Good Monday, everybody. As hard as it is to believe, Thanksgiving week is upon us and the pattern continues to look colder than normal in our part of the world. This cold setup is likely to be accompanied by a dry turkey… Day. The active pattern is calming down forĀ a few days.
We are tracking two cold shots our way in the coming days. One shot arrives for the busy travel day on Wednesday, with another diving in late Saturday and Sunday. We are basically bookending the long holiday period with cold shots.
Temps today start in the 20s and hit the 40s with a mix of sun and clouds. Winds gust up on Tuesday with near normal temps ahead of our cold front. That front may have a light rain or snow shower behind it across northern Kentucky as is passes through…
The busiest travel day of the year looks dry and seasonally cold in our part of the world. Lows are in the 20s with afternoon readings in the upper 30s to low 40s…
Thanksgiving Day will start with temps deep in the 20s and end with 40s for highs. Skies stay partly cloudy.
Black Friday shoppers look to face temps dropping into the upper 20s early in the morning, with near 50 by late afternoon. Winds will gust up, but skies stay dry.
A stronger push of cold air arrives late Saturday into Sunday.
A few weeks ago, I made a post showing how the very cold air in Alaska and western Canada would start to bleed into our region. That’s been the case lately, and looks to continue. Watch the connection keep showing up on the Canadian Ensembles…
That animation goes into the start of December. You do see some breaks between the cold shots, but the connection is pretty cool to see.
I will hook you up with updates later today, so check back. Have a magnificent Monday and take care.
Looks to be very very boring weather for the next 10 days.
Waite for mid- December, I believe there will be big time change in the weather pattern.
Thanks
No complaints here.
This weather looks great. 40’s and 50’s for highs with sunny skies!! Will take it all winter long
On yesterday the NWS out of Louisville confirmed a EF-1 tornado touchdown did occur in Meade County Ky on Saturday evening. 100-105 mph winds, 1.8 mile long path, 50 yards wide and one person injured.
It hit my girlfriend’s parent’s neighbor’s property in Meade County. Destroyed 2 or 3 barns among other damage. Girlfriend’s mom didn’t have major damage at her home fortunately. They were posting pictures of the damage on their road yesterday. I will check it out when I go there for Thanksgiving later this week. They live a few hundred yards from the path the F-5 tornado took during the super outbreak in the 1970s when there was tons of damage in Meade County and the city of Brandenburg was destroyed.
Looks like a nice dry week of fall weather. Everyone enjoy.
For you weather geeks, October Eurasian Snow Cover Extent and Northern Hemisphere SCE were above average again for the 6th consecutive year. The anomaly this year is a bit less than last year, which could actually be a good thing for snow lovers here. Too much snow cover in October could mean more cold air driven too far south during the peak of our winter, enough to keep storm tracks south of our region. However, the October SCE could also allow for more chances for ice this upcoming season, putting Kentucky in its usual crucial ‘fence’ position.
Mike S : How does La nina play into the pattern you described above ?
It’s just another driver or dominating influence…there are several of them, including October Snow Cover Extent
While I’ve always been of the mindset that I would rather have warmer temps if snow isn’t in play, I’ll gladly take that scenario as long as cold bone chilling rain is NOT involved…