WHAS11 Weather Impact Live | Tuesday, May 19, 2026

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[00:00:24]Welcome to Weather Impact Live. I'm meteorologist Matt Willoughby. Thank you for joining us uh once again for this Tuesday. Uh we got a weather impact alert day to tell you about that we'll be breaking down on uh some of the details of this weather impact alert day including a look at how much rain is on the way for us. We did see uh quite a bit of rain out into southern Indiana just yesterday. Uh we had some flash flood warnings uh some radar estimated totals were uh closer to around 3 to 4 inches of rainfall. So, we uh didn't get necessarily complete uh totals of what exactly fell did fall, but uh we are keeping an eye on at least uh the rainy weather we've seen so far this week. So, uh we got another rainy day uh for us going throughout today. And so, let's break it down. So, as you give you a look outside right now, um we did see honestly some sunshine. We saw decent sunshine this throughout this morning, but clouds have moved back in and kind of made it a kind of dreary, warm day outside. So, we're continuing to see some nice conditions already into the lower 80s, but feel like temperatures into the mid 80s. Look at those D points, man. It is You probably can cut the air with a knife. It is so humid outside. It's 69 degrees for a Dupoint, and that's just straight humid. Anytime you get to the 70s, yeah, that's when it gets really, really, you know, just humid outside. So, actually, I'm going try to pull up our Dupoint map. see if I can find it here to just show you how much humidity we are seeing across the area um for today. That is so yeah, almost 70% you know humidity and 67% uh into Louisville. So man, it is just really humid outside honestly. We're going to continue to see uh these humid conditions throughout the next, you know, couple of days, honestly. So yeah, just be prepared for that for sure. Um, let me see if I can get this humidity map up if I can find it. Yep, found it right here. So, let's take a look at it.

[00:02:19]Um, man, that is some really humid air right there. You know, anytime you're into the upper 60s, uh, you're in the lower 70s in Memphis, that's extremely humid. Uh, which could cause a lot of some, I'd say, instability in the atmosphere, a lot of those storms to develop. But, man, yeah, all the way up in Detroit, 68 degrees for due points.

[00:02:40]Um, anytime you start to see kind of those dark greens, the blues, that's when Yeah, it's it feels almost wet outside without it raining. So, oh man, that is that is some humid air. So, let's take a look at um at least the weather headlines we're tracking for you. Some PM storms. Of course, it is election day, so we're seeing some uh PM storms out there. Some rain will roll in once again for tomorrow, and we're looking at uh essentially a daily rain chance every single day. So, let's look at that election day forecast and throughout this afternoon and at least tell you what to expect. Of course, uh back about about 400 p.m. we'll be into the upper 80s. It'll be really a warm uh election day to be honest with you.

[00:03:20]We'll see temperatures closer to 90° warming up uh still throughout tonight and a few showers and a few isolated showers and storms will be uh rolling in for us as we go throughout uh this afternoon and into the evening hours.

[00:03:32]So, a very wet pattern ahead. We're talking uh virtually rain chances every single day this week. Um that's a very wet pattern and storms by the weekend.

[00:03:42]Uh that's what we're tracking at least for the weekend as so let's give you a look at satellite and radar tell you show you what we're really seeing out there for you. Uh we saw some decent sunshine pass through this morning. Um but now we were kind of left with clouds moving back into our area. So, um, we got some showers and storms off to the west that's, you know, causing some storms and really a line of storms throughout Springfield now into Little Rock. So, uh, that's where we're seeing quite a bit of those storms really develop, but that's not really reaching reaching our area. A lot of that is expected to dive south. But what's going to developed right here as we I can press now. So, this is going to be interesting. We're seeing some clouds right now, but we're seeing some clear skies though right into I could zoom in right here. That's going to cause a lot of incidentally that's going to cause the atmosphere to really warm up and um h I was about to sneeze and uh see likely those storms to roll in for us. So that's what we're seeing in Evansville up 69. That's some sunshine.

