Rain, hot temperatures to linger in the region through the work week

The name of the game this week, at least in the weather, is rain and hot temperatures before it dries out in the weekend—giving us a real taste of summer.

Forecaster Rachel Trevino with the National Weather Service in Paducah says rain chances will persist through the bulk of the week, though the best chances will be Monday into Tuesday morning. In fact, there is a Flood Watch in effect for the bulk of the area, including Christian, Todd and Trigg counties, until 8 a.m. Tuesday morning.

And several of those areas have already picked up a couple inches of rain, and with a Marginal Risk of strong to severe storms in effect, it’s likely we’ll pick up a few more inches before all is said and done…

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