Good Tuesday, folks. We are just one day away from the infamous Planes, Trains and Automobile post and that can only mean one thing… Thanksgiving is near. While the weather looks pretty good for the big day, the active pattern returns this weekend with a winter look setting in next week.

Speaking of winter, there’s a touch of winter possible today. Scattered rain and snow showers are dotting the skyline across parts of central and eastern Kentucky today…

Highs today are generally in the upper 30s to low 40s.

Wednesday is the busiest travel day of the year and the weather looks pretty good. Temps will be seasonally chilly with a few clouds increasing across the central and east. Those clouds are ahead of a front dropping into eastern Kentucky from the northeast. That brings a little more chill in these areas for Thanksgiving, with milder air in the far west. Check out the highs on the NAM…

The core of hat arctic air is across the northeastern part of the country and will impact the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Look at those wind chills to start…

Yowza!!

Our next system blows in very quickly by Black Friday afternoon and evening. Rain will increase from west to east and continue into the first half of Saturday…

Once that moves away, we focus on yet another storm system moving into the region by late Sunday and Monday. The models vary with how to handle this system, but do show quite a bit of wind, rain and then some snow. The GFS decided to turn this storm into a biggie..

The European Model isn’t nearly as strong, but also shows a similar scenario with a wrap around light snow maker following it up…

As that trough gets established behind the exiting storm… Watch the end of next week for another storm to develop and threaten us with wintry weather.

The final winter forecast from the Jamstec matches up well with the pattern unfolding next week into early December. This has a lot of cold across the country with above normal precipitation in our region…

This winter has the potential to be a heavyweight for a lot of the country!

I will have more updates later today, so check back. Make it a good one and take care.