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tonight's games. And I guess also um so tonight looks pretty good for most of the games, but tomorrow we could have an issue. Yeah, if you're heading to Lexington for that UK LSU game, I know it was sold out. Should be big crowds. Make sure you bring the poncho. It's going to be one of those nights. Yeah, but this evening is looking fantastic. You know, for high school football, for the UL game, so get out and enjoy it while it's here because as we know, there are some changes on the horizon.
We've had such a nice stretch of weather. It'd be nice if it just concentrated itself over the weekend, but that doesn't seem to be the case. So, here's your Friday night football forecast. Temperatures are currently in the 80s, but by 700 p.m. that sun will already be beginning to set. Uh, so temperatures will start to cool into the upper 70s, mid70s at 8:00 p.m., low 70s starting at 900 p.m. with cloud cover continuing to increase overnight. And let's talk about the rain here. So, we are not going to get a huge impact from East. We're going to have some showers. We're going to have maybe some thunderstorms, some gusty winds as well. But when we talk about flooding, rainfall, that's going to be more to so
to the south and also to the east here. So throughout the course of the day tomorrow, the atmosphere will gradually become saturated. We might see rain on the radar as early as the morning to our southernmost counties, but it's going to take, I'd say, more so into the afternoon for showers to become a little bit steadier. The heaviest rain Saturday evening, more so into Saturday night. So, all of this will be stretching from south to north here, increasing in coverage. And one change recently is the amount of rain for Kentucky. And it has decreased a bit. I think many of us will fall between half of an inch to maybe an inch and a half if you're lucky. Of course, if we get any kind of
heavier showers or storms overnight that kind of rotate through here. Always hard to pinpoint where exactly those show up. You could get two plus inches of rainfall in some spots. Uh but once again, it's more so to our south and then off to our southeast where the heaviest rain is expected. But this is the latest look at the hurricane which is nearing the coast there right around Pensacola. It's still considered a major hurricane, category 3 or stronger and winds are 115 miles hour. It's moving very quickly toward the north at 17 miles hour and its central pressure is down to 959 millibars here. So, it will
be making landfall this evening into the early overnight hours. Uh, an area that we've mentioned before, a lot of us vacation around the panhandle of Florida here. So, you can see the latest track moving between Mobile and Panama City Beach there. So, I'd say right around Pensacola, Florida. This will continue to make uh move inland, I should say, overnight and greatly weaken, of course, as it becomes in contact with land. And I will say the track has sped up a bit. So, the onset of our rain tomorrow has sped up a bit. I'd say afternoon rather than evening. And also, it's going to move in and out pretty quickly. So, we could get some drier time on the back side of this for us once we head into
Sunday evening. But in the meantime, satellite and radar, of course, very active. You can see uh the eyewall here as it continues to wrap around and approach land. And also, you have these bands that come ashore on the east side, and these can spin up tornadoes. So, that's why that red box is underneath all of this. That's where your tornado threat is located. Here at home though, we're just enjoying some high clouds that will make for a very nice sunset and as I keep mentioning, a nice Friday night. So, get out and enjoy it. Temperatures in the 80s, cool into the 70s, eventually the lower 60s by early tomorrow morning. Cloud cover will continue to thicken up tomorrow morning.
Once again, rain on the radar as early as the morning to midday, but I think it's going to take until the afternoon for the atmosphere to become saturated enough for a lot of that rain to start reaching the ground. This kind of rotates through here. So, expect periods of showers, some embedded thunderstorms, gusty winds as well. If we're talking bouts of heavier rainfall, that's likely Saturday night into Sunday morning. And this kind of continues to wrap around here until we get that dry air catching up on the northwest side throughout the day on Sunday with clouds decreasing. So, Sunday evening should be fine.
Monday, Tuesday, looking drier and warm again, back into the 80s. And then we could have a stronger front by Thursday into Friday of next week that could cool things off for us by next
