14First Alert at 9

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[00:00:23]There we go. Waiting for Facebook again.

[00:00:26]We are now live here. This is the 14 First Alert Weather Show at 9:00 Thursday, May the 28th. I'm glad you're here. If you have comments, concerns, questions, jokes, riddles, limicks, whatever you want, you can put them in the 14 News uh Facebook page comment section, and we'll get to those in just a bit. We have had a perfect summer day in my estimation. It was warm, but not too warm. Humid just the right amount. I mowed the grass this morning, sweated.

[00:00:55]You know, that's that's all good. And uh we didn't have any rain today either. It was dry uh from a rain perspective.

[00:01:03]Still kind of damp out there at least through the morning. And that dampness may lead to some patchy fog tonight, followed up by uh some spotty rainfall on Friday afternoon, tomorrow afternoon and evening. And then we get into a sunny and pleasant weekend. And much of next week looks like it'll be the same with temperatures pretty much in the 80s the whole time. Uh nothing really to rock the boat here uh with regard to our weather and all the rain that we were dealing with yesterday got shoved down here to the south west of the tri-state and as I'll show you here in a minute we have kind of a funky backdoor cold front that has developed and pushed the rain even farther west for tonight other than some patchy fog. No weather worries tomorrow. Maybe some scattered showers during the afternoon. Uh and then we dry out and enjoy mostly to partly sunny skies all the way through Sunday. Right now we're showing around 75 to 80 across the tri-state. Owensboro still pretty warm there at 80 and Henderson's at 79.

[00:02:08]Newberg 78. Uh we will likely cool it down into the upper to mid60s overnight.

[00:02:15]Probably around 64 to 65 degrees with the due point there. 74 is our current temp uh here at the station. We were down to 66 this morning. A little bit of fog, but not not an issue really, I don't think, for the commute. And then we managed to get 87 degrees this afternoon, which uh when you look at it is slightly cooler than we were yesterday at this time. Uh we were warmer than normal this morning and um a couple degrees above the typical this afternoon. 81 is the normal high. We probably won't see any more significant rainfall this month. there really isn't an opening or an opportunity for it. Uh we've certainly had warm and cool days leaning more toward the cool and that has put our average temperature for the month slightly cooler than normal about by an inch and a about a degree and a half. And our rainfall is going to come up about an inch and a half uh below where it should be. The drought monitor did update today as it does every Thursday. And good news, uh, that rain that we had last week did the trick, at least for much of southwest Indiana, we still have abnormally dry, uh, all the way down here into the, uh, northern part of of Kentucky. And then the drought conditions become a little more, uh, severe as you move into the southern edge of Muenberg, all of Ohio, and uh, and I said Muenberg, I meant Mlan, Muenberg, and Hopkins counties there.

[00:03:47]So, um, we definitely could still use rain, but at least we bought a little time there with our wet previous week.

[00:03:55]The low pressure that's churning up these showers and storms is being pushed backwards uh, by the high that's coming down out of Lake uh, Michigan. And we call that a backdoor cold front. In other words, it's going the wrong way. I had trouble drawing this today because the machine defaults to drawing a front like this, right? Generally, when you're marking up a map, your front, your cold front will go roughly from northeast down to the southwest. And so, the barbs then would go that way. So, when I drew it that way, the bar the barbs are pointing in the wrong direction. I kind of had to stand on my head and take off my shoes to get the map to work. Um, because it it is this is not a normal uh thing. I mean, they do. We get back door fronts. It just uh we don't draw them very often, I guess, is the problem.

[00:04:44]Now, as we go into Sunday and Monday, as that high digs a little farther south, we may get just enough of a fetch of moisture and that front will have washed out by then that we may have a little better chance for some scattered showers maybe on Sunday. Next week looks dry though and sunny with temperatures in the lower 80s. And both the GFS and European models are very uh conservative here on any rain chances until late next week. and the rainfall uh potential there locked up uh at about a half an inch for the GFS model. The European much drier and similar setup there with maybe a few showers on Sunday. That went by pretty quick, but uh again, we're looking out almost 7 days. So, you know, we're just kind of giving a broad broad strokes uh approach to it here right now. And rain amounts on the European are very low, too. So, I'm expecting a low of about 63 to 65 tonight, uh, with a few clouds overhead and some patchy fog. 82 tomorrow and then more of the same. Basically, uh, the carbon copy all the way down the line. Uh, carbon copy is kind of an oldtimey phrase, isn't it?

[00:05:57]I don't think anybody uses carbon paper anymore. Probably a lot of people don't even know what it is, but back in the day, you had this sheet of paper that had a little carbon on it, right? It was some kind of wax or whatever. It was black and you when you typed on a typewriter, it would punch through and you get a copy. Isn't that wild? Little trivia here. I probably most of our uh regular 14 News at 9ine folks would already know that or probably have used carbon paper at some point. Uh, I think the only place I've seen carbon paper used in modern time was at the dentist office. I had to bite on something. They I I got a filling. First filling in my life. It was 60 years old and they drilled a tooth. But I had to bite on this carbon paper, I guess, so they could make the thing. Anyway, oh, I got a pet Whoops. Don't have pet pick yet.