[00:04:48]You don't want to see that. So we got a few showers though. um just uh south of our area, Etown, Barstown, got a few spotty showers. Nothing too crazy. I mean, but we'll take the rain where we can get it. Uh now, we do have a weather impact alert day for this evening. Um we do have for Tuesday evening and night, our weather impact alert day. We'll see some downpours, some gusty winds. Uh so, just have multiple ways to receive those alerts um as we go throughout um this uh Tuesday. That is so track the radar. We do have our live radar. That's a really good component. I know a lot of people watch that to where you can see the live radar 24/7 around the clock. Uh and you can be able to track that, you know, from the palm of your hand on the website or you can see that just kind of have it as background noise on your TV.

[00:05:35]So that's a really good tool we like to use. Um so let's get a look at our SBC.

[00:05:41]Now this Storm Prediction Center outlook, it is wide. It is long. We're talking about a slight risk that stretches from Texas all the way to Michigan all the way to New York essentially almost to Toronto. Like this is a very large area for a slight risk just cuz um where this is where the cold front is going to line up. This is also where the warm front is. So that's where you're going to have a lot of storms line up and spark up along this area where you see the yellow. So yeah, I mean this is tech. This is basically essentially of course we only SPC only do does United States, but this is a SBC that stretches almost to Mexico to Canada. It it basically is it's to Mexico Canada border the U or US Canada border to the Mexico US border. Um this is a large area for um some storms to be rolling in uh to.

[00:06:37]So yeah, everyone just need to be stay weather aware, stay stay alert. We're talking I mean San Angelo, Dallas, Arkansas, Little Rock, Memphis, right here in Louisville, Paduka, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Detroit, up to Buffalo.

[00:06:53]There's a lot of cities involved in this. A lot of people. So, uh, don't get caught in these storms. This is going to be a very big area to to, you know, really watch for storms for. Uh, give you a closer look throughout our area, though. Louisville is in that slight two out of five risk. Madison is in it. Uh most of southern Indiana really is into that um slight risk. Brandenburg's in it. Hardensburg Hardensburg is in that and Newcastle. So that's where we're seeing the most of that rain. And like I talked about, we just have a simply wet pattern on the way for us. That's what you know we've been looking at over the last couple of days is just a very wet pattern. We didn't have rain chances in for Thursday, not necessarily, but now we do. So what happened Thursday now into the forecast for rain that essentially marks almost six straight days of rain. So we got rain today, we got rain tomorrow, we got rain Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

[00:07:47]Yeah, that's a lot of rain. Um so we'll be breaking that down. Uh also the chance for some storms this weekend that we'll be looking at too. So I'll give you a quick look at um at least the forecast, what to expect. So, it's kind of been jumping around a little bit, but a few of those storms are going to start to pop up around 4:30 this afternoon.

[00:08:07]So, that's the earliest. I'd say our far western counties will start to see some storms by about 6:00. So, Bedford, uh, Polioli, Jasper seeing some storms and then they quickly make its way into our area. I mean, not everyone will see some storms. That's why we said more scattered storms than, you know, widespread uh storms. So, we're talking spotty scattered storms. Not everyone going to even get some rain. And then that continues throughout about 11:00 tonight. And then a few more showers do roll in for us throughout southern Indiana. So, more rain is on the way, southern Indiana. Get ready for that.

[00:08:41]And then we got rain roll in for once again Wednesday. Um, this is going to be the start of honestly some wet conditions for Wednesday. We'll have rain in the late morning hours and then that rain just keeps on coming. Just keeps on coming. And uh that Wednesday will be likely one of our wetest days we'll see uh of the of the week so far.

[00:09:03]So that's where you know if we do see some rain, if we do see likely some storms, we'll be able to tell you about it. Today more storms. Uh tomorrow is more you know rain uh that we are tracking for you. So uh highs today.

[00:09:19]Let's break that down real quick and then we'll take a short break. But it's going to be a warm day. I will be honest with you. Um, another warm day. Possible shot at 90 again. Didn't reach it yesterday. We didn't reach it Sunday.

[00:09:32]Um, we saw 89 for a high at the airport on Sunday. We saw I was like, man, I hope we, you know, do break the record.

[00:09:39]Of course, it's hot, but I was like, now, okay, did we, you know, not break the record, but did we reach 90 Monday?

