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Kentucky Climate Summary
By: Tom Priddy, UK Agricultural Weather Center - 10/23/2018
The passage of multiple cold fronts kept a cooler air mass situated over the Bluegrass State for much of the period. Frost Advisories and Freeze Warnings were issued on multiple occasions. Most of the state saw extreme low temperatures drop into the upper
20s to middle 30s at some point over the past week. This was especially the case Saturday night, behind the passage of a strong cold front. This frontal boundary was the focus for high winds late Saturday with gusts in excess of 40 mph at times. Overall, the
state average temperature for the week was 7 degrees below normal, which broke a seven week streak of above normal temperatures. Precipitation averaged about an inch with a couple widespread rounds of light to moderate showers, one coming on Monday
and the other on Friday, carrying over into the early stages of Saturday.
Temperatures for the period averaged 50 degrees across the state which was 7 degrees cooler than normal and 12 degrees cooler than the previous period. High temperatures averaged from 61 in the West to 60 in the East. Departure from normal high
temperatures ranged from 10 degrees cooler than normal in the West to 10 degrees cooler than normal in the East. Low temperatures averaged from 40 degrees in the West to 43 degrees in the East. Departure from normal low temperature ranged from 6
degrees cooler than normal in the West to 1 degree warmer than normal in the East. The extreme high temperature for the period was 74 degrees at BURKESVILLE 3W and the extreme low was 26 degrees at HENDERSON 5E.
Precipitation (liq. equ.) for the period totaled 1.06 inches statewide which was 0.36 inches above normal and 151% of normal. Precipitation totals by climate division, West 0.96 inches, Central 1.62 inches, Bluegrass 0.72 inches and East 0.94 inches, which
was 0.2, 0.91, 0.06 and 0.27 inches above normal. By station, precipitation totals ranged from a low of 0.11 inches at CARROLLTON 2E to a high of 2.82 inches at RUSSELLVILLE 2W.
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