Good Wednesday, everyone. The “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” post has become one of the great traditions here on KWC. On this busiest travel day of the year, it’s the perfect time to pay tribute to one of my all time favorite movies. This is a classic and I recommend you checking it out, if you haven’t seen it.
Here’s a little clip to get ya started…
Let’s get to the weather part of the program…
Rain is rolling from west to east across the state today and this could be heavy across the western half of the state. That’s where more than 1″ of rain may fall. That rain may even start out as a touch of sleet across the north early today. The farther east you live, the more dry weather you will see until this evening…
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Winds will be a little gusty with temps mainly in the 50s for your travel plans.
Thanksgiving Day will feature a lot of low clouds with a leftover shower or sprinkle in the central and east. Temps range from the upper 40s to mid 50s across the region.
A weak cold front drops in here for Black Friday into Saturday. Additional clouds and gusty winds will be with us and I can’t rule out a light shower in the north and east. The core of the cold goes to our northeast, but a northwesterly flow should keep our temps on the chilly side…
From there, we focus on a MASSIVE storm system developing in the plains on Sunday. That system is likely to bring a lot of heavy rain and wind to our region late Sunday night through early Tuesday…
That kind of setup can bring several inches of rain to parts of the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. It would be terribly ironic to go from drought to flooding, but that’s something we will need to watch for.
Cold air surges in behind that as we get ready to close the door on November. There could be another system swinging through the base of the trough soon thereafter. That could be more of a winter weather maker.
The Ensembles for early December continue to look cold across the country…
You can CLEARLY see how warm Canada gets as a massive block gets established. That’s a heck of a look, so let’s see exactly what it can deliver to us in terms of winter weather.
I will have another update later today. Safe travels and remember one thing… THOSE AREN’T PILLOWS!!!! 🙂
Take care.
Western KY looks rather drenched this morning. Overall, the wrong part of the state is getting the most rain from this storm but every place in KY needs it.
Thanks Chris. I like this kind of weather for Thanksgiving. Nice write up on Planes, Trains and Automobiles on the Rolling Stone site.
I never saw that movie when it first came out in 1987 (I think). I don’t think I ever ended up seeing it until the early 90s. I remember renting it. At any rate, I have all my DVD’s ripped to my hard drive and I use Plex, and this is one of the movies that is on there and I’m watching it as I type this 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving
Hope southeast part of ky get this soaking rain that has hit my home here western,ky. Praying for that part of world.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Nothing yet but high hopes for next week and beyond: Happy Thanksgiving.
Would not be the same without planes trains and automobiles! For Thanksgiving eve blog..
Watching all the rain quickly pulling out without a drop here in east tn…over 21.00″ below normal now for Chattanooga area..some places haven’t seen measurable rain in almost 2 and half months!..dry windy day partly sunny and 66* here in the south!
Note to Chris: just because I moved to tn. Don’t mean you can be Hoggish with the winter snowstorms!..lol..last year I watched with tears as every storm went by to my north..lol..that’s the way it goes for snowlovers in the south.. I hope the fall pattern don’t bear witness to what the winter will hold precipitation wise…
Old saying goes..cold breeds cold snow breeds snow and drought breeds drought..blah!
We just had the evening red sky of death here in Harlan for the “fair weather” signal.
I really can’t complain here compare to your location though as we are in extreme drought level now, but my area is still short-term and could recover fairly quick compared to SE TN and farther south and west where long-term drought is well established! Your area is going to take some time to recover unless a tragic rainfall event hits…hope not.
Another point to make though, it is easier to come out of drought during this time of the year as the growing season has ended with less moisture need for trees and plants, unlike spring through early fall.