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Salt Lake County approves sale of 6.5 acres of Salt Palace for new entertainment district

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April 30, 2025

Salt Lake County approves sale of 6.5 acres of Salt Palace for new entertainment district

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Salt Lake County Council voted to approve the sale of 6.5 acres of the Salt Palace Convention Center to Ryan Smith and the Smith Entertainment Group for the development of a new sports and entertainment district.

The resolution, which passed unanimously on Tuesday, creates a property tax zone for the area, and with the sale, it was expected that SEG would demolish that part of the convention center and expand their footprint east from the Delta Center.

The county said the sale has been negotiated at fair market value.

The approval also green lights modernizing the convention center downtown. The space will shrink by nearly 1/3 after the sale. Then, 50-percent of the Salt Lake Convention Center will be redesigned, leaving half open during construction. Completion of the construction was expected to be complete in 2031.

“We’re looking at the 6.5 acres that the county owns and how best to utilize those acres for the public benefit going forward,” explained Council Member Arlyn Bradshaw who oversees District 1 where the Salt Palace sits.

The sale will help fund the nearly $1.8 billion dollar project which will renovate the rest of the Salt Palace along with infrastructure upgrades in the area. The Convention Center Reinvestment Zone was created by Utah Lawmakers and combines tax revenue from the city and county to make the plan possible. Salt Lake City also recently approved a .5 percent citywide sales tax to help repay $900 million in bonds that Smith is seeking towards construction costs on the land. The Smith Entertainment group wants to develop a new Sports, Entertainment, Culture and Convention District on the site.

“We’ve actually overbuilt our exhibit hall space and what we desperately need is a new ballroom and that is what we’re getting from what we accomplished today,” explained Mayor Jenny Wilson of Salt Lake County on Tuesday.

The county projects all of this should generate about $11 million in new tax revenue ever year and they allocated $5 million for Japantown. During public comment many residents expressed concern about protecting Japantown.

“It’s all so enormously complex just trying to understand it. There is so much public tax money going into this project it’s all very exciting, but I think it is very important for the public to understand how their tax dollars are being spent,” explained Lori Wike, a resident at Tuesday’s meeting. She’s concerned about Abravanel Hall which will get some upgrades in this plan.

Businesses owners like Matteo Sogne, who owns Matteo Ristorante Italiano downtown, hopes the short-term pain will drive more foot traffic in the long term. “I’m just excited for how the 10-20 years of Salt Lake City will look and I just think it will be good for downtown,” he said.

This comes after tax incentives were given for a 26-story Hyatt hotel that was built and opened in 2022 that is attached to the convention center. Which offers 60-thousand square feet of meeting space and a ballroom and junior ballroom.

The County hopes to complete renovations and have everything done by the 2034 Olympics here in Salt Lake City.

The sale will close on or before Feb 16, 2027.

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Russell Wilson’s post-Seahawks ride gets bumpier with Giants’ first-round move

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Russell Wilson’s post-Seahawks ride gets bumpier with Giants’ first-round move

Russell Wilson has turned into a kind of once-great baseball pitcher from the 1970s and 1980s. Those players, just like Wilson, spent many successful years with one team but eventually finished by bouncing around the league, looking for any team that would take a chance on them. Wilson was once a cornerstone of the Seattle Seahawks. That seems like a decade ago.

After going to Seahawks owner Jody Allen following the 2022 season and reportedly trying to get general manager John Schneider and then-head coach Pete Carroll fired, the Seahawks essentially fired Wilson and shipped him to the Denver Broncos. The deal turned out to be great for Seattle.

With some of the draft picks Seattle got back from the Broncos, Seattle has chosen cornerback Devon Witherspoon (a two-time Pro Bowler), left tackle Charles Cross, and edge rusher Boye Mafe. The Seahawks fleeced Denver.

Former Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is finishing his career in a sad way

This is especially true as Wilson was told to leave the Broncos after two years. The team was willing to eat nearly $100 million in dead cap not to have Wilson on the team. When he arrived in Denver in 2022, he acted as if he were bigger than the team, even asking for his own office. After the 2023 season, he was brought back to reality.

This meant Wilson had just been relieved of his duties by two teams that, at one time, he seemingly thought he could run as the quarterback. Life can be hard sometimes.

