How's the rain/thunder bumper situation in KY? (Lexington, Louisville: live, moving)

[virgo]

As the crow flies, Louisville, KY, is almost (I said almost) parallel with Northern VA, and 5 out of 7 days, the two areas seem to have the same weather/temperature (that's what I have noticed this summer). My area is considered dry rain-wise, but not in a drought. Are you all getting any rain in KY?

Also, Reston, VA, has not had hardly any good thunder bumpers (thunder storms) this summer, and I love them. The storms bounce all around and occur in other parts of the DC Metro area. Reston had one thunder bumper on June 12th, two on June 13th, and then the last one on July 4th during the day. Had any good thunder bumpers lately?

Thanks.

[missymomof3]

Well we had a quick one yesterday afternoon and may get another one in the same today. I love a good thunderstorm but not if it gets too scary! I am just curious.... how is it we get exactly the same weather as you when we often vary from Southern Indiana right across the river?

[virgo]

Originally Posted by missymomof3

Well we had a quick one yesterday afternoon and may get another one in the same today. I love a good thunderstorm but not if it gets too scary! I am just curious.... how is it we get exactly the same weather as you when we often vary from Southern Indiana right across the river?

I don't know how that is, but from my observation, when I watch the Weather Channel and they show those color blocks for temperature, drought conditions, who's getting rain, who's getting clear skies, etc., that's where I see the the similarities. For temperature and rain especially, it's a small swath that sort of runs along the KY/IN state line and the KY/OH state line and then goes through WVa over the mountains and then slants across Northern VA. It's very strange. It'll be raining cats and dogs (dark green) all around L'ville, but L'ville will show up as light green, which is not as much rain and so will NoVA. Even NoVA's weather is completely different from Richmond, VA's weather. Straaange.

And from what I can see, the Louisville weather is very different from the rest of KY. I think a large part of KY is experiencing a severe drought according to the Weather Channel (dark red color block) where as the L'ville area shows up as dry (yellow color block, like NoVA); if I've got L'ville pegged correctly on the map.

I got excited yesterday when I heard one peel of thunder and the wind started to pick up, but then the storm skipped over to Maryland. Pooh!

[Davart]

No rain here to speak of in 6 weeks and then 5 before that, we are 15" below normal on the year.

[missymomof3]

Davart I have heard that. I feel so bad for the farmers who's crops are dying and having to sell off cattle.

[missymomof3]

A little while back, we got sandwhiched between storms.... jeffersonville, IN had a torrential rain and we didn't. The next day, I went to Nashville and they had gotten rain the day before as well!

[desiree253]

We have quite a few thunderstorms here in Northeastern, KY. Lexington got pounded with very severe thunderstorms yesterday/evening with up to 5 inches of rain around downtown area within 3 hours. We then got a few boomers here in Morehead, as they seem to sweep down from Indiana, hit Lexington area quite often, then spring up around Mt. Sterling/Morehead and travel up through Huntington area. We are slated to have more today and tomorrow as well.
Morehead has had about 3 or more thunderstorms (although sometimes quick) every month!

I lived in Clarksburg/Bridgeport WV for a few months and noticed there had almost the same weather patterns as Richmond, KY area... all fall, winter, spring and now summer too! Always within about 2 degrees difference. Very weird, considering how far North Clarksburg is compared to Richmond/Lex.!

[missymomof3]

Perhaps that is the direction things head? I dunno. I do have to say that I have never heard the term Thunder bumper until now lol

[Davart]

Originally Posted by missymomof3

Davart I have heard that. I feel so bad for the farmers who's crops are dying and having to sell off cattle.

Well we're not selling off cattle and livestock just yet. But we are running up huge water bills with 2" and 4" lines watering fields and crops nearly 24 hours a day. I've been moving sprayers all morning starting at about 4AM and now it's just about to hot to get anything done, pretty standard for around here in June, July and August from about 2PM to 6PM ... last night to was almost sweater weather it got down to 84 for an over night low. That was about the time I got up. Where getting rain all around us so the humidity is staying high, and when I went outside this morning around 4, I started sweating instantly, that's just wrong that early. We started pumping water from the river to keep the cattle ponds and farm lakes from drying up, some folks have nearly dried up completely. Most of the folks with farms around here like myself have resigned to a break even year at best, everything from corn to tobacco even with watering looks bad.
What annoying is everyday they say rain in the forecast and it never comes. Time to go sweat again ...

Here's a rainfall map, not the south western area ...
http://wwwagwx.ca.uky.edu/ldm-images...ainplot_J1.gif
Looks like they haven't got much in the mountain either ... good thing they don't grow miles and miles of corn, cotton and soybeans there.

[virgo]

Originally Posted by Davart

Well we're not selling off cattle and livestock just yet. But we are running up huge water bills with 2" and 4" lines watering fields and crops nearly 24 hours a day. I've been moving sprayers all morning starting at about 4AM and now it's just about to hot to get anything done, pretty standard for around here in June, July and August from about 2PM to 6PM ... last night to was almost sweater weather it got down to 84 for an over night low. That was about the time I got up. Where getting rain all around us so the humidity is staying high, and when I went outside this morning around 4, I started sweating instantly, that's just wrong that early. We started pumping water from the river to keep the cattle ponds and farm lakes from drying up, some folks have nearly dried up completely. Most of the folks with farms around here like myself have resigned to a break even year at best, everything from corn to tobacco even with watering looks bad.
What annoying is everyday they say rain in the forecast and it never comes. Time to go sweat again ...

Here's a rainfall map, not the south western area ...
http://wwwagwx.ca.uky.edu/ldm-images...ainplot_J1.gif
Looks like they haven't got much in the mountain either ... good thing they don't grow miles and miles of corn, cotton and soybeans there.

Desiree, please send some of your storms over my way! It got kind of dark this afternoon, then I heard two peels of thunder with increasing wind, and then we had just rain for 10 minutes and that was it. But, one county over, they got a downpour. There are severe thunder storm warnings all around, but not near me. Of course, I am quite content to wait until evening for any thunder storms instead of having them now at 3:53 p.m., which would push rush hour traffic back to 7 p.m.

Missy, I call them thunder bumpers (because in the back of my mind I'm thinking cold air masses colliding/bumping with warm air masses), but the local TV and radio announcers will call them "thunder boomers" as well as the more traditional "thunder storms."

Davart, 4 o'clock in the morning! Sun isn't even up yet is it? Sorry to hear about your crops.

I know when I was a young girl, we would have frequent summer thunder bumpers in DC with beautiful blue skies the next day and less humidity. It's not the same anymore.