LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – It’s the middle of the week and all eyes are on a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Francine will make landfall later today and will roll up the Mississippi River and impact our weather later Thursday and Friday.

Hurricane Francine is approaching the Louisiana coast and will make landfall by the evening. This system is working in tandem with a stalled boundary across the Gulf Coast to produce a massive swath of clouds that will roll into our region as the day progresses.

This system will then move north through Mississippi tonight and Thursday before moving slightly northwest again toward western Tennessee and western Kentucky.

As we get closer to Francine impacting Kentucky weather, we can fine-tune things a bit. The first spiraling bands of showers and storms will arrive late Thursday and Thursday night in western and southern Kentucky. This action will intensify as it circles counterclockwise around the remaining low pressure area and moves into western Tennessee and western Kentucky on Friday.

The biggest threat for heavy rain and some strong storms will be in the west. A few spiraling bands of strong storms and heavy rain will develop across central and parts of eastern Kentucky with a sharp cutoff on the northeast side of it all.

Scattered showers and storms will continue in the West on Sunday. Another tropical system could form off the coast of the Carolinas and bring more showers and storms early next week.

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