TUESDAY WEATHER: Our run at the hottest September on record in Scott County will continue in earnest this week, as we’re expecting temperatures at or above 90 degrees all week. The next several days will be hot and dry, with temperatures topping out around 91 degrees today, tomorrow, and Thursday. That isn’t quite as hot as the upper 90s that we saw two weeks ago, but it’s plenty hot. Nighttime lows will be close to 70 degrees.
THE WEEKEND: We’ll continue to see temperatures near 90 degrees this weekend, although we may see some slight rain chances to cut through the heat a bit. There’s a 20% chance of isolated thunderstorms on Friday. After a hot, dry Saturday, there’s a slightly better chance for some showers and storms on Sunday (40%).
NEXT WEEK: We may see temperatures close to 90 degrees to start next week, but there’s hope for a break from the extreme heat after that. We may see widespread showers and thunderstorms Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by somewhat milder temperatures. The European global model is more aggressive with this idea than the American GFS, and the Euro has struggled with this impending pattern change over the past couple of weeks. So it remains to be seen just how much we’ll “cool off” next week. As a general rule, it looks like above-average temperatures will continue through the month of September and perhaps into October.
RIVER CONDITIONS: Below-normal streamflows continue. The Big South Fork River is flowing at about 60 cubic feet per second (cfs), while Clear Fork actually spiked to about 40 cfs yesterday. That’s not a lot of water, but it’s a little more than normal for this time of year. Water clarity is good, and water temperatures are nearing the mid 80s during the peak of afternoon heating, meaning the summer swimming season continues.
TROPICAL WATCH: A tropical disturbance located about 1,000 miles east of Bermuda has an increasing chance of becoming the fifth named storm of the 2026 hurricane season later this week. It still doesn’t look like a threat to the U.S. mainland. Elsewhere, the tropics are quiet.
