Summary of recent records broken or tied

Regional Outbreaks of Severe Weather Through Early Next Week; Early Season Heat Wave across the South

Active spring pattern across the center of our nation with several episodes of severe weather and heavy rainfall expected into next week. The potential for very large hail, long track tornadoes, severe wind gusts, frequent cloud to ground lightning strikes and flash flooding are in the outlook. Furthermore, dangerous early season heat wave continues for the Gulf Coast states into early next week. Read More >

...SUMMARY OF RECENT RECORDS... The first week and a half of October has been one for the record books, with persistently very warm temperatures and some locally heavy rain. Below is a summary of the records that were broken or tied. Louisville... October 2: new record warm low of 73 October 5: tied record high of 92 October 7: tied record warm low of 70 October 8: new record warm low of 72 October 9: new record warm low of 72 October 10: tied record warm low of 71 Lexington... October 2: tied record warm low of 69 October 4: tied record warm low of 70, record rainfall of 3.42" October 5: tied record warm low of 71 which also tied the all-time record warm low for the month of October October 7: new record warm low of 70 October 8: new record warm low of 70 October 9: new record warm low of 70 October 10: new record warm low of 70 Bowling Green... October 8: tied record warm low of 66 October 10: tied record warm low of 70 Frankfort... October 2: new record warm low of 70 October 6: new record warm low of 68 October 8: new record warm low of 68