National Weather Service United States Department of Commerce

Heavy to Excessive Rains in The Four Corners Region and Midwest; Heat Persists in the South-Central U.S.

Repeated rounds of showers and thunderstorms could bring a flash flooding threat across the Four Corners region and from the mid-Mississippi Valley into the lower Great Lakes. Hot temperatures and high humidity will continue to challenge daily records from the Southern Plains to the lower Mississippi Valley. Read More >

You may be wondering, just how windy has it been this year...it seems like there have been a lot of wind advisories?  The graphic below indicates where 2016, from January 1st to present, compares to similar times period back to 1971 at Louisville International Airport.  To date, there have been 38 days with peak wind gusts greater than or equal to 30 mph, whereas there have been 10 days with peak wind gusts greater than or equal to 40 mph!  There is still a chance that winds may top 30 mph the rest of this evening, as a cold front approaches our region.