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06/11/2026

Crittenden County hit a 78 dewpoint today. That air came all the way from Canada and it feels like wet broccoli. Tonight a weak line of storms busts that water balloon wide open. Friday morning? Gone. Western Kentucky finally gets to breathe.

06/10/2026

Feels like soup from Mayfield to Paducah? Picture the air as a box packed with humidity, trapped low with no rain to rinse it out. A front tomorrow crams it tighter. Friday clears and feels great, so plan anything outside for then. Peace of Mind. Storm or Shine.

06/09/2026

If you worked the corn around Wickliffe, La Center, or Kevil this afternoon, you felt what the thermometer could not show you. The air did not feel like air. That shirt-soaking weight was a 78 degree dewpoint, the oppressive end of the scale.

Folks blame the corn, and corn sweat is real, but ours is still young in June, so today’s mugginess was mostly deep Gulf moisture. With a heat index near 105 and a Heat Advisory through this evening, drink more water than you think you need, find the shade, and check on your older neighbors.

06/08/2026

West KY Storm Chase 6/8/26 b

06/08/2026

West KY Storm Chase 6/8/26

06/08/2026

Broccoli has been the talk of Paducah weather this week, so here is the science. When a storm cloud grows a top like hard, bright white broccoli, that crisp cauliflower texture means a strong updraft is at work. The harder and whiter it looks, the stronger the storm.

Look up this afternoon, western Kentucky. We are under a Flood Watch through Tuesday morning, so give the heavy rain plenty of room and check on the folks down the road.

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06/07/2026

Hot and humid weather here and ahead for west Kentucky. Could feel like over 100 in the afternoons next week with pop-up (and fall down with gusty winds) storms. Maybe Father’s Day will be dry?

06/05/2026

Drought-smought. Held a water bottle up to the Ohio River like it was the last water for 100 miles. The tree is fine too.

Western Kentucky finally gets a soaking: rain Sunday through Tuesday, an inch or more likely, just ordinary summer storms, maybe some gusty winds when they fall apart.

Then it turns hot and humid late week with a heat index near 100.

06/04/2026

Hard to sell a drought when the Ohio River’s full and everything from Paducah to Mayfield is green, I know. But hear me out, neighbors. That recent rain was a real blessing and pulled a lot of us out of the worst of it. The thing is, the green you’re seeing is runoff, not recovery. Only slow, soaking rain refills the deep soil that gets us through August. Good news: we’ve got four straight days of rain chances starting this weekend, and that steady soak is exactly what we need. We’re better, and maybe about to get better still.

06/03/2026

If you watched Friday evening’s storm spin up over Mayfield and then fall apart, here is why. We had the fuel and we had strong wind shear down low to get it spinning, even a brief hook echo on radar. But the shear up high was too weak to hold it together, so each storm collapsed under its own rain in twenty or thirty minutes. Looked rough for a minute, never a real threat.

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