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Kentucky Climate Summary
By: Matthew Dixon, UK Agricultural Weather Center - 08/03/2021

Kentucky saw some of the warmest temperatures of the summer season this past week, specifically between Tuesday and Thursday. Highs each day peaked in the upper 80s to middle 90s. Oppressive humidity pushed peak heat indices into the 100 to 110 range on Thursday, taking the livestock heat stress index into the danger and emergency categories. Rain returned to the area for the second half of the week, but not for all. Significant rain fell Thursday night and into Friday across Eastern Kentucky. In fact, a large area saw more than two inches, resulting in some bouts of flooding. The rest of Kentucky, for the most part, missed out on anything significant for the week. A number of stations totaled less than a tenth of an inch, especially across Central KY.

Temperatures for the period averaged 77 degrees across the state which was near normal and 2 degrees warmer than the previous period. High temperatures averaged from 89 in the West to 86 in the East. Departure from normal high temperatures ranged from near normal in the West to 1 degree cooler than normal in the East. Low temperatures averaged from 69 degrees in the West to 67 degrees in the East. Departure from normal low temperature ranged from 2 degrees warmer than normal in the West to 3 degrees warmer than normal in the East. The extreme high temperature for the period was 95 degrees at BOWLING GREEN APT and the extreme low was 57 degrees at CINCINNATI.

Precipitation (liq. equ.) for the period totaled 0.95 inches statewide which was 0.03 inches below normal and 97% of normal. Precipitation totals by climate division, West 0.41 inches, Central 0.50 inches, Bluegrass 0.88 inches and East 1.99 inches, which was -0.52, -0.47, -0.09 and 0.96 inches respectively from normal. By station, precipitation totals ranged from a low of 0.00 inches at ALEXANDRIA 5NW to a high of 4.78 inches at VANCEBURG 6W.


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