Good Thursday, everyone. Our wild temperature ride is just getting started as a surge of spring has engulfed the bluegrass state. This will soon be replaced by a huge drop in temps tonight and then another huge spike in temps late in the weekend and early next week.

All of this will give us the potential for thunderstorms, freezing rain, heavy rain… Then more thunderstorms. Normal? Who the heck wants to be normal, anyway? 🙂

Temps today are deeeeep into the 60s and may flirt with 70 in the south. Winds are going to absolutely crank and can reach 40-45mph at times. Showers and thunderstorms then sweep in here along and ahead of a cold front…

Temps will then crash from northwest to southeast this evening and will drop more than 30 degrees. Check out the numbers by Friday morning…

NAM

Areas that are below freezing can see a touch of freezing rain early Friday. The best chance for that will be across the north and the far west.

That boundary will then hang around through Saturday with a better than 20 degree spread in temps from north to south. The best chance for freezing rain continues to be across the north, but odds favor significant icing staying north and west of Kentucky.

That said, the Canadian continues to show some hefty ice totals in the north…

Canadian

A quick look at the new European Model finds it showing a similar swath of ice in the north.

Temps then surge from south to north later this weekend into Monday, and should hit the 60s once again. Gusty showers and thunderstorms will then return, with a bigger system moving in here right after that. Check this out…

GFS Gif 6

That’s a lot of rain showing up on the GFS through the middle of next week…

GFS Rain

After we get through this Spring to Winter to Spring setup, we find the return of real winter…

GFS

I will have updates coming your way later today, so check back. Make it a great day and take care.