Good Thursday everyone. Temps finally went above the freezing mark across the entire region on Wednesday putting an end to one heck of a prolonged cold and snowy spell across our part of the world. Now we get a chance to hit 40 for the first time this year. 
Sunny skies will be with us today allowing temps to soar toward the 40-45 degree range. This will be a good day to wash a little salt and crud off the cars.
A weak front will move toward us on Friday with an increase in clouds and the chance for a late day shower. Highs will run in the upper 30s and low 40s. That same forecast will hold true for your Saturday as well as that weak front kinda washes out across the area.
Our focus will then turn to a developing storm across the Gulf of Mexico. This will run toward the Carolinas and will throw moisture back our way leading to rains developing early Sunday. There just isn’t much cold air for this system to work with. Still… it could be just cold enough for some wet snow… especially in the highest elevations. Here is what the GFS looks like…
Sunday Morning
Sunday Afternoon
That is a perfect track… we are just lacking a cold high pressure to the north. Oh well… we have had plenty of snow already this winter and we have plenty more ahead of us! 
As a matter of fact… some of the models are not very impressed with this “break” from winter and are saying winter comes back before next week is over. The GFS certainly does not look warm at all next week…
Wednesday
There is something to be said about a pattern and how it resists change. Next week will be fun to watch as the overall pattern is going to try to trump the “warmup”. This warmup was going to be rather brief anyway and the medium range models are already bringing winter back into the eastern US by NEXT weekend. The European Model is really leading the charge on that.
Speaking of a warmup… the folks at the HPC made a statement that is more than crazy. In a recent extended forecast discussion, this was their headline…
MAJOR PTRN CHNG UNDERWAY OVR NOAM IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO WHAT
HAPPENED THE WINTER OF 1989-90 OVER NOAM
I cannot begin to express how silly that statement is. For those of you who cannot remember… December 1989 was BRUTAL for the eastern half of the country and is our coldest December ever around here. Temps were well below zero on many occasions. Once into January… we flipped a switch and saw record warm temps that carried us through the rest of the winter and it basically never snowed again after the first of the year. It was truly an historic pattern flip!
Folks… there is NOTHING even remotely going on in the atmosphere that resembles that winter. That’s our tax dollars hard at work.
Okay… I am off my soapbox!
Have a great day and take care.
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Wow nobody has yet to disagree with Chris hmmm maybe its to early
I personally am sick and tired of the salt trucks and the mess they leave around. Salty slush everywhere. Salt rusting my Jeep. Salt all over your clothes. Nastiness tracked through the house. Just a mess everywhere. I’m tired of it. Bring on Spring…bring on thunderstorms!!
as long as the Tstorms stay in you front yard you can have them buddy 😉
Put the salt on your Green Beans and French Fries and Bring ON THE SNOW! I think we need ALOT more Snow
yep, I was thinking the same thing…lol… the northern hemisphere as a whole was cold, and snowy but that wont get near the attention that a little warm up will get…you watch next week IF it does warm up, thats all you’ll hear about, blah,blah,blah…MAJOR WARM UP IN THE PLAINS, WINTER IS OVER!…and on and on..
Those folks may have to crawl in the burrows with the Groundhogs on G-day!! to get away from the MOBS!!…lol…
SPEAKING OF GROUNDHOGS!!!!…I wonder how ole “BLUEGRASS BUBBA” is doing? getting ready for 6more weeks of sleep I hope….:)
yeah about 2 ft more 😀 Wash your jeep more often it won’t rust ;0
here is a few nuggets from J.B. this morning, to add to what chis said also about the returning cold/stormy Feb. ahead of us…
It looks like we reach a tipping point by the 25th. From 2-4 weeks later, there should be severe cold in much of the Eastern and Central parts of the nation again… Another step down to the abyss.
and then this….
weakening El Ninos are notoriously cold in February, and this strat warm, as long as we understand it’s a step down, not a crash to cold, should have the nation writhing in the icy grip of winter’s worst for a 10- to 15-day period in February. We should be stormy and warm, stormy and colder, then darn cold and stormy, if one looks at the next 30 days in day increments
You can’t wash it when it’s been below freezing for two weeks with snow almost every day and the salt crews acting like we live in Alaska. 🙂
Knox co. schools arent the only one’s who havent been back to school since Dec. 18th…here is an article about a county in east tn. in the same boat…or should I say sled..:) the only difference is they went back today knox is still out!!!
http://proa.accuweather.com/adcbin/professional/news-weather-features.asp
Hey Tim find out for sure if the kiddos will be out Monday for Holiday some school districts are going because of missing so much school already
sure you can you just may not be able to get into it the next morning LOL 😉 but it can be done 😀
this is true..I took the wife’s van to just try to spray some of the salt off 2 days ago, and the carwash was like a skating rink, and the water was freezing on contact, so that was almost an hopeless situation…needless to say today or tomorrow, it will get the nice indoor,warm,automatic wash job in London…lol.. hand Tire scrub, hand windshield wash,then automatic wash,rust treatment, wax, dried, then hand dried all for 10 bucks!!! I’m a regular…:) For those of you who would like to try it out in the area, its next to London Wal-Mart, and Golden Corral…
this off the snowday website..
