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We are all familiar with the phrase, “April showers bring May flowers,” and I believe that this saying held very true in April this year. The Bowling Green Airport received an impressive 9.08″ of rainfall during the month which officially makes it the 4th wettest April on record in Bowling Green. Impressive rainfall was also […]
Tag: April
Late April Frost Would be Right on Schedule
A chilly night is expected across Kentucky overnight as low temperatures will dip into the upper 30s. With these temperatures, patchy frost will be possible tonight with the greatest chance of frost in rural locations and cooler valleys. Bowling Green has not seen a temperature reading in the 30s since April 5. If frost were […]
Cool Down On The Way
Real-time BG Radar: Today: Partly sunny and windy, with showers/storms into the evening. High of 64ºF. Tonight: Cloudy, with showers. Low of 50ºF. I am really hoping that today doesn’t involve me getting drenched again. Multiple times the question of, “If a meteorology major knows it’s going to rain, and yet doesn’t bring an umbrella, are they […]
Kentucky Streams and Rivers on the Rise
April 2015 has proved to be a wetter than average month across Kentucky thus far. Louisville, Lexington, and Frankfort are all on pace to become the wettest April on record and the Bowling Green Airport has already picked up nearly 6″ of rainfall through the first half of the month. All of this rainfall has […]
Upcoming Kentucky Events this Weekend
April has proved to be a wet month across the state so far. Check out the map below which displays radar-estimated precipitation totals for the month of April 2015 thus far. Portions of north central Kentucky and the Bluegrass region have seen the highest rainfall totals although Warren and Butler counties have also seen above-average […]
Significant Tornado Impacts N. Illinois Town
For over a week, yesterday had been highlighted as a day for significant severe weather over the nation’s heartland. The models had been honing in on an area in and around the Iowa/Illinois region, and the SPC had that accurately pinned down over a week out from the event itself. We know how much model […]
James Spann To Visit WKU
James Spann is a nationally recognized, awarded, and prominent broadcast meteorologist who is coming to WKU to discuss one of the most devastating tornado outbreaks on record, which occurred during April 2011. James works in Birmingham, AL, an area that was in the epicenter of the outbreak. The presentation is currently slated for April 2nd […]
Tornado Debris – How Far Can It Go?
Over the course of April 27 and April 28, a severe weather outbreak commenced over the south-central to southeast United States. 107 tornadoes were reported over the course of two days (filtered per SPC). A few of the tornadoes were rather intense, launching debris from populated regions several miles away. Wx Or Not BG team […]
Severe Weather…Or the Lack Thereof
Spring is traditionally severe weather season across the United States. However, this year there has been a pretty substantial lack of severe weather. In fact, 2014 is off to a record slow start in regards to the amount of tornadoes thus far in the year. As the graph above depicts, 2014 is off to the […]
Meridional Flow
Spring is officially here, however someone forgot to tell that to Mother Nature. We remain under a very active pattern as we continue into late March and early April. This is because we are in a meridional flow pattern. Meridional flow occurs when there are highly amplified troughs and ridges. Troughs and ridges are formations […]