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09/03/2026

Barkley Regional in Paducah has not recorded a 100 degree air temperature since August 29, 2024. That is 735 days, and it covers every hot afternoon in Mayfield, Murray, Benton, Bardwell, Clinton, Wickliffe, Hickman, and Fulton since then.
The heat index this week runs 105 to 110 across Graves, McCracken, Calloway, Marshall, Carlisle, Ballard, Hickman, and Fulton counties, and that number is dangerous on its own terms. Overnight lows in the mid 70s will not give anybody much relief overnight, so please check on the neighbors who do not have working air conditioning, and on the ones who do but are trying to make the bill stretch.
The heat index and the thermometer are two different measurements. Getting Paducah from 95 to 100 is harder than it sounds, because the same humidity that drives the heat index toward 110 is the same humidity that keeps the air temperature down. Moisture in the air soaks up energy that would otherwise go into heating it.
Paducah has kept records since December of 1937, and fewer than four years in ten have ever touched 100.
Friday’s forecast high is 99 in Paducah and 99 in Mayfield. Saturday is 98.
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09/02/2026

You do not need me to tell you it is hot. You need me to tell you how hot, and for how long, and whether the weekend fixes it.

At five o'clock this afternoon Mayfield sat at 96.6 degrees with a 68.5 degree dew point, which works out to a heat index of 102. Paducah was worse at 96.8 with a dew point of 71.6 and a heat index of 105. Thursday and Friday look almost identical, near 98 both days, and the part nobody talks about is the overnight. Lows are only dropping to 75 or 76 in Mayfield, Wingo, Water Valley, Fancy Farm, Symsonia, and Benton. That is ten to fifteen degrees above normal for early September, and it means your house, your truck, and your body never actually cool off between afternoons. The heat warning runs through 8 PM Saturday.

Now the weekend. A backdoor front slides down from the northeast Saturday, and there is a real chance of showers and storms across Graves, Marshall, Calloway, McCracken, Carlisle, Ballard, Hickman, and Fulton counties. I am not going to sell you rain I cannot promise. The odds of getting more than a tenth of an inch out of it are somewhere around one in four, and the front only knocks the temperature down a few degrees; however, even a few degrees off a 98 is worth having. Sunday and Monday still run a heat index near 100.

So the face you are watching in this video is the face of a man reading his own forecast and not liking it. Check on the older folks on your road. Move the outside work to before ten in the morning. If you have livestock or a garden, water in the evening.

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09/01/2026

It is ninety six degrees in Mayfield today and an extreme heat warning covers all eight Purchase counties through Saturday evening, which is exactly the week somebody decides to post a snow map for January. You have probably seen one already, a colored map of the whole country with western Kentucky buried under some number and a caption promising a historic winter.

Here is what the official outlook actually says about snow in Mayfield. Nothing at all. The government publishes odds for temperature and odds for precipitation across a three month window, and that is where it stops, because snowfall totals are not something anybody can forecast past about a week.

What we have instead is climate history. December through February in Paducah averages seven and a half inches of snow. On January fifteenth of 2018 a single system stalled over the region and dropped eight point one inches at the Paducah office in about twelve hours of steady snow. One day beat an average winter.

Nobody knows what this January looks like, including me. Anybody telling you otherwise in September is guessing.

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08/31/2026

There is no getting around this one. It is going to be hot in the Purchase all week.

Daily heat indexes will peak between 100 and near 110 degrees each day. Tuesday runs about 96 in Mayfield with a heat index near 105. Wednesday and Thursday are the top of it, both near 97 from Wickliffe to Benton to Murray. Friday holds at 96. The afternoon is not the part that gets people. We do not cool off at night, with lows only around 74 to 76 all week, so the body never gets its recovery window.

There is a low chance of isolated to scattered storms Friday and Saturday. Those are being written up as possible relief from the heat.

Now the good news. Sunday drops to around 92. Labor Day is looking like a high near 91 with the heat index topping out in the middle 90s. Not cool. Just livable.

