August Summary

Very little severe weather was observed this month, with damage reports restricted to isolated instances of trees blown down in locally strong storms. The remnants of Hurricane Laura traveled the length of Kentucky on the 28th, but just knocked down some trees in Russellville and brought less than two inches of rain to the region. There were no significant hot or cold spells; no daily average temperature during the month was more than 8 degrees away from normal at any of the climate observation sites.

Repeated rounds of showers and thunderstorms kept humidity levels high and vegetation green.

	Average Temperature	Departure from Normal	Precipitation	Departure from Normal
Bowling Green	77.7°	+0.2°	6.64"	+3.31"
Frankfort	75.7°	+0.5°	7.63"	+4.27"
Lexington	74.1°	-1.2°	3.57"	+0.32"
Louisville Ali	77.9°	-0.5°	5.56"	+2.23"
Louisville Bowman	76.7°	-0.8°	4.97"	+1.66"

Records

13th: Rainfall of 1.41" at Louisville
18th: Rainfall of 2.58" at Frankfort
27th: Warm low of 74° at Frankfort
30th: Warm low of 73° at Bowling Green

10th wettest August on record at Bowling Green
6th wettest August on record at Frankfort

Fog on the 26th. Robert Fisher