A humbled Wilson joined the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2024, and after beginning the year banged up, became the starter and led Pittsburgh to several wins. Then the proverbial wheels fell off, and Wilson and the Steelers lost their last five games. The quarterback was not welcomed back this offseason, so he eventually signed with the New York Giants.

There was a time when Wilson was seemingly headed toward a potential Hall of Fame career. Now, he cannot find a long-term home as teams appear to have no faith in him being anything but a bridge quarterback to the team’s true long-term QB1. This trend has been cemented in New York.

In the first round of the 2025 NFL draft, the Giants chose quarterback Jaxson Dart after trading back into the first round. Dart is going to be seen as the future QB1 of the Giants, and he might not have to wait long to do that. This is what happens when a quarterback is chosen in the first round.

This means Wilson’s time with New York is likely going to be short, unless he is happy to be a backup to Dart for the rest of his career. His ego probably won’t let him be happy doing so, though, which means 2025 could be Russell Wilson’s final season in the NFL.

One might wonder how things might have turned out for him had he stayed with the Seattle Seahawks. Instead, his last four seasons have been nomadic failures.

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Cincinnati Reds Appear to be Promoting Top Prospect Chase Petty

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Cincinnati Reds Appear to be Promoting Top Prospect Chase Petty

The Cincinnati Reds are reportedly promoting their sixth-ranked prospect, Chase Petty, on Wednesday to make his Major League debut against the St. Louis Cardinals.

Petty shared a story that was posted on Instagram about him being called up and said “Go time.” He also shared a story from his agent that tagged him and had the hourglass emoji.

The 22-year-old has a 3.52 ERA over five starts with Triple-A Louisville this season. He has struck out 27 over 23 innings.

The post also mentioned that Tyler Callihan will be promoted on Wednesday.

The 24-year-old can play both infield and outfield and is hitting .304 with an OPS of .938 in 24 games this season for Triple-A Louisville.

Petty was scratched from his start tonight and Callihan was not in the lineup.

It’s worth noting that we have not seen this report confirmed yet.

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New York Knicks Get Little Love in Player Poll

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New York Knicks Get Little Love in Player Poll

Apr 21, 2025; New York, New York, USA; New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau coaches against the Detroit Pistons during the third quarter of game two of the first round of the 2024 NBA Playoffs at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images / Brad Penner-Imagn Images

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Florida, ICE crackdown: ‘First-of-its-kind’ operation leads to nearly 800 immigrant arrests

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Florida, ICE crackdown: ‘First-of-its-kind’ operation leads to nearly 800 immigrant arrests

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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Saturday the agency and state law enforcement in Florida have arrested nearly 800 people over four days in a “massive, multi-agency immigration enforcement crackdown.”

ICE’s office in Miami calls the “highly successful” operation “a first-of-its-kind partnership between state and federal partners.”

CNN has reached out to ICE for more details about who was arrested, their legal status and the scope of the operation.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hailed the operation as “an example of FL and (the Department of Homeland Security) partnering to deliver big results on immigration enforcement and deportations,” according to a statement on X.

“Florida is leading the nation in active cooperation with the Trump administration for immigration enforcement and deportation operations!” DeSantis wrote in a separate post Saturday.

The Department of Homeland Security highlighted the collaboration between federal and local law enforcement, dubbed “Operation Tidal Wave,” in a news release Monday.

This kind of collaboration is “a preview of what is to come around the country: large scale operations that employ our state and local law enforcement partners to get criminal illegal aliens off our streets,” DHS said.

The massive number of reported arrests comes amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration and as the Department of Justice moves to prosecute state and local officials accused of impeding that effort.

DeSantis and other Republican leaders in Florida have pushed local officials in the state to sign agreements with ICE under the 287(g) Program, which allows local authorities to be trained by and partner with ICE to enforce aspects of US immigration law. Florida leaders have warned that state law allows for the removal of officials who refuse to cooperate with the federal government’s immigration efforts.

Statewide agencies, including the Florida Highway Patrol, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Florida State Guard, the Florida Department of Agricultural Law Enforcement and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, all signed collaboration agreements with ICE, according to an announcement by DeSantis in February.

In all, more than 200 state, county and municipal law enforcement agencies across Florida have entered into collaboration agreements with ICE, and more than 70 others have agreements pending, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security.

