Good Thursday, folks. We have a very wild weekend of weather taking shape across our part of the world. A potent storm system will likely bring record warmth and a big blast of winds our way. It’s a pattern that doesn’t look very much like December, but December signs are showing up later next week and beyond.
Before we get to the weekend, we have some very mild weather to close out the week. Temps today will generally hit the low 60s with a mix of sun and clouds. There’s the smallest shower chance. As the real deal warm air moves in Friday, clouds and a better chance for showers will be with us.
Highs this weekend will likely flirt with 70 degrees across much of Kentucky. A few spots could even be warmer than that. Record highs are almost a certainty at this point.
70s in December aren’t as rare as you think. This would make the 6th December out of the last 10 to feature 70 degree temps in Kentucky.
With the storm system rolling in later Sunday into Monday, high winds are likely to become a big issue…
Gusts from 40mph to 50mph will be possible during this time. A line of “low-topped” showers and thunderstorms will race eastward as the storm system works across our region. A few strong storms are a possibility and that’s something to watch for.
Another system shows up on the scene by next Wednesday and Thursday. This one has much more of a wintertime air mass coming in behind it. Several models continue to develop some kind of winter weather maker along this boundary. Here’s the GFS…
The Canadian at roughly the same time…
Looking farther down the road, there is still hope for some more winter weather before Christmas. The European Ensembles snowfall forecast through Christmas Eve…
I’m sure the look of that will change with the next run, but it keeps hope alive. 😉
The new CFS Ensembles snowfall forecast through the middle of January shows winter kicking into high gear later this month into the first half of January…
That would certainly match some of those computer generated analog years I posted a few updates ago. Regardless… it’s still just something fun for us to look at.
I will have another update later today. Enjoy your Thursday and take care.
It would be nice to see some snow before February, then BAMM!!! February unleashes the winter beast like last year. If my memory serves me correctly…and it always does with weather…I only had received 3 and 1/2 of snow for winter total through late January last year; I went on to receive right at 40 inches by the first week of March–never snowed after the first Friday in March of last year. So, I got over 30 inches of snow last year from the last week of January through the 4 short weeks of February.
There is hope out though you winter lover enthusiasts.
Uh, no. Things get really ugly around here when we go that far into winter without any real snow on the ground.
Can’t wait to see what lies ahead! Thanks for all that you do!
6z run of the GFS was a beauty..Long way out so won’t get MERRY yet..
The 6z GFS has a good look for a white Christmas.
Yes, please, on the GFS next week! Rodger in Dodger!
Bleh. That run of the Canadian model puts the sleet/ice zone uncomfortably close to our area.
Getting excited about these long range snow possibilities! My snow juices are certainly flowing first the first time in a while!
thru the end of Dec ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS, so forget bout white Christmas. that sucks but the models don’t lie as of now..
Gee, buddy…..what happened to your “old skool Christmas”? LOL
I hope Chris is right.But someone is getting info from different sources. The TV and Internet weather sites are keeping the warm air ruling into January.
The 12z GFS is back to showing rain for Christmas week with two big systems. Why am I not surprised. Waffles anyone? 😉
Waffles with plenty of non frozen liquid to wash them down with!
Or with our luck in north-central Tennessee, it will be freezing rain 🙁 .
In the meantime, this warm weather fan is enjoying the current un-winterlike temperatures 🙂 .
This weather is crazy but awesome. How often do you get sunny and 70 on a weekend in mid December?