Good Friday everyone. We are getting ready for the weekend and what promises to be some wild weather for this time of the year. The headline says it all as our weather out there today will be straight out of April before the big chill settles in for the weekend and strengthens over the next week.

Highs Today will be well into the 60s with some areas reaching the 70 degree mark. Winds will increase from the southwest and this will be a very moist flow that will lead to another round of soaking rains and possibly some thunderstorms later this evening into early Saturday. Here is a regional radar for you to track the rains…



Low pressure will be developing along our front as it crosses Kentucky tonight. This will mean the winds will really crank with gusts that can reach 35mph into the first half of Saturday. As mentioned… this should be a nice soaker. Here is what I am expecting…



The front will be moving through the region when you wake up Saturday morning with the map looking like this…



A wind driven rain will be with us into early Afternoon Saturday. Much colder air will be filtering in all day long with highs for the day actually coming in the wee hours of the morning. Temps will be falling into the mid 30s during the evening hours from west to east. Rain showers will begin to mix with and change to snow showers. Those snow showers will then be with us through the night…



The maps I made for you above show the low deepening as it heads to the north. Some of the model runs of late have been showing some decent backlash snow showers into the state and this is something we will have to watch for. Regardless… the northwesterly flow will bring lake effect snow showers and flurries into the state with the potential for the first coating of snow in some areas… especially in the east.

The NAM forecast model is actually showing some accumulations…



PLEASE don’t take that map as the gospel!!! As of now… only a coating should be expected at most across the state.

Sunday will be a cold day with highs in the 30s with snow showers and flurries ending.

Monday will see yet another cold air blast heading toward us. The air with this one will be colder than our weekend temps and the flow should be good enough to produce rain and snow showers later Monday with snow showers and flurries Monday night and Tuesday…



This another “coating” threat system that has a better chance to be a tad more. Highs Tuesday will be in the low and mid 30s.

That cold air trough will be lifting out Wednesday as temps bump back up into the lower 40s for highs. That won’t lats very long as another blast moves in Thursday. The air behind this one will be the coldest of the season so far and it should produce a good outbreak of snow showers…

Thursday


I have mentioned this before… but this system digging in for the end of next week into the weekend has a shot at developing a storm across the eastern half of the country. Several different model runs have shown this from time to time in recent days.

The above maps show an air mass that can produce sub freezing highs and teens for lows.

I will have the first video forecast of the blog on at some point this weekend. It won’t be much… but we have to start out somewhere!

Have a great Friday and I will update things later this evening or tonight so be sure to check back.

Until then… take care and GO BIG BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!