Earlier this month, multiple universities in Florida announced their campus police also signed the ICE agreements, further stoking fears among international students amid the Trump administration’s revocation of hundreds of student visas at colleges across the US.

Local leaders in several parts of Florida approved cooperation agreements with ICE while expressing opposition to it.

The city council in the Miami suburb of Doral – which has the largest Venezuelan immigrant population in the country – voted unanimously to approve an ICE collaboration agreement earlier this month, but council members made clear they were required to do so under state law.

“We’re being mandated by the state to take certain actions and if we don’t, we’re being threatened with criminal penalties,” City Attorney Lorenzo Cobiella said. “Passing this is painful for all of us. We’re all immigrants … we all have families that derive from different places where, right now, there’s great suffering.”

Thomas Kennedy, spokesperson for the Florida Immigrant Coalition, characterized the operation as “part of this longstanding effort by state government to basically force local police departments to conduct immigration enforcement.”

“These police officers became police officers to be police officers, not immigration agents,” he told CNN Sunday. “They should be out there policing the highways, not terrorizing undocumented people that are just trying to live in the state of Florida, pay taxes and work.”

He added he thinks the flurry of arrests is part of an effort to “create fear” so that undocumented immigrants self-deport.

The immigration crackdown will “create a less friendly, less welcoming, more prosecutory state,” Kennedy said, “where worker shortages increase, where communities are less safe because they’re afraid to report crime, where police departments are overburdened, doing work that they shouldn’t be doing.”

Last month, Fort Myers City Council members voted against the ICE collaboration, only to backtrack and approve it after Florida’s attorney general sent them a letter warning that the governor could remove them from office. Attorney General James Uthmeier called the initial refusal a “serious and direct violation” of Florida law that bans “sanctuary cities.”

The US Justice Department has repeatedly asserted that it will investigate any local officials who do not assist federal authorities on immigration matters.

Last week, Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit judge, was arrested by the FBI and charged in federal court for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest. She made an initial appearance in court and was later released.

In court Friday, Dugan’s attorney said, “Judge Dugan wholeheartedly regrets and protests her arrest. It was not made in the interest of public safety,” according to the AP.

Also last week, former New Mexico magistrate judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, were accused of tampering with evidence linked to the arrest of an undocumented migrant suspected of being a member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, according to two criminal complaints.

The migrant, Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, is a Venezuelan who was charged earlier this year for unlawful possession of a firearm or ammunition, court documents show.

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Robert De Niro’s Daughter Airyn Comes Out as Transgender

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Robert De Niro’s Daughter Airyn Comes Out as Transgender

In an interview with Them, Airyn De Niro came out as transgender
The daughter of Robert De Niro and Toukie Smith detailed growing up “out of the limelight” and finding success on her own merit
Airyn, an aspiring actress and model, is also studying to be a mental health counselor, she said

Robert De Niro’s daughter Airyn has come out as transgender.

In an interview with Them published Tuesday, April 29, about “stepping into this new identity,” as Airyn said, the aspiring actress and model shared revealing details about her life as one of Robert’s seven kids. Her mother, actress Toukie Smith, shares Airyn and twin brother Julian with the 81-year-old Oscar winner.

“There’s a difference between being visible and being seen,” Airyn, 29, told Them contributor Ava Pauline Emilione. “I’ve been visible. I don’t think I’ve been seen yet.”

After The Daily Mail and other outlets reported on a recent appearance of hers and got “information wrong,” Airyn explained, “They just sort of reminded me that people really don’t know anything about me.”

Airyn De Niro on Instagram.

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Addressing those outlets labeling her a “nepo baby” due to her father, she said, “I wasn’t brought up having a side part in one of dad’s movies or going to business meetings or attending premieres. My dad was very big on us finding our own sort of path… I would want [success] to happen on my own merit.”

“Obviously, no parent is perfect, but I am grateful that both my parents agreed to keep me out of the limelight,” she said of Robert and Smith. “They have told me they wanted me to have as much of a normal childhood as possible.”

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Airyn also spoke frankly about growing up as a “late bloomer,” body dysmorphia and beauty standards.