[00:09:45]Didn't reach it 89 again. So, we have not seen our first 90°ree day just yet.

[00:09:51]I mean, we had another shot at it today, so we'll see if we can make it there.

[00:09:56]But either way you look at it, warm, humid air. It's 90°. Going to be 90° in Louisville. Uh 86 degrees for highs in Shelbyville, 87 in Springfield, Lebanon at 88 degrees. 87 Hajenville, and even into uh places like Hardensburg, Lichfield. Everybody kind of seeing mid to upper 80s um for uh today. That is. So, back into tonight, uh we'll actually see some cooler weather uh rolling in for tonight. So, um we'll be into the upper 60s. So, not as cold, but if you wake up tomorrow morning, a lot of the humidity will be out of here. And I mean out of here. So, uh a lot of humidity is getting wiped away and it's going to be kind of cleaned out again with some nice cool air for um Wednesday. That is. So, we're only seeing highs likely into the upper 50s for Wednesday or upper, sorry, upper, uh, 60s and lower 70s for Wednesday. So, uh, that's where we're seeing some much cooler conditions, almost 15 degrees colder. So, get ready for that. If you like the heat, it'll come back possibly by the weekend. But if you don't, this is just for you. If you like take naps, have the rain, oh, this is perfect for you. So, we'll be keeping an eye on that and uh kind of breaking down what the forecast looks like for the rest of the week as well.

[00:11:13]But uh until then, we'll be right back just after this short break.

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[00:13:30]All right, welcome back. It's Tuesday, election day. Um, we'll be this really just breaking down the forecast today.

[00:13:39]Uh, this is weather impact live. I'm meteorologist Matthew Willoughby. Just solo by myself again today. So, a lot of people are busy, you know, vacations doing election stuff. So, you're just here with me today. So, hope you enjoy.

[00:13:55]Uh, let's get back to the forecast, though, and uh kind of show you what we're what we're looking at right now.

[00:14:00]Um, so here's look at temperatures right now. It's it's uh warming up again.

[00:14:04]Charleston's at 84 degrees. Rowan Oak at 83 degrees. Um, Louisville is at 81. So kind of the warmer spot. Cincinnati, Dayton, Fort Wayne, all into the 70s.

[00:14:16]Uh, throughout Kentucky. Uh, only cool spot is Jackson. Fort Campa's always warm. Seems like they always got a warm temperature reading out there. It's already 85 degrees. Uh, Lexington's at 80. Bowling Greens at 82. and Nashville at 85. So, we warming up nicely. Now, if you look far uh to the north uh to the top left corner of your screen, you can see some cool air right there. Yeah, that's the cold front. Uh so, I mean, just between De Moines and if you're familiar with Iowa, just between De Moines and the Quad Cities, it's a 18 degree difference. That's how a cold front works. And it is coming. Um, Quatz is at 71°, De Moine at 53°. So, yeah, quite the difference out there. We're going to see that this area right here that's really going to start to warm up once again. So, this is that warm sector right now that we're tracking. Um, that we're seeing some at least warmer conditions across the area. So, that's where, you know, we got not I wouldn't say heat wave, but definitely warming trend. Uh, that is for us as we go throughout today. So, let's break down a few things again. Um as we go throughout today, we'll, you know, see the very wet pattern start off today is kicking off today and those rain chances will pretty much be every day. Um storm chances by the weekend. And what it looks like, of course, we have do have a weather impact alert day for today. That is so our scattered to strong storms will arrive this evening back into tonight. So looking at some downpours, possible chance of some localized flooding. Uh the heav the biggest threat is wind. um that's going to be our biggest threat with some gusty to damaging winds. So that's what we'll be tracking for you.

[00:15:57]Have multiple say ways to receive those alerts just in case you do need uh to be protected. Um and make sure you also track that radar. You can do that scan a QR code. You can do that on your website, your TV, and I want to say your phone as well. You can look at that live radar 24/7. It's live 24/7. So if you don't know how to work radar, we work it for you. You can just pull that up and then you can see where the rain is, current time, and what it's expected to look like. So if you want to, you know, have any plans in place like, hey, I want to go to the park, but what it's going to be like, you just turn that on, finding out the futurecast plays, I think every 30, 40 seconds. So you'll be able to see that pretty periodically.

