south of us keeping most Kentuckiana dry through Saturday. The problem with this type of Low....
It was one year ago tomorrow (Sept. 14th) when the remnants of Hurricane Ike ripped through Kentuckiana producing wind gusts of 50 to 80 mph. Throwing trees and power lines to the ground and knocking out power to 400,000 ho... Fred has weakened a little, but is still a Major Cat. 3 hurricane with gust of 115 mph. Fred looks like he will be staying in the open Atlantic waters and will not be threatening any land. For more tropical information check out our Tropical Tracker page. ...
Cool picture through our PNC Plaza Camera Monday evening. I'm 100% sure it's raining when I see something like this. Just like the "weather rock", if it's wet, it's raining, if it's cold, it's cold, and so on. ... If your yard is like mine - dry, thirsty, and ready for rain - well, then you wouldn't mind a random act of rainfall from the atmosphere. That's what we've been dealing with lately, a bunch of hit or miss storms. Southern Indiana got the gully-washers Sunday. If you haven't had much rain, no worries, we'll have plentiful rain chances this week, and through next weekend. They are the "nice" kind of storms for the most part, they don't carry... No, it's not a derogatory word, it's not a funny sound when you sneeze and cough at the same time, and no, it's not the name of some alien cartoon character. A "vort" or vorticity, is basically an area of spin in the middle section of the atmosphere, and it's what's been causing most of our rain chances lately. They are hard to time out and the weather models do a poor job picking them up accurately. So, we honestly just have to say "hit or... NASA has a write-up about the trend of disappearing sunspots on the solar surface. There was a major disappearance of sunspots called the Maunder Minimum during the late 1600s and early 1700s, a time that also correlates to the "Little Ice Age". Scientists are trying to determine if sunspot activity is related to global warming and cooling. Here is all the latest from NASA on the sunspot activity happening right now, and what could happen i... Eastern Grayson County flooded this morning, an area about an hour southwest of Louisville, just to the southeast of Leitchfield and Clarkson, near Nolin River Lake. About 3-5" of rain fell over a period of a couple hours early this morning. Here's the estimates per Stormtracker 3D Doppler Radar...
A poorly organized Tropical Storm Erika is swirling in the Atlantic to the east of the the vacation island chains...
What a summer we have had... June started off warm, but frequent thunderstorms keeped up pretty wet. On June 16 a powerful weather system called a "derecho" surged from west to east across Kentucky. Like all derechoes, this line of strong storms generated damaging winds along its path, and caused quite a bit of damage throughout southern Kentucky. The upper level weather pattern (jet stream) changed in late June leaving us in a cool... Some interesting stats from another cool month on the books... Certainly a lopsided month in terms of rainfall. August 4th was our flood day, with officially 4.53" of rain recorded, with an isolated area over the metro and downtown of over 6 inches. The last 2/3rds of August though was rather dry, with only about a 1/2" in most areas. It still remains pretty dry across Kentuckiana. Rain is once again welcome. Temperatures... Here's the headline from the National Hurricane Center... "...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE JIMENA HEADING TOWARD THE BAJA PENINSULA... " Hurricane Jimena is a major hurricane in the Pacific Ocean heading towards Baja California. We don't usually pay much attention to the Pacific systems, but this one is pretty close to the United States, and heading to a popular vacation location. In fact, my mom is on a Baja cruise right no... |
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