Following a wet first half of August, rain has started running scarce over the second half. Outside of some isolated to widely scattered showers over the second half of the week, most ran dry for the period. This marked a second straight week of below normal rainfall. Over that 14-day period, data at the Ag Weather Center shows the state has only averaged 0.57 inches, which is about an inch below normal. Outside of precipitation, summer heat slowly returned to the area. The heat peaked over the weekend when highs on Sunday jumped into the upper 80s to middle 90s. Dewpoints in the 70s led to a very humid feel to the air and pushed heat indices around 100 for some across the state.
Temperatures for the period averaged 75 degrees across the state which was near normal and 2 degrees warmer than the previous period. High temperatures averaged from 88 in the West to 85 in the East. Departure from normal high temperatures ranged from near normal in the West to near normal in the East. Low temperatures averaged from 64 degrees in the West to 64 degrees in the East. Departure from normal low temperature ranged from 1 degree cooler than normal in the West to 2 degrees warmer than normal in the East. The extreme high temperature for the period was 96 degrees at BOWLING GREEN APT and the extreme low was 55 degrees at CYNTHIANA 8N.
Precipitation (liq. equ.) for the period totaled 0.12 inches statewide which was 0.66 inches below normal and 15% of normal. Precipitation totals by climate division, West 0.09 inches, Central 0.12 inches, Bluegrass 0.11 inches and East 0.16 inches, which was 0.62, 0.68, 0.67 and 0.68 inches below normal. By station, precipitation totals ranged from a low of 0.00 inches at ALEXANDRIA 5NW to a high of 1.67 inches at SCOTTSVILLE 2W.
Categories: Kentucky, Weather