From the Agricultural Weather Center, in the University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture, Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering Department... here is your Ag Weather Synopsis for Kentucky compiled by Meteorologist Michael Mathews and Research & Extension Agricultural Meteorologist and Director of the UK Ag Weather Center, Tom Priddy ... To send us questions/comments, click here!

Updated Thursday Evening, December 9, 2021 Severe weather on the table It has been a rather active weather pattern to start December. Through the 8th, the state has averaged 1.39 inches. Attention now turns to another round of showers and storms tomorrow and Saturday. Altogether, another half to 1.5 inches will be on the table. Coverage will start tomorrow scattered in nature. Highs will jump into the 60s across much of the area behind breezy southerly winds. Shower/storm coverage and intensity then increases tomorrow night and into Saturday morning. A line of storms is expected with damaging winds as the main threat, but tornadoes also very much possible. Heavy rain also presents a flooding threat, especially for low lying areas. Now is the time to get animals out of those spots. Bottom line, this will present an overnight threat, so please have a way to get warning (highly suggest a NOAA Weather Radio). After a brief cool down for the latter half of the weekend, temperatures go on the uphill climb next week. Outlooks hint the warm air will hang around the area through the third full week of December. Any additional rain chances look to hold off until late workweek.

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West:

Central:

East:

Short Term Forecast for the Commonwealth:
Western KY
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Cooler with highs in the upper 60s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. 

Central KY
.TODAY...Cooler. Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely and chance of
thunderstorms early in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent. 

Eastern KY
.TODAY...Areas of valley fog early. Mostly cloudy with a
chance of thunderstorms. Showers, mainly this morning. Not as
warm with highs in the lower 70s. Temperature falling into the
mid 60s this afternoon. Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming
northwest around 5 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain 90 percent.









Kentucky Medium & Long Range Outlook:

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....  Medium and long range outlooks provided by NCEP/K. Thomas Priddy


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