Wednesday 7/13 Update

It was a noisy end to the heat wave last night as some powerful and drenching storms rolled in from the north, putting a brief end to the oppressive July heat.  (I was a little upset with Mother Nature last night, as the storms temporarily interrupted my viewing of the MLB All-Star Game!)  On a more serious note, these storms did pack a punch, and actually produced an unconfirmed funnel cloud around KY Lake, although this viewer pic pretty much speaks for itself:

These storms were associated with a weak cold front that is sagging southward through the region today...helping bring temperatures that are 10-15 degrees cooler than the past couple of days.  Dew points that were in the upper 70's to near 80 the past couple of days have slightly dropped to the mid 70's today, and models are advertising dew points in the upper 60's to lower 70's tomorrow...so things may be slightly less uncomfortable. 

The cold front will slide on through tonight and remain near or just south of the area for a couple of days, before basically just washing out by the weekend.  With the front in the area, we'll have a daily chance of typical summertime pop-up showers and storms through Saturday.  Temperatures will remain in the upper 80's to around 90 tomorrow, then the mercury starts to climb by the end of the week.  An upper-level ridge will press back from the south over the weekend, that will send us to the low to mid 90's over the weekend, with heat index values that will return to around 100-105.
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Onto some other randomness....yesterday evening was one of the biannual (twice a year) occurrences of "Manhattenhenge"...where the sun aligns with the east-west grid of New York City's streets, allowing the sun to shine directly down all streets at the same time.  Click here to check out some very cool pics from NYC.