[00:06:46]We have warmer than normal temperatures through the 11th. And we have um near normal rainfall, too. Maybe a little less than that. All right. All right, we have a mystery pet pick tonight. Um, we uh right now our the way that we transfer media into our system uh was was not allowing new stuff to come in.

[00:07:06]So, I just pulled up an old picture here, the two kitties enjoying a little nap here. Uh, the name on it was Foras Fo Res. But I don't know the names of the cats, nor do I know the names of the submitter. Why am I here? What good am I? Well, I'm showing the cat picture.

[00:07:23]So, hopefully that'll cheer somebody up.

[00:07:26]And u with that, let's go over to your questions and comments here. Maybe you can bail me out.

[00:07:35]Uh let's see. Cheyenne Hammonds, good evening, Zach Seat. Significant rainfall expected for Evansville next week. Not at first blush. Uh Zach, I showed you the models. There really no uh it it's weird. We're kind of in a um uh I don't know how to describe it. It's almost like the doldrums, right? We're not really in an active weather pattern, right? We don't have cold fronts coming down every three or four days. We don't have a tropical system in the Gulf yet.

[00:08:04]Um and and we basically have high pressure and sort of entrapped moist air, which is only really good for pop-up showers and storms, and that's about it. So, no, I don't see a signal for that. At least not in the next five to seven days.

[00:08:21]Jeff Miller's on. I'm sure your garden is loving this weather. Lenny Howard, good evening, Lenny. How are you?

[00:08:27]Janette Rice and Susan Daly. Janette, I think I mean, you know where you're from, but I thought you were from Posyville. Yeah, maybe. I'm not sure. I was up there. We were at visiting a friend and went to um Hers's Market to get lunch. How about that? Got some food for lunch. So, anyway, you know what I'm talking about. What I, you know, how I spent my week. We don't have much weather. Now, yesterday we did have uh something unusual happen. We had a cold air funnel in uh Gibson County in in Princeton. Some of you were commenting on this last night and unfortunately I didn't have the pictures to you show, but this one uh and there are many more on the Gibson County uh Facebook page if you want to look at them, but they're all basically the same thing. This came from uh Mary Mada and was taken around 6:45 last night. And you see that funnel cloud and and it's a funnel cloud. I mean, it rotates and the whole thing. Uh the difference though with a cold air funnel has to do with how they form and in the case uh yesterday with Princeton and almost with any cold air funnel situation or sometimes they're called tropical funnels. I'm going to sneeze.

[00:09:43]Excuse me. Told you I mowed the grass earlier today so that probably did me in. Uh but anyway, when we get a cold air funnel, what's happening uh is you don't have a big thunderstorm or supercell. In fact, a lot of times they happen without a a thunderstorm, even just a little rain shower. And what's going on is above all of that, we had an upper level low that was passing through. That's why it was cloudy and then we had kind of unsettled or some scattered rain yesterday. Well, you know, a low spins counterlockwise.

[00:10:15]And so, as it was moving along, it was creating little like eddies. You know, think of dragging a paddle through the water when you paddle a canoe and you get those little eddies, you know, that go behind where the where the paddle came. And so we had those up here, way up here. And what happened was uh the sun came out, as you know, warmed up the ground. So we had some updrafts, some fairly strong updrafts. And when it intersected that rotation, it caused condensation to occur and a funnel to form. and it basically is stretching what we call the vorticity or that that spin uh back down from the cloud base um and the funnel forms, but typically they don't get to the ground and they don't cause any damage. They're harmless. They look scary and the sirens were sounded in Gibson County even though we didn't have a a tornado warning for you. Um and cold air funnels usually don't last long and they're very very weak. um they're kind of akin to a dust devil that you would see out like in a bean field. Uh the difference here is that this is cloud-based as opposed to coming up from the surface. Those are caused by a rising warm air or what we would call a thermal. Uh but cold air funnels form beneath these showers or weak thunderstorms and they're common when the sun is able to heat up the lower levels of the atmosphere, which it did yesterday. But temperatures at about 15 to 20,000 feet up are are much much colder. Hence the name uh cold air funnels. So that cold air is drawn down and uh they they draw the moisture down too and they rotate and do the whole thing and uh and scare people but they are harmless. So that's our science corner uh for tonight. Cold air funnels.

[00:12:03]And I don't think we have any other questions in here this evening.

[00:12:07]All right. You're probably looking for carbon paper right now in your in your desk behind the old Rolodex. We can use all the old terms tonight, right? Uh what else did we used to have? Uh what an answering machine, you know, instead of voicemail. You had that thing with the cassette tapes in it. Uh anyway, we we'll go down memory lane some other night. You got better things to do. I uh will have an updated forecast for you on 14 News at 10. And then u let's see who's here tomorrow. Michael Feka is here to No, Byron Douglas is here tomorrow because Michael Fecka will be working for me tomorrow night. Uh all right, so I think we're all squared away. You all have a great uh night, Friday, and weekend. Stay safe and I'll see you on 14 News at 10.