Good Wednesday, everyone. Another period of showery weather is getting set to roll across the bluegrass state over the next couple of days. The frequent bouts of precipitation have been common over the past few months and that’s a trend that continues for the foreseeable future. What about the non-foreseeable future? I have some thoughts on that as well.

Let’s start with today and roll forward.

Highs will range from the mid to upper 40s for many with some clouds on the increase. Low 50s may show up in the west and south.

The clouds will eventually spit out rounds of showers starting late tonight and running through Friday. The latest trend has been for less in the way of rainfall…

GFS Rain

Still… the next few days won’t be very nice with chilly temps continuing. It may be JUST cold enough for a few Thursday morning snowflakes to mix in for a few areas…

GFS Snow

That is not a big deal at all. Any flakes that fall will quickly give way to plain old chilly showers.

The weekend weather continues to look pretty darn good. Saturday should see some sunshine returning as thermometers make a run toward the 60s. Sunday will see a cold front trying to shoot in here, but the timing of that may get pushed back a day or two into early next week.

I continue to see a pattern full of big temperature swings that skew a littler colder than normal overall during the next few weeks. Speaking of skewing colder than normal, the CFS has a very ugly look for April…

CFS

That’s a lot of cold air showing up across much of the country and we can only hope it’s dead wrong! We can also say the same about the precipitation forecast for the month…

CFS 2Looking even farther down the road… my thoughts have changed some on where the summer pattern goes. You’ve heard the old saying “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. Well, I think that’s very appropriate with our weather pattern. The Pacific Ocean temperature profile hasn’t changed very much since the fall of 2013 and it doesn’t look to change much this year. Most of the seasonal models keep that similar setup going all the way through the start of next winter. Interesting.

Make it a great day and take care.