It's not really a secret that we could really use some rain in our area. Severe drought has crept into Adair county and a couple other counties in Southern Kentucky. We need more rain if we want to prevent that from spreading further to the North. We have literally only seen 0.08" of rain the entire month of November officially in Louisville, when we average just over 2" to date in the month. 

Luckily for us, at least some relief is on the way overnight tonight. While we've had a few light showers sporadically around our area today, we have a more impressive round tonight. 

A warm front will start to approach our area after sunset tonight, and with it rain will start increasing into our viewing area around 11pm tonight. 

As we go past midnight and into the wee hours of the night, say around 2-5am, a lot more widespread moderate to heavy rain continues to roll in along the warm front and a low pressure that's going to be moving nearly directly over our area. 

We'll still have showers rolling through with sporadic downpours as well by the time we get closer to daybreak around 6-7am. If you're leaving for work that early in the morning expect to have those windshield wipers going on the way out the driveway. 

As we get past sunrise and into mid-morning, the widespread aspect of the rain has moved out, but we're still left with showers that are now more scattered as the cold front on the backside of the low pressure swings on through our area. Temperatures will be climbing into the low 60s or so until around 11am-12pm or so, before the temperatures start falling with gusty winds during the afternoon. 

In terms of rain totals, this system could be a good rain maker for all of us. Since the rain should be fairly widespread, all of us have a good bet to see decent rain totals. Most data is agreeing on around 1" or so for most of our area. While some could be left with a little less than that if a heavier pocket of rain misses somewhere, there could also be a few locations that see more than an inch of rain too. 

This won't completely eliminate our drought, but should at least put a dent in it, especially for our Southern Kentucky counties who are striving for rain the most.