“I was always told I was too much of something or not enough of something growing up: Too big, not skinny enough. Not Black enough, not white enough. Too feminine, not masculine enough,” she shared. “It was never just, ‘You’re just right, just the way you are.’ ”

Drawing inspiration from her mother and “the influence Black women have had on me,” she continued, she decided to begin hormone therapy last November.

“I’d want to hopefully be an inspiration for at least one other person like me who is Black, who is queer, who’s not a size extra small,” said Airyn. “I’d want to see more trans women, more Black women who are maybe bigger-bodied or don’t fit the mold of super thin or heroin chic.”

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Studying to become a mental health counselor is part of that mission. “People of color and queer people definitely need more mental health advocacy and support,” said Airyn. “So I’m hoping I’m able to do that.”

Robert’s seven kids include his youngest, Gia, whom he welcomed with girlfriend Tiffany Chen in April 2023.

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Floridians Are Getting Glimpses of What Aggressive Immigration Enforcement Looks Like

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Floridians Are Getting Glimpses of What Aggressive Immigration Enforcement Looks Like

The year had barely begun when Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida demanded legislation cracking down on illegal immigration — before President Trump was inaugurated, and before any other state could beat him to it.

The Republican governor got his wish. And now, the impact of the state’s new, aggressive enforcement powers is starting to become clear.

The Trump administration has boasted of making hundreds of immigration arrests in Florida, with the state’s help. A South Florida detention center has added a plexiglass structure with rows of cots to deal with overcrowding. Mr. DeSantis and his handpicked attorney general, James Uthmeier, threatened to remove members of a City Council who initially opposed working with federal officials on immigration enforcement, accusing them of embracing “sanctuary policies.”

In recent weeks, Mr. Uthmeier also seemed to defy a federal judge’s order on one of the new state laws. The judge, Kathleen M. Williams of the Federal District Court in Miami, temporarily blocked part of one law that makes it a state crime for unauthorized immigrants to enter Florida. Despite the judge’s order, Mr. Uthmeier told police officers that he “cannot prevent” them from making arrests under the law in question.

Such has been the tumult playing out in Florida since Mr. DeSantis signed two sweeping immigration laws in February, saying that he wanted to be on the front lines of helping the Trump administration carry out mass deportations. The measures have entangled every level of state government and unnerved residents who had long considered Florida an immigrant haven.

“I’ve never seen so many people so scared or concerned in 50 years that I’ve been working in Miami,” said Wilfredo O. Allen, an immigration lawyer.

The tension has been most palpable in South Florida, which is heavily Hispanic. The region’s politicians largely avoid anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies, given that about 54 percent of Miami-Dade County residents are foreign-born and three-quarters speak a language other than English at home. Of particular concern is the federal government’s attempt to end deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians, many of whom live in the region.

But Mr. Trump and Mr. DeSantis both handily won Miami-Dade County, flipping it red and showing how even in one of the nation’s most heavily Hispanic regions, sentiment has shifted in favor of stricter immigration enforcement. South Florida’s Republican members of Congress have done little to push back against the administration’s crackdown. A new political group began publishing ads against some of them last week.

“Deporting good immigrants back to dictatorships is cruel,” one of the ads says. Pictured in it are Representatives Mario Díaz-Balart, Carlos A. Giménez and María Elvira Salazar, as well as Secretary of State Marco Rubio. All are Cuban Americans from Miami.

In a state of 23 million, it has been hard to track who exactly has been targeted by the new policies, and where. The Trump administration has offered scant details on the arrests it has conducted with Florida law enforcement, beyond saying that about 780 people around the state were detained in a major operation last week. Immigration activists worry that those arrested include people with no criminal records.

Mr. Trump and Mr. DeSantis have talked about deporting criminals. But “the rhetoric is a mismatch of what is actually happening on the ground,” said Paul R. Chávez, the litigation director for Americans for Immigrant Justice, a legal aid group based in Miami.

Mr. Allen, the immigration lawyer, said one of his clients was a truck driver who was detained by immigration authorities after dumping junk at a public facility without a permit.

City after city in South Florida — including Hialeah, which is heavily Cuban; Doral, which is heavily Venezuelan; and Homestead, which has a significant farmworker community — have entered into formal agreements known as 287(g) to help federal authorities with immigration enforcement. Only one city, South Miami, has gone to court to argue that such formal cooperation is not required under the new state laws.

