LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – It’s midweek and all eyes are on a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Francine makes landfall later today and will roll up the Mississippi River, impacting our weather Thursday and Friday.
Hurricane Francine is approaching the Louisiana coast and will make landfall this evening. This system is interacting with a stalled boundary on the Gulf Coast, creating a massive cloud cover that will move into our region throughout the day.
This system will then move northward through Mississippi tonight and Thursday before moving slightly northwest again and moving into western Tennessee and western Kentucky.
The closer we get to Francine’s influence on Kentucky’s weather, the more we can fine-tune things. The first spiral bands of showers and storms will arrive in western and southern Kentucky late Thursday and Thursday night. This activity will increase as it rotates counterclockwise around the remnant low and moves into western Tennessee and western Kentucky by Friday.
The greatest threat for heavy rain and some severe storms is to the west. Some spiral bands of severe storms and heavy rain will emerge across central and parts of eastern Kentucky, with a sharp end in the northeast.
Scattered showers and storms will remain in the west on Sunday. Another tropical system could form off the coast of the Carolinas, bringing us more showers and storms early next week.
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