[00:16:33]Plus, we have uh the hourly times at the bottom where you can see the weather conditions over the next several hours.

[00:16:40]So uh we do we are under a um slight risk for severe weather. two out of five slight risk uh for us as we uh kind of see the wide range of this. So this is stretching all the way from Texas up to New York. Uh so basically almost border to border uh with uh the system right now. So this is a part of a cold front, part of a warm front kind of coming together uh to make for some possible volatile weather. So, we'll be, you know, really looking at that and uh checking that out and seeing what we can do uh as far as um as far as how the weather will end up. So, uh I'll be breaking that down again and seeing, you know, what we can do with that. Um if you of course want to know what the storm timing is, then okay, let's let's dive into that and really show you what to expect for um these next couple of hours. So, here we go. Right here. Uh, we'll start to see some of those storms develop around 4:30 out west and then, uh, as we go throughout about 6:30, some of those storms, front line, of those storms will roll in to Bedford, Poli, and then likely those storms out that you see right here into far south Indiana into Illinois, they start to push their way into our area. So Seymour, Poli, Jasper at your doorstep around 7:30 and then they move, they kind of break up a little bit and then they move into Louisville, probably north of Louisville, Tel City, uh, you know, just south of Frankfurt. So what I was, you know, explaining for this morning is they're going to be very scattered.

[00:18:18]They're going to be kind of isolated.

[00:18:20]Not everyone will see rain just like yesterday. It was um, you know, I think Mallerie was saying, "Hey, I didn't get any of the viewers like, "Hey, I didn't get any rain yesterday." But because all the rain was in southern Indiana, like they got all the rain. It was really strictly staying right above the Ohio River. I mean, we might have got some raindrops, some areas of rain here in Louisville, but even South Louisville didn't see any rain just how crazy uh it lined up. So, not everyone will see rain today. Um there will be some areas very isolated spotty areas that does that will see the storms um at a with the timeline about 5 to 10 but not everyone will see it. Will we see more rain though? Yes, we are going to see more rain throughout 4:30 to 5 a.m. in the morning for your Wednesday.

[00:19:07]And that'll be our next shot of you know some widespread showers. we'll get a break in the rain, but then about 12:00, 11:00, 12:00, that's when we'll start to see more filling in of the rain uh for Wednesday. So, that that continues to push through in the morning hours.

[00:19:23]Afternoon, you're looking at some just general showers really, not nothing that's, you know, to be scared of, just some general showers uh going in towards uh really most of Wednesday, all of uh Wednesday, honestly. So, that's a kind of a wet day. And then we turn our attention to what's expected for the next couple of days. So I just showed you Tuesday, just showed you Wednesday.

[00:19:45]That's going to be the rain that's rolling in. Continue to roll in for Wednesday. But it's Thursday. We'll see some isolated very isolated showers. Um if you need to get out and do something, Thursday is going to be the day to do it. Um, we'll see some showers here and there, but I mean lower 70s, mostly cloudy, but mostly dry is uh what we're tracking for you. But as we know, rain is coming.

[00:20:13]Friday, we're starting this off early.

[00:20:15]6:00 a.m. Got some rain. When does it move out? It'll be a while. This is 12:00 p.m. Still got rain. This is 3:00 p.m. It's still raining. It is going to be a wet day Friday. 6 p.m. It's still raining. It's 10:00 a.m. or 10 p.m. It's still going to be raining all day on Friday. Friday is like a wash out over day. That's what we got about 80% chance of rain for uh Friday. That is I mean this rain still continues well into Saturday into you know Saturday night into Sunday and then we get some breaks heading towards about 400 pm on Sunday.

[00:20:51]So that's where man it's it's not going to be a good Memorial Day weekend with just how much rain we got. So we'll try to get rid of that and just kind of figure out where we can go from there, what how much rain we're expected to see and how much um if that will any cause any of a localized flooding threat as well. So we'll be breaking that down coming up in just a few minutes just after this short break.

