Well, earlier today I spoke with Shane Holland from the Kentucky Mesonet for a statewide perspective about the areas most impacted from the weekend's heavy rain and the next weather hazard we're already experiencing this week.

The Kentucky mesonet has 87 weather stations across the state, and which gives us a more accurate view of the weather.

So, Shane, how much rain did we get over the weekend and who got hit the hardest?

We have some incredible rainfall amounts, Kristie, especially in South Central Kentucky near the Lake Cumberland vicinity.

Our highest totals were in Cumberland and Clinton counties, where we picked up over ten inches of rain within a two day span over the weekend.

A lot of that rain actually occurred, though Sunday morning between roughly midnight and 10 a.m.

central.

It was shortly before that time where flooding actually inundated our data logger box at the Cumberland County site west of Brooksville, and as a result, we lost data from that.

There could be a little bit more rain that actually fell there than was recorded, but we did pick up 10.43in of rain officially at that site before it went offline Sunday morning.

That's not a record.

The record still stands at 11.28in in 24 hours.

At our Graves County site back in July of 23.

Yeah, and that's a lot of rain to even not the weather station.

You know, log box.

But what kind of impact did it have in the community?

Well, unfortunately we had the flooding fatalities in several counties in Kentucky over the weekend.

Also flood emergencies.

And Metcalf, Cumberland and Clinton counties were issued for several hours Sunday morning as a result of standing water, not just on the roadways, but also to homes, businesses and churches being affected by this as well.

Yeah, flooding is always so dangerous in Kentucky and elsewhere.

Let's take a look ahead to the heat.

And we already feel it outside.

So tell us about this heat wave that we're going to be in the middle of this week.

And is any part in Kentucky going to be hotter than others?

I'm sweating already just thinking about how hot not only the temperatures are going to be, but how high the humidity is going to be.

It's the humidity that will be the bigger story this week.

Temperatures are expected to reach into the mid and even upper 90s, especially in the central and western region.

When you combine that with high dew point air dew point being the measurement of water vapor in the atmosphere, and you get heat indices or apparent temperatures of around anywhere from 105 to 110 degrees across a good chunk of the Commonwealth.

As a result, the National Weather Service has already extended and expanded the extreme heat warning now for most of Kentucky, say for the far north and eastern sections, which will be under a heat advisory for the next several days.

So highly advised to stay inside the air conditioning as much as you can.

Drink lots of water, though, if you have to work outside and try to stay the most strenuous activities for very early in the morning around set up or closer to evening around sunset.

That is great advice.

Well, we will do our best to stay cool this week.

Thank you so much Shane.

Thank you Christy.

The extreme heat warning keeps expanding.

It now covers most of the state.

It's going to be in effect until Thursday night if it's not been extended and we do see some relief from the heat inside.

That's the good news.

And that relief will be coming next week as we start the workweek, as temperatures start to come down closer to seasonal normals.