Severe Weather Possible Monday for Louisville

At 12:30pm today, the SPC came out with their Day 2 Outlook and includes much of the Ohio Valley in a Slight Risk category for severe weather. Despite a 15% probability assigned to the region, which is not a significant risk probability, any low-topped thunderstorms could become robust enough to put out gusty winds and hail. Updates will be forthcoming, but not looking at widespread severe weather.

It's warm enough to support severe weather. Temperatures well into the 60's today with sporadic peeks of sunshine; however, clouds should hang tough for most of us.

While we're talking about severe weather, I've looked at the Tornado reports page from the SPC. Much quieter this year than last year, to say the least. Here's a brief summary for 2012...

Updated December 13...
839 actual tornadoes confirmed this year through September. Now, October through December has seen only 66 preliminary reports of tornadoes; however, even if most of these are confirmed, we're still looking at about 900 or so actual tornadoes. It looks like we're on track to record below 1,000 for the year, much below the 1,691 confirmed last year and the 3-year average of 1,382.

Tornado deaths are much lower this year, thankfully. After last year's record 553 deaths, 68 has been recorded this year, still too much. Unfortunately, 10 killer tornadoes occurred in March taking 41 lives. Most of those deaths occurred in Indiana and some in Kentucky.

MS