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KEY MESSAGES

- A warming trend continues through Friday.

- Showers and a few thunderstorms will affect some locations through early this evening, mainly northeast of a line from Flemingsburg to Pikeville.

- More widespread shower and storm chances enter the forecast on Friday night into Saturday and then again early next week.

LONG TERM

(After midnight Thursday night through Tuesday) Issued at 822 AM EDT WED APR 22 2026

A series of shortwave troughs coming out of a degrading western CONUS longwave trough will eat away at an upper ridge over our area at the start of the period. Low level moisture should also finally creep higher as surface ridging/high pressure over the southeast CONUS weakens and shifts offshore. The combination of waves aloft, lowering geopotential heights, and increasing low level moisture should finally allow for rainfall for most of the area, with the most likely time being Friday night into Saturday, and again Monday night into Tuesday. A definitive cold front should accompany the rainfall early next week.

AVIATION

(For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Thursday afternoon) ISSUED AT 235 PM EDT WED APR 22 2026

VFR conditions prevailed at the start of the period at the TAF sites with some sub VFR conditions potentially occurring within a narrow band of showers from Fleming County to the Tug Fork vicinity. Outside of the shower activity in the eastern portion of the area southwest to west winds at 5 to 15KT were occurring with gusts as high as 20 to 25KT. The showers could affect KSYM and KSJS during the first couple hours of the period with the potential for brief reductions to MVFR. Otherwise, VFR will prevail through the period as high pressure reasserts itself. Winds should slacken toward 00Z and then become light and variable overnight, before picking up a bit between 14Z and 18Z out of the southwest to west at 5 to 10KT.

JKL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

None.