Severe Thunderstorm Threat From the Central Plains to the Northeast; Extreme HeatRisk for the East Coast

Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible from the central Plains to the Northeast through this evening. Widespread damaging winds are the primary threat but hail and a tornado or two is also possible. Extremely dangerous heat continues across the Eastern U.S. Warm overnight low temperatures will provide little to no relief. Read More >

This July was warmer than normal, though no one day was more than 10 degrees above average at the main climate sites. High temperatures were consistently in the 80s and 90s through the month. The hottest temperature at the five climate sites listed below was 96° at Louisville Muhammad Ali on the 19th and 20th. The 19th and 20th were the hottest days of the month throughout most of central Kentucky and southern Indiana. The coolest high temperature of the month at the five climate sites was 80° in Lexington on the 23rd.

Severe weather was mostly restricted to sporadic wind damage reports on six days of the month, with nothing after the 16th.

	Average Temperature	Departure from Normal	Precipitation	Departure from Normal
Bowling Green	79.7°	+1.0°	3.89"	-0.21"
Frankfort	78.9°	+2.6°	4.49"	+0.10"
Lexington	78.8°	+2.6°	3.54"	-1.11"
Louisville Bowman	80.0°	+2.2°	2.81"	-1.36"
Louisville Muhammad Ali	81.6°	+2.3°	1.31"	-2.92"

Records

16th: Record warm low of 74° at Frankfort
19th: Record warm low of 76° at Frankfort, record warm low of 75° at Lexington
20th: Record warm low of 74° at Frankfort
30th: Rainfall of 1.79" at Frankfort

10th warmest July on record at Louisville

familiarization trip to Fort Knox

Meteorologist-in-Charge of the Louisville NWS forecast office is shown here standing behind our summer students during a trip to visit weather observers at Fort Knox. Pictured from left to right: Christine Aiena, Melissa Piper, Olivia Cahill, Kristine Chen, CJ Padgett, and Evan Hatter.