Thunderstorms, some severe, may lead to scattered instances of flash flooding across the Midwest and Ohio Valley and southern Arizona. The threat will shift to the Mid-Atlantic coast on Thursday. Dangerous heat persists in the South and Southeast while building into the Southwest. Overnight lows will be so warm that little-to-no relief from the scorching daytime highs will be available. Read More >
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Historical Thanksgiving Weather | |
| Louisville | Lexington | Bowling Green | Frankfort | |
| Highest Temperature | 73° in 1896 | 71° in 1896 | 75° in 1896 | 74° in 1979 |
| Highest Average Temperature | 65.5° in 1896 | 62.5° in 1896 | 65.5° in 1896 | 62.5° in 1908 |
| Lowest Temperature | 8° in 1930 | 3° in 1930 | 15° in 1950 and 1912 | 7° in 1930 |
| Lowest Average Temperature | 14.5° in 1930 | 10° in 1930 | 22.5° in 1911 | 16.5° in 1930 |
| Wettest | 2.19" in 2010 | 1.17" in 1959 | 2.03" in 1959 | 1.81" in 1896 |
| Snowiest | 1.2" in 1938 | 4.2" in 1938 | 2.1" in 1950 | 3.5" in 1938 |
| Deepest Snow Cover | 1" in 1971, 30, 29 | 4" in 1938 | 2" in 1938 | 4" in 1938 |
Detailed weather for each Thanksgiving:
Wilmore, Kentucky on November 12, 2013. Photo: Neil, via Twitter
Note on the data presented here:
At Bowling Green and Frankfort data presented here may differ from data presented elsewhere. That is due primarily to "time shifting," which is when observers give their 24-hour reports at 7am. The high temperature, for example, may be given by the observer as 80 degrees on the 7am report on June 1, meaning that the 80 degree reading actually happened on the calendar day of May 31 (the previous afternoon). Unfortunately that high temperature may have gone into the climatological record as having happened on June 1, since that is the date of the report. Additionally, data may be time shifted for only a portion of a location's history.
An additional problem at Bowling Green is that there have been many observers over the years, occasionally simultaneously, and a difference can arise depending on which observer's data are used.
These issues are not present at Louisville and Lexington.
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