The advice this week is to drink water, stay in the air conditioning, stay out of the sun, and check on your relatives and neighbors. That last one is the actual job. If somebody on your road is elderly or lost a unit this summer, knock on the door Wednesday afternoon.

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08/28/2026

Wednesday night, 8/19/26, we had tornado warnings out across McCracken County. At 11:35 the ground moved. Magnitude 2.3, eight miles down, a mile and a half from West Paducah and six from Kevil. Twenty three miles north of Mayfield.

People started calling it a tor-quake.

So I ran the numbers myself. A tornado is an intense low pressure core, but it is only a couple hundred yards wide, and a load that narrow does not reach eight miles down. It spreads out and dies on the way. By the time it gets to the fault, the strongest tornado we get here is pushing with about a quarter of a pascal.

A sheet of notebook paper lying on your kitchen table pushes three times harder.

Here is the part I did not expect. The plain high pressure sitting over Graves County today, the boring blue sky kind nobody makes a video about, is loading the New Madrid fault about twelve thousand times harder than that tornado did.

The scariest thing in the sky barely registered.

08/27/2026

Everybody is calling it a blood moon. Tonight is a deep partial, and a bright sliver of the moon never goes dark at all.

Ninety six percent of the lunar disk slides into Earth’s shadow. The covered part turns copper because the only sunlight still reaching it has bent through our atmosphere first. It is every sunrise and sunset happening on Earth at once, all of it landing on one rock.

Moonrise over Mayfield is 7:19. The shadow starts biting at 9:34 with the moon about 24 degrees up in the southeast. Deepest at 11:13, higher and more to the south. The last of it clears at 12:52.

Sky cover at Mayfield holds at 14 percent at nine o’clock, 13 at ten, 9 at eleven and 9 at midnight. Rain chance is zero every hour. Graves, McCracken, Calloway and Marshall are all sitting under the same clear high tonight.

One catch for anybody bringing a camera. Humidity climbs to 97 percent by ten and saturates after midnight. Ground fog is going to pool in the creek bottoms and the river flats. If you are setting up low near Mayfield Creek or the Clarks River, get out of the bottom before nine. If you are on Kentucky Lake, the open water to the east buys you a clean horizon early.

You do not need glasses or a filter for this one. Just look up.

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08/26/2026

Two words went around western Kentucky last week, and a lot of people used them like they meant different kinds of storms. Microburst and macroburst are the same thing. Cold air falls out of a thunderstorm, hits the ground, and spreads out in every direction. The only difference is how wide that spread gets. Under two and a half miles across, it is a microburst. Wider than that, it is a macroburst. Micro describes the width and nothing else, which is why a microburst can still run over one hundred miles an hour and take a roof off. The one that came down northwest of Cunningham last Wednesday night and ran east southeast across northern Graves County toward Lowes and Folsomdale was almost eight miles wide and eighteen and a half miles long, with winds of eighty to one hundred five. The worst of it ended a little ways east of Highway 45. That is why so many roads closed at the same time instead of one at a time.
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08/25/2026

Noticeably lower humidity this week is working in our favor! 🌦️
Many families across Western Kentucky have been concerned about severe wind threats following recent storms. Here is the meteorological reality: the mid-70s dew points that fueled previous windstorms are gone. Lower dew points mean less atmospheric energy.
While tomorrow morning will bring a soaking rain, the severe windstorm threat tomorrow night is extremely unlikely. Expect a manageable, average day once the morning rain clears out.

08/24/2026

My best image of the funnel cloud south of Mayfield last Wednesday night. Two quiet days ahead, then storm chances Wednesday evening running 20 to 30 percent. Isolated pop up storms, not a repeat of last week. The weekend turned dry and hot instead of stormy, which gives Graves County more time to finish cleaning up.
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08/21/2026

Supercells formed over Mayfield on Wednesday night, 8/19-20/2026, after the main line blew through. There may have even been brief funnel clouds, but it’s really hard to tell in the lightning flashes. I’ll let you decide. Do you think this was a funnel cloud south of Mayfield on Wednesday night around 2:30 a.m.? If so, comment below. Weather brother, peace of mind, Storm or Shine.

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