Gloomy Bowling Green Weather Gives Way to Cold

Real-time Bowling Green Weather Radar

Yesterday’s Weather

Bowling Green Weather was pretty terrible yesterday, to be honest. It was cloudy all day long, and it was just kinda nasty. It also cooled down through the day, with the low for the day being met at 8:40 PM last night. The day just made it easy to transition to today, though, as it is looking like another cloudy day.

Yesterday's climate report. h/t NWS Louisville — Yesterday’s climate report. h/t NWS Louisville

Forecast Summary

Today: Mostly cloudy, with light rain possible this morning. Highs around 45°F. Overnight, look for partly to mostly cloudy skies, with lows falling to around 30°F.

Bus stop: ☁️/🌧 35°F
Lunch hour: ☁️/🌧 40°F
School is out: ☁️ 45°F
Evening time: ☁️ 39°F

Tomorrow: Partly to mostly sunny, with highs around 37°F. Overnight, look for mostly clear skies to develop, with lows falling to around 17°F.

Bus stop: 🌤 32°F
Lunch hour: 🌤 35°F
School is out: ⛅️ 37°F
Evening time: 🌤 30°F

Thursday: Sunny skies and very cold. Highs only around 28°F. Overnight, look for mostly clear skies, with lows falling to around 15°F.

Bus stop: ☀️ 19°F
Lunch hour: ☀️ 24°F
School is out: ☀️ 28°F
Evening time: ☀️25°F

Discussion

This forecast will mostly consist of gloominess and cloudiness, because those are the only things we have really seen in quite sometime.

It has been a relatively benign pattern as of late, with temperatures remaining consistently cool and clouds being a commonality. We have also had plenty of days of rainfall, so I am sure that some of you are tired of it. We still need the rain, though, so we will take what we can get.

I simply just love this gif. h/t giphy.com

The rainfall today is in response to a weak, fast moving shortwave approaching the region as we speak. While the radar is showing a well defined area of precipitation approaching the region, we are currently entrenched in some fairly dry air in the lower levels of the atmosphere. This may be an issue that the precip has to overcome to actually even make it to the ground, so we may not even see rain this morning.

That dry air will need to be overcome by the rainfall for any of it to reach the ground. h/t pivotalweather.com

The lower levels need to saturate from the precip, and if that happens, then we should see some rainfall. Outside of that, its gonna be tough. To our north, they are currently seeing freezing rain/snow, though. I guess it is good that we aren’t seeing that!

Riding in Seymour. Freezing rain in town. pic.twitter.com/mL4JovibqD

— Brian Goode (@BGoodeWAVE3) December 13, 2016

By this afternoon, whatever precip that was falling should be moving on out and leaving us with cloud cover. This will be the beginning of the next cold shot as a very deep trough digs into southern Canada. This is associated with a piece of the infamous “Polar Vortex” (which is a legit meteorological entity). This will feed very cold air into the region by Thursday. Temps over the next couple days likely won’t get out of the 30s, and Thursday won’t get out of the upper 20s!

While these aren't real temperatures, temperature anomaly forecasts give a good sense of how cold it will be. Temperature anomaly maps just show how far away from average the actual temperatures are forecast to be. These are the forecast temp anomalies for early Thursday afternoon. h/t pivotalweather.com — While these aren’t real temperatures, temperature anomaly forecasts give a good sense of how cold it will be. Temperature anomaly maps just show how far away from average the actual temperatures are forecast to be. These are the forecast temp anomalies for early Thursday afternoon. h/t pivotalweather.com

Bowling Green Weather is looking real cold the next few days. Wednesday through Friday, be sure to bundle the kids up for the bus stop! Temperatures in the teens aren’t anything to mess with, so take caution.

Today’s Key Points

Light precip possible today
Atmosphere needs to moisten up to get rainfall
Very, very cold weather headed our way Wed. through Friday
Storms Saturday? Maybe.

Thats all I have for ya! Thanks for checking into WxOrNotBG this morning, and be sure to follow @WxOrNotBG and @WKUweather on Twitter and like Landon Hampton on Facebook for the latest Bowling Green Weather information. Have a great day folks!