“At this point, it feels like the governor and state attorney general are trying to intimidate people so they can tell the world that every municipality in Florida has signed on to help,” Mayor Javier E. Fernández of South Miami, a Democrat whose office is nonpartisan, said in an interview.

In February, Mr. DeSantis announced that all 67 county sheriff’s offices had adopted 287(g) agreements, making Florida the first state in the country to have such wide buy-in.

“This is a task force model, which will lead to street-level enforcement operations,” he said. “This is the maximum participation that a local entity can have.”

Chief Edward James Hudak Jr. of the Coral Gables Police Department, which signed a 287(g) agreement, said police departments were used to cooperating with their federal partners. His officers will not be checking the immigration status of crime victims, witnesses or anyone who has not been charged with a crime, he said.

“My department is going to look at it as, this is just an additional tool,” said Chief Hudak, who also serves as the legislative chair for the Florida Police Chiefs Association. “We don’t want someone to not call us or not say something if they’re in fear for their status.”

Lawyers and organizations that defend immigrants’ rights say that such arrangements have tended to lead to racial profiling.

But the politics in Florida have moved steadily toward stricter immigration enforcement, starting during the first Trump administration. Mr. DeSantis banned so-called sanctuary cities in 2019, the year he took office — and noted this year that he had done so ahead of the White House. His stance represents a sea change from when Gov. Jeb Bush, a fellow Republican who led the state two decades ago, espoused relatively liberal positions on immigration.

Even Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican who was an immigration hard-liner, later allowed certain immigrants brought into the country illegally as children to receive in-state tuition rates at public universities — a policy that the new legislation reversed.

Under other provisions of the two laws signed in February, unauthorized immigrants convicted of a capital offense are supposed to receive the death penalty. And nearly $300 million will be allocated to help local agencies assist with federal immigration enforcement, overseen by a new State Board of Immigration Enforcement.

”Florida has been, I think, one of the laboratories for experimentation, with harsh anti-immigrant measures for years now,” said Cody Wofsy, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union in San Francisco who is part of the team challenging Florida’s illegal entry law, saying it encroaches on federal duties.

In a hearing in that case on Tuesday, Judge Williams upbraided the lawyers representing Mr. Uthmeier, the attorney general, for “inviting police officers” to continue making arrests even after she issued her order.

“What I am offended by, and what I do find problematic, is someone suggesting, ‘You don’t have to follow that order, it’s not legitimate,’” she said.

Mr. Uthmeier initially wrote to local law enforcement agencies that while he disagreed with the judge’s order, sheriff’s deputies and police officers should hold off on making further arrests while the case moved through the courts. He then followed up with a letter that said he could not “prevent” such arrests from taking place.

On Tuesday, his lawyers argued that the letter laid out Mr. Uthmeier’s legal position. “We just don’t read it as inviting violations” to the judge’s order, Jeffrey Paul DeSousa, the acting solicitor general in Florida, said in court.

The judge forcefully disagreed and asked Mr. Uthmeier’s lawyers to provide some kind of redress for his second letter. His lawyers asked for more time to “have further conversations with our front office,” suggesting that the attorney general was unlikely to back down.

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Is Isaiah Stewart playing tonight? Detroit Pistons center out vs Knicks

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Is Isaiah Stewart playing tonight? Detroit Pistons center out vs Knicks

Isaiah Stewart will miss Game 5 against the New York Knicks due to a right knee injury.
Stewart, the Pistons’ defensive anchor, has missed the last four playoff games with the injury.

Detroit Pistons big man Isaiah Stewart has been ruled out of Game 5, the team revealed before their elimination game against the New York Knicks.

Stewart missed the Pistons’ final two games of the season, and their last four playoff games with right knee inflammation. The fifth-year forward is the backbone of the Pistons’ defense, and tried playing through the injury in Game 1 on April 19 before subbing out of the game for good early in the fourth quarter.

Game 5 will be played at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m., and the Pistons will try to starve off elimination after heartbreaking home loss in Game 4, which ended with a missed call on Tim Hardaway Jr. 3-point attempt that would’ve given them a chance to win and tie the series.

Isaiah Stewart backup plan for Pistons is Paul Reed

Paul Reed played eight minutes in Game 4 as the backup center behind Jalen Duren. “BBall Paul” finished with two points, four rebounds and a block.