Pattern 20th-26th – During this pattern, the jet stream will move well south into the Western United States. After a almost non existant rainy season in the western and California region, Heavy Rainfall, possibly Historic will increase there with storm system after storm system increasing in strength and in intensity. Mountain and valley snowfall will also be increasing as well. Much warmer temperatures will occur over the Central and Eastern United States as the jet stream starts to buckle south and create a storm track that will go through the Central Plains. Now this isnt the ordinary type of storms we have seen this winter, warm weather will be present ahead of this storm system, thus much of the storm system will produce Rain/Thunderstorms and even some possible Severe Storms for the Southern Plains and Southeastern United States. Areas that receive any substantial rainfall in the Central Plains will receive extensive flooding of the rivers and possible Ice Jams. This pattern in the west will eventually evolve into the Central US as well as remain and active pattern through February and eventually the storm system will transpire into Snowstorms once again after the 26th of this month and through February as the necessary cold source will be present.
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Looks like California better get ready to be washed away, Mid-mississippi valley get ready for serious ICE JAM FLOODING!!..and severe weather to boot…anyone ready for a tranquil spring and summer yet???
I actually heard today, that they are seriously considering extending the school day by 30 min to an hr. to make up the time…dont know about monday yet…
If you buy their gift certificates you can get 6 washes for the price of 4. That’s what I always do.
Thanks Chris for the update. I keep trying to tell people that the warmup won’t last long, but they don’t want to believe me. LOL
It is nice to get some sunshine, and a little rain to wash the salt away will be good as well.
Folks… there is NOTHING even remotely going on in the atmosphere that resembles that winter. That’s our tax dollars hard at work.
Nobody told chris that Obama hired a weather czar to control our weather.
Thanks for updating Chris. We are already at 34, with partly cloudy skies. Yesterday, it took us until about 3:30 to hit 34, and it was short-lived. I will take the break to get time for the rain to wash some of the salt off the roads, (and for me to get it off my car, as well!)
Looks like the next few days are at least going to be near normal. Ah well, thats the good thing about the weather in KY…..if you don’t like it, stick around, and it will change! (unless you are in central or EKY and want a BIG snow….right Bubba? ) 😉 jk.
Have a GREAT day, everyone!
LOL….:)
Looks like we are going to get cold again after next week, so I am planning to enjoy the few days without wearing my long johns to work. But, if it decides to dump a big one on us during that time, then, that will be alright, too! 😉
you can keep your thunderstorms. I hate servere weather, tornados can really destroy us if were caught just right in there path. honesly thunderstorms scare me to death and i dont look forward to them at all
we’ve cracked 40* !!!!….lol..
and might as well start thinking about FLASH FLOODING for the sunday,monday system, esp. in the hills of east ky…Ground is still froze, there are shady places where snow looks just like it did the day it fell…soooo frozen ground,snow melt heavy rain = MAJOR RUN OFF, and FLASH FLOODING!!!..just a thought
What a beautiful day out there today! As much as I loved the weather last weekend, I’m glad to see the sunshine. Too bad it won’t be the case this weekend. I loved to have a sunny weekend instead of cold rain!
don’t forget that the snow never had alot of moisture content
That is out tax dollars hard at work trying to inject GW back into people’s minds 😉
Were having a heat wave!!! a tropical heatwave!!!..well maybe not to that extent but 48* and sunshine is a heatwave after days of snowshowers, and teens and 20’s for highs…actually got a good run in today first time in over a week, and it about killed me too…LOL.
They do an awesome job there, don’t they! 🙂
O.K…even though i know someone out there will have a tizzy over it, I think most of us are all in the same ballpark with this issue…if your into GW dont watch!!
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3968192/search-for-the-dead#/v/3962936/frozen-gore-protests-former-vp/?playlist_id=87285
you gotta admit it is funny…LOL…
ha ha jackass. Although I’m sure Vice President Gore doesn’t know any more than you and the talking point bobbleheads on Clusterfox news. I’ll put something on later!!! And if you’re a batsh*t crazy rightwing loon, don’t watch!!!!!!!
ha ha jackass. Although I’m sure Vice President Gore doesn’t know any more than you and the talking point bobbleheads on Clusterfox news. I’ll put something on later!!! And if you’re a batsh*t crazy rightwing loon, don’t watch!!!!!!! Do I have to read this rightwing garbage when we come on here to check Chris’s Weather Blog?
Although I’m sure Vice President Gore doesn’t know any more than you and the talking point bobbleheads on Clusterfox news. I’ll put something on later!!! And if you’re a batsh*t crazy rightwing loon, don’t watch!!!!!!! Do I have to read this rightwing garbage when we come on here to check Chris’s Weather Blog?
