Much of central and eastern Kentucky is looking at wet week. Rain is on call for the next five to seven days and some of it could be heavy. Charles Greif is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson. He said people can expect wet conditions for most of the week.
“Basically, we’re gonna have a front that gets stalled right over top of us and periodically it’s going to bring rounds of showers and thunderstorms throughout much of the state and particularly here in the east. We’re looking up to several inches of rainfall, cumulative, by the weekend.”
While the rain does offer some relief from recent dry conditions, Greif says rising waters and flash floods are a concern. Greif said there are multiple dangers during a flash flood, many of them involve the road.
“The most dangerous situations tend to be at night when people aren’t really able to see to clearly on the roads and the water comes across the road and there’s always too many people that think they can drive through it. They assume the road is there under the water, but you really can’t see it and there’s many times when the road is actually washed out.”
He said southeastern Kentucky is particularly at risk. The rain will also bring the temperatures down; however, he says, expect the humidity to remain high.
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