Reed, 6 feet 9 and 220 pounds, played in 45 games this season as the Pistons third center, averaging 9.7 minutes per game and scoring 4.1 points on just 50.7% shooting.

Reed, 25, was the 58th overall pick out of DePaul by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2020 draft. He played in 32 playoff games over four seasons with the Sixers.

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Strong to severe storms could hit during Derby Week

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Strong to severe storms could hit during Derby Week

It’s a severe alert day for Tuesday.A few showers will be possible early on, but the better chances of showers and storms develop in the afternoon.Some of those storms could be strong to severe. We are watching for the potential for strong winds and large hail.INTERACTIVE RADAR| ACTIVE WEATHER ALERTS This could impact anyone going to the track for 502’sDay.The main timeframe for our general area is between 4 and 9 p.m. This would be the time to be weather aware.The higher chances of strong to severe storms look off to the northeast. Our area has been placed under a “enhanced” risk category which is level 3 out of 5 on the list.On Wednesday, we have the threat of storms with heavy rainfall. These storms look to be scattered, but possibly heavy rain-producers.Another wave of possibly strong to severe storms comes back into our area on Thursday, with damaging winds being the primary concern. This round of storms may also exacerbate flooding concerns due to already elevated rainfall totals.As of right now, the bulk of the heaviest and strongest storms look to move out of the area by Oaks and Derby. A few showers may be hung up on Friday, but Saturday looks to be dry and below normal. Download the WLKY app for up-to-date weather alertsStream weather from WLKY anytime on Very Local

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It’s a severe alert day for Tuesday.

A few showers will be possible early on, but the better chances of showers and storms develop in the afternoon.

Some of those storms could be strong to severe. We are watching for the potential for strong winds and large hail.

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This could impact anyone going to the track for 502’sDay.

The main timeframe for our general area is between 4 and 9 p.m. This would be the time to be weather aware.

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Tuesday storm threats

The higher chances of strong to severe storms look off to the northeast. Our area has been placed under a “enhanced” risk category which is level 3 out of 5 on the list.

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On Wednesday, we have the threat of storms with heavy rainfall. These storms look to be scattered, but possibly heavy rain-producers.

Another wave of possibly strong to severe storms comes back into our area on Thursday, with damaging winds being the primary concern. This round of storms may also exacerbate flooding concerns due to already elevated rainfall totals.

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Oaks and Derby forecast

As of right now, the bulk of the heaviest and strongest storms look to move out of the area by Oaks and Derby.

A few showers may be hung up on Friday, but Saturday looks to be dry and below normal.

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Kentucky Derby Weather Forecast: Rain This Week, Dry Saturday

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Kentucky Derby Weather Forecast: Rain This Week, Dry Saturday

Brian Hernandez Jr. rides Mystik Dan, left, to the finish line to win the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Louisville, Ky.

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The Kentucky Derby weather forecast looks good for the first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown Saturday, but rain could pose issues for other festivities this week, including the Kentucky Oaks race Friday.

Churchill Downs in Louisville hosts a string of events this week, including Winsday on Wednesday, Thurby on Thursday and the Kentucky Oaks race on Friday, all leading up to the 151st running of the big race around 6:57 p.m. ET.

Rain Chances This Week

Unfortunately, showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast much of this week in Louisville. Here is our look at the forecast through Friday:

– Wednesday: There could be both morning showers, then another round of afternoon showers and storms.

– Thursday: There’s another good bet for showers and thunderstorms.

– Friday: Occasional rain showers may linger during the day.

A Drier Derby?

Fortunately by Saturday afternoon, we expect any showers to have pushed east of Louisville.

That should provide at least several hours of drying of the track before post time early Saturday evening. But given the past few days of rain, we certainly don’t expect a fast track Saturday, as has been in place the last five races in a row.

The last track deemed “sloppy” due to rain was in 2019, when about a third of an inch of rain fell. The previous year, over 3 inches of rain fell on May 5, 2018.

Behind the cold front, we also expect seasonably cool temperatures Saturday, with highs generally holding in the 60s.

(MORE: How Weather Can Affect Horses At The Kentucky Derby)

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Reach out to him on Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook.

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