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Date: Monday Oct 18 2021 Re: Palmer Drought (PDSI)/Crop Moisture (CMI) Indices Well Above Normal Temperatures and Below Normal Rainfall: Much like the first half of October, well above normal temperatures remained in place for the workweek. Highs peaked on Thursday with temperatures in the low to middle 80s across much of the state, which would be about 10 to 15 degrees above normal for this time of year. Showers and storms crossed the western half of Kentucky on Monday night, before dissipating to the east. Following another light round of showers Wednesday, more significant activity arrived on Friday with the passage of a strong cold front. Some storms across Western Kentucky did show capable of producing damaging winds. Overall, outside of some spotty locations, most of the state ended under an inch for the week. Behind the front, much cooler air filtered into the state from the northwest. Highs on Saturday and Sunday were limited to the 60s. Lows on Sunday morning even dipped into the middle 30s to low 40s, prompting the possibility of patchy frost in low lying and sheltered locations. WEST KY Long-term Hydrological Moisture status is: NEAR NORMAL CENTRAL KY Long-term Hydrological Moisture status is: NEAR NORMAL BLUEGRASS KY Long-term Hydrological Moisture status is: NEAR NORMAL EAST KY Long-term Hydrological Moisture status is: NEAR NORMAL WEST KY Crop Moisture status is: Favorable For Normal Growth And Fieldwork CENTRAL KY Crop Moisture status is: Favorable For Normal Growth And Fieldwork BLUEGRASS KY Crop Moisture status is: Favorable, Except Still Too Wet In Spots EAST KY Crop Moisture status is: Favorable For Normal Growth And Fieldwork Rainfall needed above normal to end the hydrological drought: West 0.00 inches, Central 0.00 inches, Bluegrass 0.00 inches and East 0.00 inches. WEEKLY PALMER DROUGHT AND CROP MOISTURE DATA FOR THE CLIMATE DIVISIONS IN THE CENTRAL REGION CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER, NCEP, NWS, NOAA WEEK 33 OF THE 2021 GROWING SEASON IS THE WEEK ENDING 16 OCT 2021 SOIL PCT MONTH PRELIM-P PRECIP MOISTURE FIELD CHANGE MOIST FINAL -F NEEDED UPPER LOWER CAP. POT RUN CROP FROM ANOM PALMER TO END TEMP PCPN LAYER LAYER END EVAP OFF MOIST PREV (Z) DROUGHT DROUGHT ST CD CLIMATE DIVISION (F) (IN) (IN) (IN) WEEK (IN) (IN) INDEX WEEK INDEX INDEX (IN) KY 1 WESTERN 70.2 0.68 0.00 4.50 50.0 0.82 0.00 0.16 -0.06 0.24 0.35 P KY 2 CENTRAL 69.1 0.61 0.81 5.89 74.5 0.80 0.00 0.56 -0.49 2.24 1.08 P KY 3 BLUEGRASS 68.2 0.66 0.88 7.53 93.5 0.78 0.00 1.03 -0.59 3.08 1.68 F KY 4 EASTERN 68.5 0.52 0.30 4.19 74.8 0.78 0.00 0.37 -0.41 1.34 1.08 PNote: In the "Precip Needed to End Drought" column...that rainfall is needed ABOVE NORMAL./K. Thomas Priddy, UKAWC
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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.
Fayette County Precision Ag. Weather Forecast