I thought the thermometer in the Jeep was broken when it showed 48 after lunch today…but nope…it’s almost 50 now!
nobody makes you click on any links you don’t even have to ready anybody’s comments just what Chris posts so the answer is no you don’t have you it was you that chose to click that link and read it 😉
Mesonet says 51 Timmy
You don’t *have* to do anything in life except pay taxes and die. Reading comments on a blog is entirely optional. 😉
no school till Tuesday for the kiddos in Knox County
DONT READ IT THEN…LOOK OVER IT!!! NOBODY IS FORCING YOUR HAND THERE BUDDY!!! YOU SHOWING YOUR IGNORANCE IS QUITE PATHETIC…IT IS WEATHER RELATED…NOT POLITICAL !!!
Frankly I find your comment a personal attack, and offensive…I have been posting comments on this blog since the blog was started, and NEVER, NEVER have I had such an offensive reply to something that is weather related !!!…MAN YOU NEED TO GROW UP!!!
Things have gotten so twisted in the lst few years that if a media outlet DOESN’T support a liberal line then they are considered biased. The bias is now the “balance” and the balance has become the “bias”. Strange world we live in…
THANK YOU MIKE!!
18z shows some colapsing cold as the storm departs, probably not enough to cause any snow though…
Monday can’t be used for a make-up day due to it being the law that it is a holiday. That’s what we were told in our district.
could have swore there was some district in KY using it as a make up day it was on the news i think yesterday but dun remember which one
Rightwing garbage from Fox News doesn’t belong on a weather blog, no matter what you “fair and balanced” think. I don’t see you posting anything with the other point of view. And you don’t see me posting video making fun of Dumbya or Cheney and saying that “most of us agree on it”.
Mike, I could not agree with you more!
you were right somebody did get thier panties in a wad lol
Shame on you pot stirrer ;0
Hasn’t anyone told the folks in Alaska and Fox News that global warming is the cause for their 30 below temperatures?
Charlie Brown quote… “There is 3 things we can’t discuss with people. Politics, Religion, & The Great Pumpkin!!”
CB, you rock, but plenty of snow? We did have plenty of cold, but only a small section of our beloved state has had plenty of snow this winter. That said, our cold air kept the few inches around a long time.
Everything is relative, so the total four inches Richmond has had from three mini events is plenty to my chihuahua Flower.
I expect the warmer air to hang on a while- at least until the good precipitation passes 😉
CB, you ROCK, but plenty of snow? We did have plenty of cold, but only a small section of our beloved state has had plenty of snow this winter. That said, our cold air kept the few inches around a long time.
Everything is relative, so the total four inches Richmond has had from three mini events is plenty to my chihuahua Flower.
I expect the warmer air to hang on a while- at least until the good precipitation passes over 😉
Well, Wxman, I thought the same thing when my Santa Fe said 46 at lunch. sure was pretty out there today.
As far as the earlier comments…..well, lets just say ……and leave it at that. 😉
Chris, what is your thinking on when the next cooldown starts? Or, wxman, or Mitch, or whoever…winter ain’t over by a long shot, just taking a short “coffee” break! Have a good night all.
Bernie, I LOVE the Charlie Brown remark…GOOD GRIEF!!! 😀
We dont post anything with the other point of view because its all bunch of B.S is why.
Wow it was 52 earlier today in Knox county and its already down to 29 and thats with some cloud cover
Oh, wingnut central it is.
hit 45 here in highland heights today, temps are not always the determining factor for me, i just love no breeze and strong sun. i want more snow but only if it is 8”+ storms that way schools are more likely to cancel. 3 or 4 inches at this point just causes inconvienence.
it will be interesting to see where the pattern goes about this time next week…will we stay mild and misty or will the cold take over again? I am all for cold but I want a big snow if its going to be 10 with 20mph winds!!! my gut tells me winter returns even worse than we have seen it before climatically our coldest time of year is later jan early feb so we’ll see.
Well if what the HPC says is really true about a huge pattern reversal taking hold, most of us in kentucky will be experiencing a warm and snowy winter! 😉
looks like some over-running precip. showing up on radar tonight..mix?
Kill all liberals.
Espasacally that communist nigger obama.
Global warming is the biggest fraud and everyone except his dumbass knows it.
I suggest everyone watch more fox news for the TRUTH.
My last comment got put into moderation but everyone knows that communist nigger obama keeps propagating the global warming myth. Nice to see some people here recognize the TRUTH.
Would someone please remove the offensive post?????? I just want to read about the weather!!!
Nice, you ignorant little tool
I don’t mind reading about things other than weather on this blog. But these things shouldn’t be offensive. That’s just wrong. I hope others don’t get carried away to the point that Chris doesn’t allow us to post. Thanks for the dedication to the blog Chris.
Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, You need to learn how to disagree with a little more class. In your case a lot more class.
that’s very offensive please refrain from comments like this in the future if you’re not banned.
Yes, that comment is really offensive. We don’t need that sort of thing here.