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[00:23:43]All right, welcome back. We're right under the corner here on our weather impact live show. Uh you can join us at noon if you want more weather kind of give you details of uh what we're seeing for the next couple of hours heading towards this afternoon. So, uh, just kind of our more conversational way of giving you the weather to be honest. Uh, so it's just me today. We'll have Austin, meteorologist Austin Evans back tomorrow. We'll have, uh, Matt Breland back tomorrow. Um, so it's just me kind of hanging out with you today. So, hope you don't mind. All right. So, uh, what we're talking about is kind of the wet pattern ahead for you. I can actually go through the hourby hour real quick and the futurecast one more time again uh, before we close out. So, uh, these are the storms for our weather impact alert that we alert day that we've been tracking where, uh, we'll have a few spotty storms roll in for us throughout tonight about 9:30 this evening. Um, they expect to be very spotty. I mean, some areas won't see the rain. Some areas won't see the storms. They'll be, you know, you'll be able to see them in the distance, but they may not even reach you. And then uh I was talking about how we'll have some rain rolling in for us as we go throughout uh the morning hours of Wednesday. So we'll have uh at least some uh storms, a few showers rolling in for Wednesday. Uh those kick up really around 1:00, 12:30 to 1:00. And then after that, man, it's just rain, rain, rain all the way through uh the evening hours on Wednesday. So that's where we are seeing a lot of just rain in general and uh wet conditions. But like I said, it doesn't stop there really. Um this is kind of a longer range model. Of course, this will start to get really kind of defined as we go throughout uh the next couple of days. So um Thursday will be a little bit more defined by by the time we get there and also Friday uh to see what we're really dealing with here. So Friday, man, that looks like a really wet day. We're talking um all rain all day. Um this is, you know, just wet.

[00:25:43]It's, you know, starting off at 6:00.

[00:25:45]It's 4:00 p.m. We're still seeing rain that's still rolling in. Still rain overnight into Saturday. And this is that type of setup that could cause some flooding issues. So, that's where we, you know, we got to purely pay attention. We'll let you know those issues. But, I mean, this is another, you know, Saturday where it's just raining. It's just raining, raining, raining, non-stop rain. So, this is one of the more active patterns we'll see all year to be honest with you. It's it's, you know, it's a wet pattern. It's essentially rain chances every single day. Um, so as far as rain potential, kind of take this with a grain of salt as uh rain potential can kind of be a little bit um not as accurate, but it gives you an estimate of where the rain could end up uh over the next 7 days.

[00:26:30]So, of course, 7 days out sometimes not the best accurate, but this shows how much rain we expect to see. So, rain potential, um, it's anywhere from 4 to 5 ines of rainfall over the next 7 days.

[00:26:41]That's not saying that, you know, we're going to see three inches this way day.

[00:26:45]It could be very spread out to where we see an inch, two inches maybe here every day, maybe a half an inch. So, um this is going to be interesting to see if this really comes true uh to how much rain that we uh this this model is really forecasting because man that that's a lot of rain. So, um but you know with that much rain, we also have the chances really higher. So, we going 60% chance for Tuesday into Wednesday.

[00:27:11]We dropped that down to 30 for what?

[00:27:12]Thursday and then we're back up to 80.

[00:27:14]So 80 is the one. That's the really, you know, solid wash out of a day for Friday. And then by Saturday, we're still holding about 6% chance of rain.

[00:27:23]So I know Memorial Day is coming up. I know people like to have like kind of that unofficial start to summer, but man, it is is really going to be a wet one um come this uh Memorial Day back into your Saturday into Sunday. So let's give you a look at that 7-day forecast.

[00:27:40]Overall, hot day for today, 90°. Go out and vote for sure. It's election day, so yeah, definitely get out and vote. We'll have some showers and storms this afternoon and evening. We drop down to the mid70s, lower 70s for your Thursday, back into the upper 70s with some showers and storms for Friday. It warms up a little bit heading towards the weekend. Saturday and Sunday, lower 80s, and then for Memorial Day next week, Monday with a few more shower chances and storm chances as temperatures will be into the upper 70s. So, thank you so much.