Extreme Heat and Fire Weather Conditions in the West; Heavy Rain in the Southeast; Poor Air Quality

Extreme heat will begin to peak across the Desert Southwest. Multiple days of hot, dry and windy conditions are expected to bring fire weather concerns for portions of the Four Corners region into the central Great Basin and Rockies. Heavy rainfall and a flash flooding threat continues in the Southeast. Poor air quality persists from the Upper Midwest into the Northeast due to wildfire smoke. Read More >

A wet and unseasonably mild pattern is in store for today and tomorrow. A boundary stretched out along the length of Kentucky will lift north as a warm front today ushering in a very mild air mass which may bring temperatures that challenge records today through Monday. Below is a table with record temperatures for today through tomorrow followed by the 2 Day Outlook for Louisville, Lexington, Bowling Green, and Frankfort:

	Dec 25th Record Highs	Dec 26th Record Warm Lows	Dec 26th Record Highs
Louisville	68 (1893)	55 (1971)	70 (1942)
Lexington	70 (1982)	52 (1971)	71 (1942)
Bowling Green	70 (1982)	56 (1904)	73 (2015)
Frankfort	70 (1982)	50 (1973)	72 (1942)