Good Thursday, everyone. An early November arctic front is diving into the eastern half of the country, delivering the coldest air of the young fall season. This caps off a week of well below normal temperatures across our part of the world, with colder signals showing up down the road.

Some of you may be saying… Arctic front? This is modified arctic air and a sure fire way to see that is to look at the dewpoints. Single digit dewpoint temps in Kentucky in early November are not very common…

That’s one heck of a dry air mass and you may even feel a little static electricity on Friday.

What does this mean for temperatures? Lows by Friday morning drop deep into the 20s with afternoon reading struggling to get out of the 30s, even with full sunshine. Here’s the Hi-Res Nam…

Temps drop quickly into the 20s Friday evening and could reach the low 20s in some areas by Saturday morning…

Winds are going to be gusty during this time and will make all those numbers feel much, much colder. These are the coldest wind chill readings since last winter…

Yep, wind chills will hit the teens at times Friday through Saturday morning. Ouch.

The rest of Saturday will find clouds increasing with temps in the 40s central and east and 50s west.

A system moves in for Sunday and early Monday with chilly showers…

I continue to look toward next weekend into Thanksgiving week for the potential for a winter weather threat. The European Model continues to kick things off with a deepening trough into our region next weekend…

That trend matches up with the GFS Ensembles. They keep coming in with a well below normal look developing at the same time and going through Thanksgiving…

The same Ensembles keep spitting out some snow chances around here during the same time…

I’ll drop by for another update later today. Make it a good one and take care.